Draft medium-term plan 1992-1997

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UNITED NATIONS

- ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

Fl:XNl·lIC _ro\MSSla~ FOR AFRICA

Sixth seggion of the Joint Confererx:e of African Planners, Statisticians and Der.ographers

J.\ddis Ababa, Ethiopia, 15 - 20 January 1989

DRAFl'MEDIUM-'!'m·i PLAN - 1992 - 1997

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DRAFT MEDI~ -~~PM PLAN - 1992-1?97

SUBPROG?A!:1!1E ::: 5 .

1. The Le oi s Lar rv e a u r.nori ry r or "Chis sr..~t·pr0?l r1~ is d er ive d

fro~ rhe ~~'00S PJ.,qn of a;c-c.iOTI ro r \.te E~on·~7'0.i~ rp~!~i('·")~.en_'( or Af ri c a 1 9 9 0 - 2

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Decade.

coun r rt e s che

in '(.egra r:ed

objec~ives or chis S:1~nro0ra~~e ~rA

~o es~ablish ~n~j!or dAvelop a dt!rahl e

G~ AS2i8~ A!rican

i nrrusrruc r.ure f or

or

act i vi.rie s and ':0 coI _"'_{·~ t} d a ra 01 ::; ~ 8 c i a l p0pul'3.i::ir;p !J 0 11 ·S' such

as wo~en; ~h;ldr'en, rr s d i.saoIed -1n ct ':".h.~ a~:-~r ^':J) ·~s~~·"?t:'. ~~.. r r rc an

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qn d s0ci 1 de~elop~sni ~j~~~.

necessary starLs^t i cci Ci'i··· GL¹ l :!.r:. i <=' 7 ^"(0 y-,:!.-,::·r,uce c-: n(! " c.::o OD ~

con. '(.Lnuous ba sis 5r:a'C.is;:.i CR1 is. r: ~.!!. P1anni f:.C ; morri.ror Lric =tn.c.

e valun c i.no _30ci~1 arId -2~on.c,:::i.(.' pro 1~ E: S B .. ^J:.,,) ~~:rc·,,:";;ide c c n r Lnuous

suppor~ for dsv ~lonin0 n~L~onal aa~a procG~sin~ ~~ ~ bt li~ i e s . E':speci7111~l b~{ Srlti.=t Y"'·-i110 r n e urt Li.zer i cn of ~":1,rr("~-c('·~niJT;rS, to e~-{pa~~d rn» t:.':.·"a1l~b11-1<: .~.I: ~r:..-j i:~ ~ '!'"" 0 \",l S l:_hJ:?

naLi0P~~ , suhre9ion ~1 an ~ rP9ir;nal data bases.

cornpar~bili~y of the 6at:a beina c011ec~e6.

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despi~e sorne i~provsmen~ in s~a~is~ica~ oraaniz~tjQ and nroducrion plans for s ra ri.stic a I

developmAn~ plans whjch is a persis~en~ : a ~ l< of

~any ~fri.~~n c~~ln~rie2.

,j~~~)cl·:) r· ~en\. arid 2T,1~li. fAtlJp,-" ofor nar.i on a I

j nr:! )rr.0 I . ,r:-^p ^'S^r ,~^1-l S_~.i ^("4q1 dE.l':,:'P10_TY~;;n-r:'. T 'TIh_~-::- ;::;

~rai,ned! b1J~ ~h8 ra t i s ~~c~l brain drain, c3n e ~ i a l l y a~ ~ana0€men~

Le^\le 1 ^r hag conr.-Ln¹¹²d .. ^T~ ^q i -::.e ⁰i ":_r_~_~ ad"'.'!;3nr cf -:'Jr e ef fir:i e n~.

hardware ~nd sof'(w re the '(i:~2 lq0 _0e_{~ ~esn} th: c01ier.'(ion of ~a r a

and ~he publicacion of resul~s is s~ill ~oc lona~ Ths ~ain reason for ~hig is ~he lacK 0 ~~~~i~~i~iars 'Yi t h ~odern dqtn pr0cessina skills and of qualifi~ d~~a pro c € ~ ~i ~q spe~~~liqrc RC wpll ~s an Lns uff i ci e nt level of co-or·1.L a^t ion bet W2 2 D ~~l(:r. speci:=Jlisl:s and

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7. For so~e coun~ries, s~aClS~lC:S on co~~odi~y Droduc~s. enerqy and nacional accounGs. will. however. scill la9 behind and essencial price daca for che evalua~ionof econo~ic condi~ions. ehe

~6asuremene of product-ion crends and the assessmenc of informacion will be far from co~ple~G.

