FARZANE Aziz , High Commission for Planning

1. GlanceatThe National Statistical system of Morocco and source of discrepencies for someselected MDG indicators FARZANE Aziz , High Commission for Planning UNSD-DFID Project: Fourth Workshop on CountryData – Building better dissemination systems for national development indicators Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 21-25 April 2014

2. Content Statistical capacity of morocco Institutional framework of the National Statistical System Organisation of the HCP Upgrade of the NSS Organization, coordination and standardization of data collection for monitoring MDGs Source of discrepencies for the selected MDG indicators Ongoing developements

3. Statistical capacity of morocco The approach of the World Bank to assess the statistical capacity of countries classify Morocco among countries with "very high capacity." The evaluation method is to assign a rating based on 25 criteria on three aspects of the statistical information system namely (i) the statistical practice, (ii) data collection and (iii) the availability of indicators . 3

4. Institutional framework of the National Statistical System • In the National statistical System, the HCP is the main producer of economic, demographic and social statistics and the national accounts. • HCP plays also an essential role in the dissemination of statistical information produced by the national statistical system.

5. Institution with institutional and intellectual independence, elaborates studies in several areas: conjuncture, macroeconomic forecasting and framing, Consistent, in the development of statistics and studies, to international norms and standards. Institutional framework of the National Statistical System (continued)

6. Institutional framework of the National Statistical System (continued) • Coordination between national statistical system stakeholders By its attributes, the HCP has also the responsibility of statistical coordination between departments producers of statistical information. In this regard, several coordination meetings to facilitate the exchange of statistical information within specified time frames are held regularly. The HCP is also linked with several departments by agreements for the transfer of know-how especially in the collection of statistical data. 6

7. Organisation of the HCP

8. Upgrade of the NSS initiatives Taken by the HCP Reinforcement of the legal framework implementation of the 1993 System of National Accounts, which is the global standard of national accounting adopted by the Statistical Commission of the United Nations Reinforcement of the use of new technologies of collection and dissemination (computer-assisted collection (CAPI), Automatic Document Reading (ADR) and GIS, …) Economic and population Censuses reinforcement of cooperation with other departments staff recruitment and training Financing of the statistical production Reinforcement of international cooperation 8

9. Organization, coordination and standardization of data collection for monitoring MDGs The National Report on the Millennium Development Goals: • An initial response to the commitments made by Morocco Summit of the Millennium Development Goals; • Developed by the High Commission of Planning in cooperation with the social and economic partners and UN agencies; • One report produced avery two years since 2003 9

10. Approach taken: • Taking into account the gender dimension in the process of implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the MDGs at the national level. • The development of targets and indicators, taking into account the strategic needs of women. •  Enlargement of the consultation and participation in the preparation of the report by organizing workshops. 10

11. At the organizational level: • Steering Committee composed of the HCP, the ministries involved in the MDGs, representatives of civil society and UNDP. This committee is responsible for planning and coordinating the various stages of the development process of national MDG report in a consultative framework. • Each workshop is led by the ministerial department concerned. • The HCP is responsible for completing and synthesizing sectoral contributions, writing the introductory chapter on the economic, political and social context of Morocco and harmonizing the different chapters. 11

12. List of thematic workshops and departments responsible for their organization 12

13. Source of discrepencies for the selected MDG indicators • Indicator : Tuberculosis incidence rate • Age group: All age ranges • Location: Total (national level) • Sex: Both sexes • Units of measurement: Per 100,000 population • Discrepencie : 18% • Explanation : different data sources, different methodologies • One reason for the differences may lie in the fact that international figures are estimated by WHO while national figures are calculated using data from surveys, roughly every five years. • Another source of differences seems to be the use of a different base population: WHO uses the UNDP projections, while the Ministry of Health uses the estimates of the HCP.

14. Indicator : Population using improved drinking water sources Age group: All age ranges Location: Urban Sex: Both sexes Units of measurement: Percent Discrepencie : 1% Explanation : different data sources Country data use HCP population projections; International data are based on UNDP population estimates.

15. Indicator : Internet users Age group: All age ranges Location: National Sex: Both sexes Units of measurement: Per 1000 population Discrepencie : 23% Explanation : different methodologies - Source for country data ANRT - Country data uses number of households that have access to the internet. However, the international definition uses the number of individuals that have access to the internet.

16. Ongoingdevelopements Finalizing the metadata handbook in cooperation with stakeholders. Finalizing the Upgrade of the Statistical Database (SDB) of HCP. This oracle database includes in addition to the consultation module, two other modules that use the latest technology in data exchange and dissemination namely publication module and SDMX-exchange module.

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