PARIS21 Statistical Capacity Building (SCB) Indicators

1. PARIS21 Statistical Capacity Building (SCB) Indicators Presentation to PARIS21 Lucie Laliberté October, 2002

2. SCB Indicators What is their purpose? Who use them? What are they used for? What are they? How are they compiled? What do they show? Why an experimental period? Use as a management tool Main milestones of the Task Team PARIS21 Task Team on SCB indicators Members and Consultants

3. What is the purpose? Comparative overview of economies’ statistical capacity with a view to facilitate capacity building

4. Who use them? • International donor community • Domestic policy makers • Data producers

5. What are they used for? • A snapshot of a country’s statistical conditions • A focus on opportunities by highlighting strengths and weaknesses • A means to track over time results of capacity building efforts

6. What are they? • 16 quantitative indicators • government funding for current and capital operations • donor funding in terms of money and expert working days • donors involved • staff number and turnover • information and communication technology equipment: main frame, PC, network, and Internet access • the surveys and administrative records used as source data • the type of data produced, inclusive of reference date and the producing agency • the number of data releases • the format of data releases.

7. What are they? (cont’d) • 18 qualitative indicators • the legal and institutional environment, resource and management; • the professional and cultural setting; • the methodological expertise for linking data sources to the statistical products; • the population, and the surveys, survey questionnaires, and administrative data sources; • the skills and techniques to transform source data into statistical products; • the assessment and validation of source data, intermediate data, and statistical outputs; • the relevance of the statistics to social and economic concerns, including the analytical capability to confirm and identify issues • the periodicity, timing, and internal/relational consistency of the statistics; and • the methods and channels for a wide and relevant dissemination.

8. What do they show? • Quantitative indicators: • “Statistics produced” assess the goal of countries of delivering statistical products • Resources show the extent of countries’ success in obtaining resources, and their ability to use these resources in producing outputs • Qualitative indicators • Serve as measures of efficiency and effectiveness of statistical production Are the necessary prerequisites in place? Are the core statistical processes performed according to international good practices? Are statistical products relevant and accessible to data users?

9. Use as a international comparative tool: Concerns of data producers and international community taken into account • System wide application • Agency application • Data application

10. Use as a management tool: • A snapshot of a specific unit’s statistical conditions • A focus on opportunities by highlighting strengths and weaknesses in producing a specific statistic • A means to track over time results of capacity building efforts of a specific unit and/or production of a specific statistic

11. How are they compiled? • Through a self-administered questionnaire • Completed by data producers, and • Coordinated by the National statistical agency

12. Why an experimental period? • Data producers to see the usefulness of the SCB Indicators as management tool • National coordinating agency to become familiar with the SCB Indicators • The content of the SCB Indicators to be firmed up, along with the administrative procedures for their implementation

13. Main milestones of the PARIS21 Task Team on SCB Indicators

14. 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)