Electronic data processing inventory

I UNITED NATIONS

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

Distr.

LIMITED

E/CN-.14/CAS.1O/2 24 August 1977 Original: ENGLISH

ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFRICA Tenth session of the Conference

of African Statisticians Addis Ababa, 17-22 October 1977

ELECTRONIC DATA PROCESSING INVMTORY

CONTENTS

I« Introduction

II* Location of the Computer in Relation to th»

Statistics Producing Organs

Ill* Computer Installations for Processing Statistical Data ...

IV. EDP Workload V, Personnel VI. Training VII, Conclusion

ANNEXES

1. List of countries which sent replies

2. Computers used to process statistics in Africa 3- Input devices

4- Data support 5» Output devices 6. Software

7. Current EDP tasks 8.. Future EDP tasks

9. Personnel - Systems/Programming staff

10. Personnel - Off-line operations and administration,

data preparation, output preparation

11. Number of staff trained by field of study 12. Future training needs by field of study

GENERAL NOTES

The following symbols have been used in the tables:

"1" denotes "Yes"

"..." denotes "not available"

"-" denotes "Nil"

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1. Introduction

I;1 • At its ninth session the Conference of African. Statisticians agreed-.that ..

regional information on data' processing, capabilities arid requirements should be-:,

collected periodically and that statistical'offices and data processing units

throughout the region should be asked to..provide relevant information biennially.;.

2. This study ib based on country replies to a questionnaire entitled "Regional Survey, of Da.ta Processing Capabilities and--Requirementsy T976/77"., The'new enq'uiry' was intended to be a systematic one developed' to"bring up-to-date and maintain.a.

running record of all relevant facts. -The scope was therefore more comprehensive

than any made previously. .■■••■ . ''.'J-J; - -

3- The questionnaire was sent to 50 countries but at the time of writing~feplies

have been received from only 22 (see table 1 annexed hereto) out of which 5 countries

stated that they did not process any computers but two envisaged installations<ot- one form or another KDP facilities in the near future. Due to the rather low : ■. iT response rate information available and relating to non-participating countries.,.. ' in the enquiry is included in the document.

4« One is aware that in developing countries even where computers have been'introduced there is often underutilization of the equipment because, for example, there"are""rio~

enough^,people with ..training and experience to apply the new method33 Also concerted- action for the transfer.- of computer technology to developing countries has been of

to,p^priority 1/, it would be useful if the Conference of African Statisticians were

to consider seriously ways and means of improving and responding to future enquiries in spite of certain conclusions drawn from the available data and information of'the present survey.

5. The following points will be discussed:

- Location of the computer in relation to the statistics - :.- "

'producing organ; _-K - .

- Computer installations for processing statistical data;

- EDP workload; :- • ■

--.-Personnel 3 .-.■■.■

■; * ":._ Training .

II. K)CATI0N OP THE COMPUTER IN RELATION TO THE STATISTICS - PRODUCING OR.OAN ■ 6, Table 1 below aummarlsLes the situation as regards the location of the-'-computer

in relation'to' statistics - producing organs.

7- The 36 countries for which the ECA secretariat has information conoerning-the■■

location of computers may be classified into two groups.

-it-- - ■

\J United Nations: The Application of computer technology for development

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8. The first group contains those countries where the statistical services do not

have computers tc

departments. 18 process their work 1out can by and large use,.equipment in other

countries are in this'situation . For the. most part, ■-■■■' (

Table 1: -Location of'compute'r in relation to statistics -

..■'■■

Country

North Africa

■Egypt

Libyan a.j.

Morocco ■ Sudan' . . ■ Tunisia

■ ^West Africa Benin

Ghana Guinea

Ivory Coast Liberia Mali

Mauritania

Senegal

IT * " *.

Nigexia

Sierra Leone ■■"

Togo .

Upper:VoXta—'

Central Africa

Cameroon

Computer available in the statistical

service

X X X X X

. ■.'.-■ :.":•.

