NSDS National Strategy for the Development of Official Statistics

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NSDSNational Strategy for the Development of
Official Statistics

• Seminar of the World Bank
• and
• The Ministry of Statistics and Analysis
• 15 16 March 2007

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What is NSDS ?

• the target model of the national system of
  official statistical (NSS) of the country and
  methods of its dynamic updating,
• the roadmap of driving the NSS from existing
  statistical system into the direction determined
  by the target model,
• the methods and approaches of anticipating
  adjustment of the NSS to social, political,
  economic and technological changes of the country
  in global, more opened, market - driven economy,
  
• the ways of coherent development of the NSS as an
  integral part of the information infrastructure
  of the country
• approaches and practical action to implementing
  international standards

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What is NSDS ?

• approaches to optimization of the resources for
  official statistical activities by all
  stakeholders of statistical processes,
• resources (staff, finances, infrastructure, ICT)
  needed for the realization of the framework
  program,
• strategic actions necessary for effective
  implementing of the program of development of
  official statistics,
• effective implementing and use of modern ICT for
  optimizing statistical production processes
• methods of monitoring and auditing the progresses
  of development of statistics

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Transition of official statistics

• Continuation
• Continuity

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Dimensions of transition of the national system
of official statistics statistical capacity
building in the following dimensions

• Institutional dimension
• Economic dimension
• Social dimension
• Methodological dimension
• Technological dimension
• International dimension

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Transitional dimensions (1)

• Institutional dimension legal and
  organizational frameworks of official statistics
  adjusted to the changes of the functions of
  governments, regulations of businesses and other
  institutions, strengthening institutional
  capacities of the NSS,
• Economic dimension from the statistical system
  incorporated to the administrative information
  systems supporting the model of centrally-planned
  economy to the statistical system of the national
  economy specific to Belarus in its process of
  transition from centrally planned economy to
  market driven planned economy (planovo
  rynotshnaya ekonomika) with stepwise growing
  share and role of market processes.

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Transitional dimensions (2)

• Social dimension from state statistics ad the
  information support of the governmental
  organizations providing social services,
  controlled by the state or directly realized by
  governments, into the system providing
  information to the society and important segment
  of social information security network.
• Methodological dimension from statistical
  system based on MPS standards and administrative
  information standards of governments and state
  owned enterprises, to the system coherent with
  global methodological standards.

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Transitional dimensions (3)

• Technological dimension from paper driven
  data collection from reporting units,
  processing and dissemination of data in the forms
  of paper publications to integrated statistical
  information system working in modern ICT
  environment, with wide use of computerized
  administrative records as the sources of primary
  data for statistical compilations, storage and
  processing of data using modern database
  technologies and dissemination of data and
  metadata via ICT networks.
• International dimension strengthening the
  integration of the NSS with the global system of
  official statistics and tight cooperation with
  international statistical organizations and
  services.