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GLOBAL ASSESSMENT OF STATISTICAL SYSTEM OF
KAZAKHSTANZHASLAN OMAROVDEPUTY CHAIRMAN,
STATISTICS AGENCY OF REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN
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Assessment of Statistics of Kazakhstan

• 2002-2003 - Eurostat and UN ECE
• 2007-2008 Joint mandate of UN ECE and UN ESCAP

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Why Global Assessment of the statistical system
of Kazakhstan?

• Analysis of the system and statistics development
  plans
• The relevant direction and assessment of the
  modern trends and the best practices in the area
  of statistics

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Legislation Law on Statistics, professional
independence, coordination within the statistical
system, the Council of Statistics,
confidentialityNational statistical system
principles, structure, dissemination policy,
interaction with the government and other users,
access to administrative sourcesNational
Statistical Office internal organisation and
mission, planning, HR, ITStatistical
Infrastructure registers, demographic
statistics, household budget surveys, business
statistics, agricultural statistics, prices,
national accounts and other areas.
The main areas of assessment
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State Council of Statistics headed by
Prime Minister of Republic of Kazakhstan (the
first meeting was held on 12 July
2008)Development of the Agencys Strategic Plan
for 2009-2011 (approved with government
resolution N 1188 as of 20 December
2008)Development of the draft Law of Republic
of Kazakhstan On the State StatisticsEstablishme
nt of the Agencys Centre for Training and
Research (The Information and Computing Centre
for Training and Research of the Statistics
Agency of Republic of Kazakhstan was established
with order ?153-? on 27 November 2008)System of
Quality Management (the agency has been certified
as meeting requirements of state ISO 9001-2001
standard)
Recommendations of the Assessment and
implementation
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Also interaction with users

• The target
• The level of satisfaction with the statistics
  quality by 70 in 2009
• The satisfaction with the statistics quality at
  the level of leading EU countries - 85 by 2011
• The current situation
• 35.5 of users consider official statistical data
  fully reliable (1076 respondents)
• 66.2 of users are satisfied with the Agencys
  work (962 respondents)
• In 2007 about 50 of respondents of the sample
  survey (2000 persons) were fully satisfied with
  the Agencys work

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statistical infrastructure
Statistical indicators Increase in the
number, level of details Improvement of
timeliness Access and user-friendly dissemination
of the existing information Access to
data Better use of mass media as a channel for
statistics dissemination Less non-efficient paper
publications Expansion of electronic
dissemination (mailing, access to databases,
online information) Training to users in correct
interpretation of data and understanding of the
applied methodologies Additional
activities Interaction with users and
respondents Involvement of international experts
in the improvement of quality of work
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Process of production of statistical indicators
1-6 months
depending on the survey
NEED
DEVELOPMENT
IMPLEMENTATION
COLLECTION
PROCESSING
ANALYSIS
Dissemination
Identified requirements to information
Action plan
Development of collection system
Identification of respondents for data collection
Electronic data processing
Data analysis
Confirmation of data quality
Defined and documented need
Survey methodology
Development of technological solutions
Contacts with respondents
Preparation of publications
Data dissemination management
Scanned data processing
Planning and budgeting
Delivery of questionnaires and guidelines
Corrections of entered data
Interpretation
Preparation and publication
Development of software
Questionnaires and guidelines
Obtaining financial resources
Quality requirements
Testing technological solutions
Obtaining data
Data processing (estimation)
Preparation to dissemination
Processing of users requests
Registration of the developments in the NPA
Clean data
End of collection
Statistics quality control
Implementation of solutions
Updated requirements (transfer to )
In 2008 processes of needs identification, as
well as development and production of statistics
were certified as those meeting requirements of
ISO 90002001 The plan is to ensure the
international quality level for all Agencys
works by 2011
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and updating the planning system
Statistical data release calendar Indicator, its
breakdown (which information, which details) and
the date for release (when) Dissemination of the
calendar of primary statistical information
submission by respondents Respondents
participating in statistical surveys (who should
submit the information) deadlines (when), the way
of submitting returns, responsible agencies
(Statistics Agency or other authorities) Plan of
statistical activities Activities of the
Statistics Agency to meet users needs for data
(Dissemination calendar) Work with data sources
at the regional level (data submission) Operationa
l and budget plans
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