Transcript Statistical System of Pakistan - United Nations Statistics Division

In the name of Allah, the most
beneficent and merciful
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Statistical System
of
Pakistan
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MISSION STATEMENT
Statistics Division is committed to
provide accurate, reliable, timely,
comprehensive and user-friendly
data to national & international
organizations
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STATISTICAL SYSTEM OF
PAKISTAN
The Statistical System Of Pakistan is a combination of both
the centralized and de-centralized systems. At the federal
level, it consists of Statistics Division and its attached
departments and a few other statistical cells working in
other Ministries/Divisions to meet their specific data
requirements. Provincial Bureaus of Statistics are
responsible for collection, compilation and dissemination of
data on provincial subjects as well as coordination among
statistical
cells
functioning
in
various
provincial
departments.
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Statistical System
Federal Level
 Statistics Division (FBS, PCO, ACO)
 Statistical Cells in different Ministries /
Divisions as well as in SBP, CBR, etc
Provincial Level
 Bureaus of Statistics
 Statistical Cells in different Departments
Local Governments
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Statistical acts/Ordinance
•The General Statistics Act,1975
Provides for constitution of National Coordination Statistical Council.
(NSC) and statistics Authority (s) and collection and Coordination of
General Statistics
•The industrial Statistics Act, 1942
Provides for appointment of Statistics Authority (s) by the Provincial
Governments for collection of Industrial statistics
• The Agricultural Census Act, 1958
Provides for conduct of Census related surveys, appointment of Census
Commissioner and other Officers for the purpose
•The Census (Population and Housing) Ordinance, 1959
Provides for conduct of Census related surveys, appointment of Census
Commissioner and other Officers for the purpose
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Statistics Division
Statistics Division was established in
1973 by upgrading the then Central
Statistical Office (CSO).
Attached departments are:
 Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS)
 Population Census Organization (PCO)
 Agricultural Census Organization (ACO)
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Federal Statistical Cells
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Ministry
Ministry
Ministry
Ministry
Ministry
Ministry
of
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of
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Food & Agriculture
Industries
Health
Population Welfare
Education
Labour & Manpower
 Ministry of Finance
 Ministry of Interior
 Ministry of Tourism
Agriculture Statistics
Industrial Production
Health Statistics
Population Welfare
Education Statistics
Social Securities, Wages,
Overseas Manpower
Employment
Budget, Eco. Survey
Crimes, Traffic Accidents
Tourism Statistics
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Federal Statistical Cells
 Ministry of Information
News paper circulation,
Periodicals, dramas, films
released
 Ministry of Sports & Culture
Sports statistics
 Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Resources
Mining Statistics
 Economic Affairs Division
Foreign Eco. Assistance
 Central Board of Revenue
Revenue, Industrial
Production
 State Bank of Pakistan
Money & Banking,
Balance of Payments
 National Database & Registration Authority
Population Statistics
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Organizational Chart of FBS
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Provincial Organizations
• Agriculture Departments
Agriculture Statistics
• Bureaus of Statistics
Industrial Production
• Education Departments
Education Statistics
• Health Departments
Health Statistics
• Ind. & Mining Departments
Mining Statistics
• Excise & Taxation Department Transport Statistics
• Labour & Manpower Department
Labour Statistics
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Functions of
Population Census Organization (PCO)
• Planning and execution of decennial
Population & Housing Census.
• Processing and dissemination of data in the
form of Census Reports.
• Analysis of census data and demographic
research.
• Evaluation of census results.
• Intercensal sample studies/surveys in
related areas.
• Supply of census data to the data users.
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Functions of
Agricultural Census Organizing (ACO)
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Determination the Scope and Formulation of
Questionnaires
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Designing of Sample and Sample Selection
• Preparation of Central Schedule and
development of Manuals of instruction.
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Laying down Census/Survey Methodology
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Training of Field Staff and Census Enumeration
(Field Operation)
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Manual editing, coding and data entry
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Functions of
Agricultural Census Organizing (ACO)
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Computer Edit, quality control and Tabulation,
Quality control
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Preparation and printing to Reports
All these activities are undertaken in respect of
the following:
• Agricultural and Livestock Censuses
(Decennial)
• Agricultural Machinery Census (Decennial)
• Village-wise Census (Quinquennial)
• Rural Credit Survey (Ad hoc)
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TRAINING
WING
FEDERAL
BUREAU OF
STATISTICS
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MAIN FUNCTIONS OF
TRAINING WING
i.
To plan, organize and conduct training courses periodically
for statistical personnel of various levels.
ii.
To cater training requirements of statistical personnel
working in Statistics Division and its attached departments
and other federal and provincial government organizations
and cells.
iii. To hold workshops and seminars on important topics in the
field of statistics and allied subjects.
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MAIN FUNCTIONS OF
TRAINING WING
i.
To assess training requirements of statistical personnel
working in Statistics Division, its attached departments and
provincial governments.
v.
To promote cooperation with other departments,
universities, and national & international agencies for
sharing of knowledge and promotion of research activities.
vi. To disseminate information and extend advice to the
government and other agencies for improvement of
statistical activities in Pakistan.
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Existing Arrangements of
Training Wing
• Structural changes in the past. Presently a
wing of FBS.
• 2521 employees trained since 1989
• Trainees include employees of FBS, PCO,
ACO, Bureaus of Statistics and other
departments/Universities.
• DFID, GTZ and UNFPA are major donors to
finance trainers of international repute
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Training Bottlenecks
Training courses being conducted without
proper assessment of training needs
with the result that:
– Training activity need to be co-related with
exact operational requirements, and
– Impact of training on organizational and
individual performance and achievement of
objectives need to be measured.