8. Al~ost all African coun~ries will have established decennial population census programmes and many will be actively developing or screngchening proqra~~es of continuina household surveys as well as initiacing experimeneal proqram~es for ehe improvemene of ~heir

civil reqis~ration and vieal staciscics sysce~s. Review of naGional praccices in de~ographic and soeio-economic daca collect-ion. process ina analysis and appL'i c at i.on will have been carried oue, recom~endations ~Rde and programmes for filling daea gaps will be in proqress in a number of African courrcri as . A number of couneries in the reqion will have e~barked on ~ollect-ing environ~en~ s~a~is~ics as par~ of ~h~i.r reqular s~a~is~ical

activicies. bu~ concepcual. inScltutiona1 and technical

capabili~ies will need ro be developed ~uch fur~her in ord~r ~o

supply adequace environmental infor~a~ion ~o planners.

9. The reaional s~~~i~(.ical oat-a base will have been co~pucerized

and furcher developed. It will have been expanded t-o con~ain dace on environ~enc s~a~is~ies, wi~h par~i~ular e~phasis on drouqht and desertification and on natural resources. However . rhe full developrnent ot this d~ta base which has in the uase been hampered by the f inanei a1 cri sis of rhe Uni r..ed Na '(ions wi11 depend on available resources and on _~he Quantic¥ and _qua~lty of data originating from national and subregional support-ing cent-res. It- is eheir _qrow~h which will therefore larqely _de~errnine the scope and adequacy of the daca base at tne ~eqional level.

10. The 15 staris tLc a L t.ra Ln i.no ce ntr-es oarci cioet Lno in the Statistical Training Programme for Africa (STPA) . will have trained approximately 700 professional and middle level stat-isticians a year. Some 20 ~rainers involved in ~iddle-level/in-service

training proqram~es will have been crained throuqh workshops . In spite of this, the demand for trained scatistical personnel will not have been satisfied. Post-araduate traininq will need to be further st-rengthened and research activicies a~ the centres

i~proved.

11. Studies wjll have been undercaken and recom~enda~ionsmade on national stat-ist-ical da~a processing capability. scaciscical daca base developrnent and the use of sof~ware packaaes in s~a~iscical compu~ing. However, ~hese recommenda~ionswill noc have been fully i!!lplemented. counrrt e s will hays <:il.>.:.;:...j_reci mor e mlcro-cornpuJ:.ers result-ing in fas~er processinG cime. bigger sr-oraqe capacity and lower co st s , 'fhere will be an inc:r.~8'3ed need. ·co a s si s c rhem in establishing national computer-based sys~ems of inG8qratea

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8cono~ic, social r de~ogr~pMic and environ~8n~ sGacis~ics and ~heir

analysis. A number of scaciscical publicacions on economic. social and de7!'oqraphic data coll e c^t ion . p.,...n,:,essir:.rr, aneⁱ ysi s and

applica~ion in African coun~rles will have been prepared and

di s s erm narad .

12~ TheS8 ~Bch~iGal publica~ions arB in~8nd€d GO aS~lSG naGional

governmen~s in Gonsolidarinq Das~ achieva~enLs and ~hus enSl1re ~h€

durabili~y of ~he da~a col18c~i0n ~echanis~s which have be8n or are belTIg escablished. Trairiⁿ0 _aC~lVlCle~ ion-t::ha-job t::raininG.

se~inars: and w~rksh0ps~ ~nd worklncr qroups ai~ed a~ develoDina concapt::ual and ma~hodoloaical s~ills of nacional st::at::ist::ical st::aff will have been orqa~iz~d. In nrder ~o tur~her j_mDr0v~ performanc~.

these efforGs will, however, n8ed ~o be inGensiried7 (iii The pe r i o d 1992-1~2J

13. The scra~agy ~o be adoDced for ~he nex~ mGdium-~erm plan is as follows:

(a) As si scanc e wi 11 be pro~.:"idec. '(.0 ~e!!!b€r s t.a ce s for r.hs

mainGenance and s~rengthaningof ~heir inst::itu~ionalframeworK and for Ghe provision of da~a for in~eqra~ect plannina. Areas covered will include demographic, social and economic da~a, par~icularly on households and household members. as wall as

environ~ent s~a~is~ics;

ib) Advisory services will be provloed ~o coun~ries on ~he formula~ion of s~q~is~ical plans. inclllding da~a n~oduc~ion

sch edu Le s . rr ai ni nc pr00ra:r:~es a:r:.o. det ai Led d.::-lr:a nro ce s si.no