X . -..

X

X

X

X X

X

Central African Eknpire

2/ Reply sent by

Demographie. Institut National ds

Computer available in

another service

X i . .

■

X X

X X

X

■ •--'.'X '■■ ■. .' i

X X

la Statistique et de

■ producing organ

Remarks

■

Direction du central.

mecanographique . ■

(Ministere des finances)

m ...

Ministere des finances Office Central de la mecanographie (OCM) Ministere des finances

Direction du traitement automa.tiqua de 1' information (DTAI)

Centre nationale du

traitement de 1'information

Direction centrals de

l'inforraation et de la

tele-informatique ; Office National de

I1informatique (ONI)

la

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1'> Looation of computer in relation to statistics - producing organ (cont'd)

Country

Computer available Computer available

in the statistical in

service ' .-another service ^Remarks Central Africa (Cont'd)

Chad " "

Congo

Gabon -'

2a ire

East Africa Botswana Ethiopia : Kenya ■ Lesotho Madagascar .Malawi

Somalia Swaziland Uganda - -

■Jnited Republic of Tanzania'"

x X

z

X X

X X X

Office Ccngolais de

l'informatique (OCl)

Direction de l'inf^i-metin

(Ministers des-finance.?}

Treasury, Ministry of Finance

Account General's Department, Ministry ■ of Pinanco

Treasury Department Ministry of Finance Ministry of Finance and Planning

. Repliea to ECA questionnaire and information available to ECA secretariat.

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they have adopted a policy of centralising processing facilities particularly as regards the public aeotoj? aryi.■ haye;\the^e^oje Aes.^Jbii^^i"^h^!r"-nationdl'cpmpute

'^ --i * - * -

chiriery.

_ . ., Ministry of

Finance;:which?. by virtuefof itsrmanagemeht taaks^'-i-B'Initially the first client*

But as computer sciences, dey>3lop>-, :fch;e!-".a£p_li

management'of'oervices other /ih&n "jUnancial ones* Thus, to meat the ,ne.e;ds of a-11..".. „. ■.:

users, the CQhtrar'CoSput"eV"^'c£encewSerVi;(re~of~Cameroon is still attached to . the ...

Office of the President of the Republic although the Central Statistical Office acquired a minicomputer rIBM/32 in 1976 for internal use while major statistical tasks are still undertaken ..by direction Centrale 4-e lslnformatique et de la tele-informatique. In

Malawi; the jNat-ional. ^Statistical Office has no longer its computer since the old

I'£0. 1004' insta3.-led.for 1966 census, got toe old to maintain* The Data Processing Unit

W3G. transferred in 1975 to the Accountant General's Department and uses the Portland Cement Coo or Malawi Railways ICL 1901. - .,-. ■;■-■.■ .■ ;

9. The second group includes countries where the statistical services have their,

■•v.m equipment which, for the r.ost part, is used to process mainly statistical work;.--'■. . .

..:i Sudaiip -tho. equipment is also used to process savings':bonds and offer processing,

r.ervice to. ShellvCompany, Eank of; Sudan and non-governmental surveys on a customer .: >

banis which altogether take up 43 per cent of total processing time in the year- In Zaire,. although'.the Institut de:i.Recherche Scientifique (IRS) possesses an IBM ~ 1401 compu.t;prr.there are two other services involved with processing statistical work. . They ar.e;SI2 (Service de l!information du Zaire) and Finances. Both possess^

IBM 370/60. ,.jThQ former operating-ifithin the offices ofv the President of the '.__;;• ' Republic serves to co-ordinate the.;i'.computer policy of t^e country and has also. :\" .

established,a data^ banlc containing'files on foreign tra&e, enterprises and workers.'/

10 • In some casoev :the computers operated by the statistical services :a re' use'd by/ ,

all the Gex-yices.^Vi'vb.ioi the e^irt.i.^trG^.i nn, For ezaap.l.e. tbey are us 3d :to:*proooss such,, data ao taxation, personnel records, medical stores in Zambia, fichier des

Gtabliesements_and :parc

llo The first/group j":wB.obe statistical^ work tha.q ,.;tq^e, .prjo.ceksed in the ..ministry directly responsible for the ""doni'put'ef :service is' placed" in a' vulnerable position.

