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Statistical Capacity Building
Indicators (SCBI)
January, 2003
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Background & History
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Developed by PARIS21 Task Team
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Convened by IMF
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We would like you partner on implementation:
– What are they?
– How are they compiled?
– Who will administer them?
– What do they show?
– Use as a management tool
– What we will do with them.
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What is their purpose?
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Status of statistical capacity - evidence needed.
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Assess country statistical conditions.
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Needed for advocacy, country & internationally.
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Management tool - highlight strengths & weaknesses.
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We need to assess ourselves.
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Need to monitor progress.
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A Three Part Questionnaire
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1. System-wide Indicators
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2. Agency-related Quantitative Indicators
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3. Data-related Qualitative Indicators
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1. System Wide Indicators
Simple
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What Statistics Produced
Most Recent Reference year
Which Agency Responsible
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2. Agency-related Indicators
Three Domains - 18 Quantitative Indicators
 GDP
 Population Statistics
 Household Income/Expenditure Statistics
 Optional
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Any others - countries choice
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2. Agency-related Indicators
(18 Quantitative Indicators)
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Amount government funding (current & capital)
(#2)
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Amount donor funding (money & experts)
(#2)
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Number donors involved
(#1)
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Staff numbers & turnover
(#2)
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IT equipment (computers, network, Internet, Website) (#5)
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Number of surveys, censuses and administrative sources (#3)
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Number of data releases.
(#1)
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Format of data releases.
(#1)
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Existence & year of strategic statistics plan
(#1)
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3. Data-Related Indicators
(18 Qualitative indicators…...
Assess on Scale 1- 4
Prerequisites
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Legal framework, confidentiality & enforcement
Coordination, user assessment & planning of statistics
Staff resources, pay & conditions & physical environment
Management, evaluation & change processes
Integrity
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Professional standards, independence, transparency & quality
Methodological Soundness
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Internal/relational standards met
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…….18 Qualitative Indicators)
Accuracy & Reliability
 Accuracy & validation (source data, intermediate data, outputs)
 Methodologies used
 Response monitoring
Serviceability
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User consultation, timeliness, periodicity, GDDS
User opinion sought
Accessibility
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Metadata revisions
Dissemination methods and channels
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Benchmark Descriptions
Rating Scale - Qualitative Indicators
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Level 4 = Highly Developed Statistical System
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Level 3 = Moderately Well Developed
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Level 2 = Developing with deficiencies
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Level 1 = Underdeveloped Statistical System
Each Indicator with full description for each of 4 levels
(several issues for each indicator)
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Example of Benchmark
0. Prerequisites - Statistics Law
Level 4 - Law gives agency full access to information,
responsibility to compile & disseminate; assures confidentiality,
enforced penalties for breaches of law.
Level 3 - Limited access to information, responsibility,
confidentiality, inadequate legal penalties.
Level 2 - No effective access to information, no clear responsibility,
no clear statement of confidentiality, no adequate enforcement.
Level 1 - No statistical law, no responsibility, no confidentiality, no
penalties, no enforcement.
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What do they show?
Quantitative indicators quantify:
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Statistics produced
Success in obtaining resources, ability to use them to produce
outputs
Qualitative indicators measure:
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Measures efficiency & effectiveness of statistical production
International statistical good practices followed
Policy relevant statistical products, accessible to users
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How are SCBI compiled?
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Through a self-administered questionnaire
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Completed by data producers, and
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Coordinated by the National statistical agency
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Management Tool:
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A snapshot of a specific unit’s statistical conditions
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A focus on opportunities by highlighting strengths and
weaknesses in producing a specific statistic
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A track results of capacity building efforts of a specific
unit and/or production of a specific statistic - over
time
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Users of SCBI
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International donor community
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Domestic policy makers
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Data producers
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Why Use SCBI
If you cannot measure it…..you cannot manage it!
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Advocacy Tool - measure problems - show
successes
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Statisticians can argue case for more resources using evidence
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Report regional international statistical capacity
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Experimental Period
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 West African countries asked to try out questionnaire
 Return to Abuja with completed questionnaires;
In Abuja
Report problems, solutions, reflections to PARIS21
 Advise us on familiarisation & implementation
Later in 2003
 Programme for implementation & training
 Launch with co-ordinating agency
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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)
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Further Information
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PARIS21 Secretariat:
OECD
2, rue André-Pascal, 75016 Paris, France
Phone: (33-1) 45 27 90 51
Fax:
(33-1) 45 24 90 95
http:\\www.paris21.org
e-mail: [email protected]
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