!'eq1J.iremen-c.s ^I orr rhe e s taci Lsnmen c of uS8r/prodtlCer commi r.tee s for op~imlzinq ~he US8 and relevance of s~a~is~ical ~8rvices.

and on ~he developmen~ and main~enance of inLe?ra~ed compu~er

bas~d SYS~8~S

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~C0DO~ic. ~0cial, dB~Oar~ryhic end environ~en~

st8.~ist"ics~

i:c ; Advi so ry s o r vi c s s lf7i11 8.'1 S(":· 08 pr ov i.d ed on re(f'!.~pgr r.o memher $"I::.ct"(.ao:; in rh s .f~eld2 of pODu'a'(.ion ce ns us e s . civil

rsqis~ra~ion, h,ousghold 9urvev~ environ~en~ s~a~~S~lC9.

nat::ional account::s, t::rade J?'Ca'Cis'Cics and indu~crial scacist::icJ?

They will ~oncen'Cra'Ce on buildina up self-reliance and will

~herefor8 e~phasize on-Gte-joh _~raining;

(d.) The ~.~.srino regional s r.ar ist ic a I dar.,3. .bR.se wi11 b:::

expanded _wi~h a view ~o disse~inar~n~ ~o users co~prehensive

and up-~o-daGe ~G~~is~icql infor~aGionr incluGlnq well-

docu~ent::ed da'Ca from ot::her int::erna~ional dat::a banks and fr0~

na~ional sourcgs:

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(ei A series of crua c eⁱ i.ne s will be nrepar8d, BSP8cially on

~he acquisi~ion of compu~er facili~ies including rnicro- compur er-s and r:hosir s uppo rt ino s of rwa r e . on ~.~osr~ical and horizonr..al collabora~ion wi~h respec~ ~o dar..a processina among

~he differen~ organizar..ional unir..s of ~hos na~ionai sr..ar..isr..ical offices, on applica~ions and analysis of _da~a wir..h _par~icular relevance _{~o ~he} region and on _~he use of sr..a~is~ical

dnf or-mat i.on for moni t ori.nc r h s implert:em::a"(.ion of n a r Lon a I

developrnen~ plans;

(f) Statis~ical compur..ing _ma~erials for on-r..he-job r..raining and formal ~raining of sr..a~is~icians a~ sr..a~ig~ical r..raining

cen~res will be provided;

tgJ Mer..hodological _s~udies will be carried _ou~ in specific areas of economic, social, demographlc and environr:1en~

sr..a~is~ics. These sr..udies will have r..wo main objecr..ives, r..o

iden~ify and analyse the shor~cor:1ings of the basic s~ar..is~ics

at r..he na~ional level, and, ~o serve as r..echnical quidelinoss for mert:ber Sr..a~es r..o assis~ r..her:1 in r..heir effor~s ~o ir:1prove

~he qualir..y and Girt:eliness of dar..a beino collecced;

(h) A series of seminars and t r ai ni.no workshops will be conducced in order GO eX2r:1ine concepr..ual and oraaniza~ional

requirer:1enr..s for i~proving nacional. subreqional and re~ional

prograr:1mes on socio-econ0~ic and environmenc s~a~is~ics, r..o promoce ~he exchanqe of experienGe~ be~ween ~he coun~ries of

~he region in r..he field of s~ar..isr..ics, and ~o develoD furr..h€r the professional compe~ence of ~he par~icipan~s. These workshops and se~inars will focus on: sGa~is~icnl co~pur..inq, popula~ion census, wi~h parr..icular reference ~o special populaT-ion groups, civil reais~rar..ion sysGe~s and vi~al

star..iscics colleccion, household surveys, environr:1en~

s~ar..is~ics, inr..erna~ional ~rade sea~is~ics. business survosys, basic economic s~a~iscics and nar..ional accounr..s. A series of

~echnical documen~s will be prepared on ehe above ~opics, in order r..o provide member _S~aces wir..h s~acis~ical mechodologies suir..ed ~o r..hair needs.