PARIS21 Statistical Capacity Building

(SCB) Indicators

Presentation to PARIS21

Lucie Laliberté October, 2002

What is their purpose? Who use them? What are they used for? What are they? How are they compiled? What do they show? Why an experimental period? Use as a management tool Main milestones of the Task Team PARIS21 Task Team on SCB indicators

Members and Consultants

SCB Indicators

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What is the purpose?

Comparative overview

of

economies’ statistical capacity

with a view

to facilitate capacity building

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Who use them?

International donor community

Domestic policy makers

Data producers

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What are they used for?

A snapshot of a country’s statistical conditions

A focus on opportunities by highlighting strengths and weaknesses

A means to track over time results of capacity building efforts

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What are they? 16 quantitative indicators

• government funding for current and capital operations

• donor funding in terms of money and expert working days

• donors involved

• staff number and turnover

• information and communication technology equipment: main frame, PC, network, and Internet access

• the surveys and administrative records used as source data

• the type of data produced, inclusive of reference date and the producing agency

• the number of data releases

• the format of data releases.

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What are they? (cont’d) 18 qualitative indicators

• the legal and institutional environment, resource and management;• the professional and cultural setting;• the methodological expertise for linking data sources to the

statistical products;• the population, and the surveys, survey questionnaires, and

administrative data sources;• the skills and techniques to transform source data into statistical

products;• the assessment and validation of source data, intermediate data,

and statistical outputs;• the relevance of the statistics to social and economic concerns,

including the analytical capability to confirm and identify issues• the periodicity, timing, and internal/relational consistency of the

statistics; and• the methods and channels for a wide and relevant dissemination.

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What do they show?

Quantitative indicators: • “Statistics produced” assess the goal of countries of

delivering statistical products• Resources show the extent of countries’ success in

obtaining resources, and their ability to use these resources in producing outputs

Qualitative indicators• Serve as measures of efficiency and effectiveness of

statistical productionAre the necessary prerequisites in place? Are the core statistical processes performed according to international good practices? Are statistical products relevant and accessible to data users?

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Use as a international comparative tool:

Concerns of data producers and international community taken into account

System wide application

Agency application

Data application

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Use as a management tool:

A snapshot of a specific unit’s statistical conditions

A focus on opportunities by highlighting strengths and weaknesses in producing a specific statistic

A means to track over time results of capacity building efforts of a specific unit and/or production of a specific statistic

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How are they compiled?

Through a self-administered questionnaire

Completed by data producers, and

Coordinated by the National statistical agency

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Why an experimental period?

Data producers to see the usefulness of the SCB Indicators as management tool

National coordinating agency to become familiar with the SCB Indicators

The content of the SCB Indicators to be firmed up, along with the administrative procedures for their implementation

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Main milestones of the PARIS21 Task Team on SCB Indicators

May 2001 (Meeting) Creation of the Task Team Summer 2001 Setting up Terms of Reference and Task Team membership September 2001(Meeting) Methodological approach discussed and selected October – December 2001 Strategy to develop SCB Indicators December 2001 Drafting the Framework for Determining Statistical Capacity

Building Indicators February-March 2002 Consultation with international donors (Qualitative indicators) April 2002 (Meeting) Seminar on Statistical Capacity Building Indicators consultation

with countries May-June 2002 • Follow up on seminar

• Amended qualitative indicators and quantitative indicators June 2002 (Meeting) • Interim PARIS21 meeting progress report presented along

with preliminary indicators • Testing of indicators in two countries

July – August 2002 • Refinement of Indicators • Drafting of report on SCB Indicators

September- October 2002 • Finalization of report on SCB Indicators • Dissemination of Mission report on testing

October 2002 (Meeting) Presentation of the SCB Indicators to PARIS21

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PARIS21 Task Team on SCB Indicators Members and Consultants

• Ms. Lucie Laliberté, Senior Advisor, IMF Statistics Department (Chairperson)

• Mr. Thomas Morrison Advisor, IMF Statistics Department• Mr. Jan Bové, Chief, GDDS Unit, IMF Statistics Department• Mr. Sarmad Khawaja, Senior Economist, IMF Statistics Department • Mr. Lamine Diop, Director General, AFRISTAT • Ms. Beverley Carlson, Chair, ISI Committee on Women in Statistics,

ECLAC• Mr. Jean-Etienne Chapron, Regional Adviser, UNECE• Mr. Misha Belkindas, Team Leader, World Bank• Mr. Graham Eele, Consultant/Statistician, World Bank• Ms. Makiko Harrison, PARIS21 Coordinator, World Bank• Mr. Antoine Simonpietri, Manager, PARIS21 Secretariat• Mr. David Allen (consultant)• Mr. Tim Hold (consultant)• Mr. Jan van Tongeren (consultant)