At a time wh.6n coverb shortage of skilled manpower in computer science and technology is common in many developing countries lack of supervision of computer development and communication between the statistical office and the computer service might hinder smooth and speedy processing of statistical work of this group.

12U In viow of the above; it has become necessary for statisticians to have some

"basic training in computing so as to establish a better dialogue between the

statisticians and the computer specialists. This suggestion remains valid for the second group in which the computer is located in relation to statistics-producing

organ,

13° In the second group, i.e. those countries where the computers used to process

statistics are located within the statistical services, there exists the problem <of

overloading wher. an occasional heavy load occurs. It is observed that the computers

-of low capacity.

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14. For countries which have adequate resources the easiest solution is of course to replace with a machine with larger memory and sufficient supporting peripherals Madagascar envisages ao^uxsi-tian of an IBM/370/13 with 512k memory, in 1978 to-replace

its present IBM 360/40 with only 64k memory, Egypt has been using an ICL 1906a-with . 192k memory since 1974 apart from an ICL-1904 of 32k owned by the statistical-office;

The Department of Census and Statistics in Libya is known to have acquired an -

IBM 370/135 of 145k. ■ ' ' . '

15. Another solution might be to pool all the reeouxces of all. available computers in the country so-as to establish a comprehensive"plan for processing, - This could : . avoid wasteful idle time in one department while the other one is heavily -loaded-.

16. Certainly various kinds of problems will arise in connection with'the location -of computer. To solve them depends on the concrete conditions, resources personnel, etc,

of the country involved.

^ mention should "be made of Gambia and Guinea-Bissau where thereare :' no computer instal-latione at all. The Statistical Office of Gambia.

is exploring the possibility of having.one installed later this year and similarly

^..Gambia. Meteorological Department is contemplating the purchase of a mini-computer . in "t^e. near, future. ■ In the case of'Guinea-Bissau, an inter-regional^adviser from,-the TJH Statistical Office recently visited the'couhtry to examine the feasibility of installing and operating a mini-computer for the planned Population Census being '

assisted-by-UNFPA. * . ■

III. COMPUTER INSTALLATIONS FOR PROCESSING STATISTICAL DATA

18. Tables 2 to 6 annexed hereto give a general view of the facilities available to process statistical data. The information contained in the 5 tables is limited to, those countries which sent in their replies to the questionnaire and therefore no

substantive conclusions could be drawn for developing Africa as a. whole. However, some brief comments can be made1 of installations as far as data input, the processor,-output

devices'and .software are concerned. . - '..

.1.1. '

19» Data input devices (See Table 3 annexed hereto). The most striking example is

Egypt which has very good facilities for data input. There is, among tho .countries, wid«

variation in the installation of various devices. Malawi would"acquire two mini

computers in future. In fact mini computers are increasingly popular in America

and Europe for their efficiency and low installation costs. Tanzania and Uganda""

have one each in use in their statistical offices. In.the years to come the mini

computer could also find its place in Africa. The rest o£ the countries reported. ■

do not seem;,to have any immediate plans to replace their.present devices. .

20. The majority of the countries under review use 80 column cards.. Zambia ; reportedly to be using 128 column cards is now using also 80 column type.

21. As far as automatic data input is concerned, only'rthree _ Egypt, Uganda ...and ■ Zambia.use optical-maTk reader or optical character reader. It-would; be. useful to. . know the experiences of these countries because although the method is attractive and is supposed to be time-saving there are many practical problems to be looked

into.

