Workshop on the organization of National Statistical Systems and userproducer relations for countrie

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Workshop on the organization of National
Statistical Systems and user-producer relations
for countries in South Asian

• Colombo, Sri Lanka
• 21-24 July, 2008 Country paper presented By
• Md. Abul Kashem, Deputy DG
• SM Shawkat Ali, Director
• Salima Sultana, Deputy Director
• Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics
• Ministry of Planning
• Bangladesh

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Introduction In August 1974, Bangladesh
Bureau of Statistics (BBS) was created by Merging
four statistical agencies, namely, the Bureau of
Statistics, the Bureau of Agriculture statistics,
the Agriculture census Commission and the
population census Commission. BBS is the lone
national statistical organization (NSO)
responsible to collect, compile, disseminate and
publish official statistics.
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Organizational set up of BBS
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Main functions of BBS

• To organize and conduct national censuses
• To organize and conduct statistical surveys
• To collect, compile, analyze, disseminate and
  publish statistics of all sectors of the economy
  for meeting needs of development planning,
  research and decision making
• To conduct research and develop standards
• To compile and publish information on national
  accounts

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Improving co-ordination in National Statistical
System

• Existing ways of improving coordination
• 1. Included the members of important public
  departments, autonomous bodies, research and
  professional societies, technical, steering and
  coordination committee on censuses and surveys
  also the National Statistical Council.
• 2. For users- Producers interaction, seminar cum
  expert consultation are held before each of the
  census and survey and also for the dissemination
  of the census and survey results.

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Future Plan 1. To increase co-ordination among
different ministries, agencies, and others
arranging more seminars, workshops and like
these. 2. To strengthening NSC. 3. To establish
offices to all districts (field level) 4.
Strengthening capacity building of BBS. Key
issues 1. Lack of adequate manpower of BBS at
field level. 2.Absence of active cooperation
among the various concerned agencies 3.Lack of
logistic and technical facilities of BBS.
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Autonomy of National Statistical offices

• Existing situation
• BBS is the only National Statistical
  Institution responsible for collecting, compiling
  and disseminating statistical data of all the
  sectors of Bangladesh economy to meet and
  provide the data-needs of the users for planning
  and formulating policies by the government.
• Key issues
• 1. Biasness of data
• 2. Undesirable pressure
• 3.More time required

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• How can we increase user engagement?
• Existing ways
• A well functioning and data based Website.
• Research oriented and resourceful library.
• Regular publication of key Statistical reports.
• Increased cooperation through seminar cum expert
  consultation are held before each census and
  survey and also for the dissemination of the
  census and survey results.
• BBS working for data archiving of all major
  censuses and surveys

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• Networking system is used in head quarter for
  users engagement
• Citizen charter is existent.
• Future Plan
• Arranging more seminars and workshops,
• Strengthening data Archive, library, Web site,
• Strengthening networking in field level,
• Quality outputs released in a timely manner.
• Creating statistical cells in important
  ministries.
• Key Issues
• Financial support
• Lacking of adequate human resources and
  logistics support.

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• How useful are Administrative data for
  Statistical purposes?
• Existing ways
• BBS collects administrative data from
  Government accounts, custom records on Import and
  Exports, Forest deportment, Bangladesh Road and
  Transport Authority, Bangladesh Bank, Agriculture
  Ministry, Fisheries department, Meteorology and
  so on.
• Future plan
• More usage of these types of data in different
  surveys.

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• Key issues
• (1) Incomplete and or inaccurate data and
  sometimes biased.
• (2) Some times misreporting of data occurred.
• (3) Data collection system may not be efficient.
  
• (4) Concepts definitions may not be
  International standard .

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Role of National Statistical Offices in Analysis
including the provisions of micro
data Existing Along with presentation of
data, BBS analyzes the sample surveys and
censuses at unit level data on limited basis.
In every census, separate analytical report is
also included. Future Plan Due to increasing
demand by the policy makers/users, the
organization should plan to analyze micro data on
different censuses.
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Develop thematic core groups in health,
environment, gender etc. to build capacity for
need-driven analysis of policy planning. Key
issues (1) Need 0f capacity building including
in specific areas. (2) Constraint extra
resources for separate analysis of micro
data. (3) Absence of web-based data repository
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Adjusting the national Statistical
Offices to emerging Statistical issueIt is
quite challenging issue to provide empirical
evidence by producing the temporal trend of
climate change.Issue 1. Need to set up a group
of personnel with proper training to disseminate
the data with the help of international
statistical partner organizations.2. Regional
level resource centre can be set up for appending
and analyzing data.
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Thank you All