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CONFERENCE ON DATA QUALITY FOR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ROME, JULY 2008. Development of Metadata Framework for National Agricultural Statistics: Recent Experience in Asia and Middle East, and Plans for Expansion to Other Regions. FAO Statistics Division 7 July 2008.
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CONFERENCE ON DATA QUALITY FOR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ROME, JULY 2008 Development of Metadata Framework for National Agricultural Statistics: Recent Experience in Asia and Middle East, and Plans for Expansion to Other Regions FAO Statistics Division 7 July 2008
Preparation of Country Reports • Questionnaires • Annotated Outline: • National System of Agricultural Statistics • Major Domains of Selected Indicators of Agric. Stat. • Major Data Sources • Presentation at APCAS 21
Consultation and Feedbacks from Countries • Initial draft country reports reviewed by BAS/FAO Committee: comments • Modified (First) draft were discussed at Workshop, in Manila in 2006: • Gaps • Problems and difficulties • After workshop, countries revised again their reports • Revised Reports discussed at Focal Points Meeting of RDES, in Cambodia in March 2007.
Preliminary Review of Country Reports • Major publications: • yearbooks on agric. stat • Quarterly indicators of agric stat (price) • Occasional report on agricultural census/survey • Chapters on agric. stat. in national statist. yearbooks • Trade statistics
Preliminary Review of Country Reports (2) • Major Domains: • production; price; foreign trade; agricultural inputs; agric. credits; food consumption; rural communities and infrastructure • Data Sources: • agricultural census • agricultural production survey
Relationship Between Major Domains and Data Sources • In general, agricultural surveys and census produce data for the domains of production, prices, employment
Plans for Expansion to Other Regions • The FAO Metadata Framework will be implemented in other regions started with 17 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) under the BMG-funded CountrySTAT project. • One of the main activities in the CountrySTAT project is to analyze the situation in countries and prepare benchmark reports on food and agriculture data and metadata in the countries. • The Metadata Framework will provide the overall framework for the preparation of these country reports. • These benchmark reports will provide reference for evaluation of the impact of project in terms of data accessibility, data quality, and data dissemination.
CONCLUSION • FAO metadata framework provides a possible answer to “What should adequate Metadata be?” • Metadata helps users interpret agric. stat. • Metadata framework is useful for producers to improve the food and agric. stat. system • To obtain good metadata, joint efforts are required by all concerned parties • Post country reports to countries’ RDES page