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FUTURE PLAN
Continuation of regular in-service training programmes
for enhancing the professional and technical capabilities of
working statisticians.
To cater future training needs of working statisticians
serving in Statistics Division, its attached departments and
other federal and provincial government statistical
organizations.
Training of provincial government employees in the
field of agricultural, industrial, education and health statistics to
improve the quality of statistics produced by them.
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FUTURE PLAN
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To arrange International level training courses,
seminars and workshops in collaboration with SIAP,
UNFP, USAID, ILO World Bank and other
international organizations.
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To improve interaction between Training Wing and
other academic institutions for improving training
activities.
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To raise the status of Training Wing to that of
Training institute and arrangements for their
training
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Improving Coordination in National
Statistical System
• Current Status:
• National and Provincial Statistical Councils responsible forr
coordination for all statistical matters
• Panels and technical committees have been revised formed
for each major activity. Representation of private sector,
NGOs, provincial Government enhanced
• Meeting of the panels / Technical Committees are regularly
being held before conducting of Survey/census for
finalization of question/material
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Future Plan
• Series of Workshops are planned in the Provincial
Capitals and businessmen, Chambers of Commerce
and industries, NGOs, Politicians to familiarized
about the working of Statistical Organization, to
cooperate in providing information for establishment
based surveys/census
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Key issues
1. The meetings of National statistical council are not held
regularly due to non-availability of proper agenda which is to
be presented for policy decisions at the NSC
2. Main problem is in collection of establishment based data,
the coverage for such type of surveys/censuses remain
always low
3. The findings of such studies/surveys are generalized by
donor agencies and other users for the Country or Province.
These create doubts and miss-understanding when
compared with the findings of the National Level
Surveys/studies
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Key issues
4. There is lack of research and detailed analysis of
the data available through censuses/Surveys
5. There is lack of understanding of statistical data
specially price indices and labour statistics among
the policy makers/politicians and media
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Autonomy of National Statistical
Officers
• Current Status:
• Under the present system the three main
organizations FBS, PCO, and ACO enjoying working
Autonomy with.
• Limited Financial and Administrative autonomy
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Future Plan
• Government has decided for the re-structuring of
the existing Statistical Organization to make it an
independent organization
• Draft law has been prepared providing full
autonomy to proposed Pakistan Bureau of statistics
headed by Chief Statistician
• Law is to be submitted to Cabinet for approval
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Key issues
1. Complete autonomy in terms of financial and administrative
matters could not be exercised when all finances are being
provided by the government. According to existing financial
rules, the government rules and regulations are to be followed
where government financing is 50% or more.
2. To change the status from pure government to autonomous
of the existing employees create panic among them, as they
have to loose all facilities available to government servants like
pension, medical and housing facilities etc. Besides merger of
three different sister organizations into one also creates
problems of seniority and promotion. Being the oldest
organizations most of the employees having service of more
than 15 years at the average.
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Key issues
3. Most critical issue is of having experienced persons from the
open market as no other organizations/institutions have such
specific activities.
4. Besides salary structure of the National Statistical
Organizations do not attract highly qualified persons (Ph.Ds)
working abroad or in other international agencies in the
country.
5. The existing employees have very little chance for improving
their qualification due to lack of training facilities for higher
education, most of the senior officers who had foreign training/
higher education are retiring and their replacement is not
available which creates shortage of staff at the senior level.
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How can we increase users
engagement
• Current Status:
• To increase user engagement an open data dissemination
policy has been adopted
• All Survey reports, price, trade and industrial indices up
loaded on web-site
• Users produces workshops are being arranged
• Various technical committees/panel membership has been
revised, more participation from Private sectors, NGOs
Academia is ensured
• Micro level data of various surveys provided on request
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Future Plan
• To enhance credibility of data produce by Statistical
organization restructuring and full autonomy is
proposed to get users confidence of Statistics
provided by the organization
• Capacity building projects are signed with GTZ and
DFID
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Key issues
1. To increase users engagement it is very important
to have credibility and faith of the users of the
statistics generated by the National Statistical
Organization. However, at present there is lack of
credibility among the users.
2. Most of the potential users do not know the working
of National Statistical Organization and not aware
about the sources & availability of information they
require
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Key issues
3. Lack of understanding about the statistical
terms/methods/sampling etc. among users, specially the senior
managers in government, politicians and media persons. Due to
the lack of knowledge they pass negative comments on the
figures released by the organization, which affect the credibility
of the data. The users, therefore, hesitate to use the statistics.
4. Users demands are not met in terms of detailed information
at the district, village or gross route level for various indicators
such a Labour Statistics, Demographic Statistics, Industrial
Statistics, Health Statistics etc due to lack of resources as most
of the surveys are conducted at the National and Provincial
levels.
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How useful are administrative data for
statistical purposes
• Current Status:
• Administrative data is being collected from
Secondary Sources and presented in various
publications
• The data on education, health, family planning can
be used for statistics proposed by developing rates
and ratios in comparison with population
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Key issues
1. The data is collected from the public sector, private sector
data is not available in most of the cases, besides data not
available in desired format
2. To have proper administrative data, the data collecting
agencies needs resources, manpower and experience
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Role of National Statistical Officers in
analysis including micro data
1.There is open policy of data dissemination. All micro level
data of sample Surveys is being provided to users on
demand for detailed analysis including International
Agencies, NGOs, Universities researchers/students.
2. To involve Statistical Organization specific training for the
staff is required for data analysis/research.
3. Research Wing/sections may be established in each
Statistical Organization
4. The research organization asking for data may involve the
Statistician for analysis work to enhance capability of the
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incumbent.