Status of Environment Statistics in Mauritius

1. Status of Environment Statistics in Mauritius Workshop on Environment Statistics & Accounts Central Statistics Office

2. Institutional aspects of environment statistics in Mauritius • In order to meet the data needs of planners, policy makers in environmental and related socio-economic field, the CSO, in 1994, started work on the development of environmental statistics. • In June 1999, a Statistic unit was subsequently created at the Department of Environment and Sustainable Development

3. Activities of the Statistics Unit • To carry out thorough inventories of all existing information on the environment • To prepare a database on environmental statistics • To compute annual inventory of greenhouse gas emissions • To construct indicators to monitor trends and impacts of measures • To conduct ad hoc environmental surveys, and • To disseminate data on the status of the environment • To participate in various projects – SOE, EIS, NODC,SCP

4. Sources of data Official requests from: • Ministry of Agro Industry and Food Security • Ministry of Energy & Public Utilities • Ministry of industry & Commerce • Ministry of Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment • Ministry of Health and Quality of Life • Ministry of Local Government & Outer Islands • Ministry of Environment and Sustainable development • Central Water Authority • Central Electricity Board • Meteorological Services • National Transport authority

5. Publications & Reports • Economic and Social Indicator on Environment Statistics • Digest of Environment Statistics • Pocketbook of Environment Statistics • Other ad hoc reports (SCP Indicators) • Provision of indicators/statistics for other reports

6. Data processing and analysis • Excel software for data capture • Statistical analysis: SPSS Software • Greenhouse gases are computed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC Software) Revised 1996

7. Scope and Coverage • Flora: mainly forestry statistics • Fauna: Mainly Fisheries statistics • Atmosphere: Climate, GHG emissions, air quality • Land: Land use, agriculture, solid wastes • Water: abstraction, use • Human settlements: Energy, transport, infrastructure, socio-economic

8. Topic and data items • Flora: Forest area, local production, land protected areas, forest plantations • Fauna: Livestock, fish catch, consumption of fish, fishable areas, marine protected areas • Atmosphere: Temperature, humidity, ambient air quality, greenhouse gas emissions, ozone-depleting substances, respiratory diseases • Water: Fresh water resources, water abstraction, precipitation, water consumption, water quality of rivers and coastal areas, sea surface temperature • Land: Land use, forest area, built-up areas, agricultural land areas, road network, waste landfill • Human settlements: Population growth, population density, primary energy requirement, energy consumption, health and welfare conditions, building permits, employment by industrial group

9. Guidelines followed • A framework for the Development of Environment Statistics, Statistical Papers, series M, No. 78 (FDES) • Concepts and Methods of Environment Statistics: Statistics of the Natural Environment, Studies and Methods, Series F, No. 57 • Concepts and Methods of environment Statistics: Human Settlements Statistics, Studies and Methods, Series F, No. 51

10. Outputs • Publications: Economic and Social Indicator on Environment Statistics • Digest of Environment Statistics • Other Ad-hoc publications (SCP in June 2010)

11. Thanks