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22. Data support- ('See-Table 4j annexed" hereto) ' '

liillilliF

■23- ..- Processing (See Table 2 annexed hereto) '"' ' ""

its ICL 1904 in I966 with 32k it boosted its processing capacity in 1Q7A

ICL 1906 s wi +hi q oL- a^"-A# ■" ' ±L' s cdpacixy in.iy/4 •

26. Output DeviceR YRfiR Tahi ^ ^ -a'^^^ heretc>:)

3 have, paper tape punches

ia sraph p

28. Software (See Table 6 annexed hereto")'"",t^".

s using it. Five" 'ccuhtries are^usihg'SL'/i: a

^teti of °"mbini- ^*««cf t"^1 la"s and

C0CENTS..are USSd ^. S-ian, Up.peP Volta,. CongP, Kenya, Madagascar •

^^r'^S:^ ^V ;J X.SB

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IV. EDP WORK LOAD " '

30. Current' EDP 'tasks (-See Table 7, annexed hereto) • - ■ ' '

Eight nut of the 17 countries reported include population census among their

major statistical'^tasks:;- -.Naturallyipr:o'cess'ing--of--th-ese-'data' accounts a relatively'bi-g-

portion of processing time in the year. External trade, being periodically

processed is the second"major" statistical "task handled. Social and economic surveys of'various kinds*-a re other major tasks, of. nine countries. '

31* Future EDP tasks (See Table"6 annexed hereto)

Four countries have no immediate plans of future EDP tasks. Sudan, Cameroon, Madagascar and Tanzania plan to process household survey data. Apart from external-

trade,, agricultural and industrial surveys will be major taks for.Sudan, Congo, Swaziland

and Zambia. The overall picture is that thirteen of the reported., countries will ■

have challenging plans for the next three years. ..

V. PERSONNEL

■■.'(.' /;■' - .

32. Table 9 annexed hereto shows that there are 9 experienced sys-tems/programming managers with 3 undergoing training. 10 out of the 17 countries have systems analysts supported by senior or junior programmers. Ethiopia, which reported to have neither systems analysts nor senior programmers in fact will, have these pasts -filled -out.iji the very future as soon as the proposed organization of the Central Statistical Office

is put into force. Consequently these posts are currently shouldered by the

existing staff members. .*.' ... ■. .'.■'■!

33* Table 10 annexed hereto presents supporting personnel involved in off-line ' ' operations and administration, data preparation and output preparation. Egypt is ' undoubtedly the only country which has such all round support. As far as computer"

operations are concerned there are 8 DP managers, 21 operation specialists, 36 senior operation staff and 154 junior operation staff for all the countries under-review. ■

34» As far as off-line operations and administration are concerned there are 15 ' -

subject specialists DP liaison, 545 DP input/output clerical staff and 6 junior staff. All the staff mentioned are experienced. -

35- At the level of data preparation there, are 59 supervisors of whom 2 are under- training and 515 punchers and verifiers of whom 34 are under training. ■ .■ ■ < -

3&i Las'tly; as far as output operations are concerned Egypt has one manager and

recruitment estimate is 1$ Central African Empire has 2 expatriates and Madagascar also has 1 manager.

37 • .Table-2 below summarises the ..current and future situation as regards the computer

staff employed to process statistics. v - - '.

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38. It can be seen that demand for specialists is high. The higher demand junior programmers than senior programmers could imply an expansion in the

for

transfer of programming knowledge. As far as off—line- operations-administration is concerned demand for DP output clerical staff is the' lowest.

Table 2: Number of trained staff by

.... .. . -

'..-.■-, ■ ■ ■

Category of . .. ■

staff

1. Systems/Programming

_-.i.!- . -Systems/programming managers - Systems analysts

-- Senior programmers - Junior programmers

2. Computer operations

.. f -~2)£, Managers

...— Operation specialists - -.Senior operational staff ., - "Junior operational staff 3- Off-line operations — admin.

- Subject specialists DP liaison -- DP output clerical staff

- Other junior staff

4. Data preparation ■ . - Supervisors

- Puncher and verifier

5« Output preparation -■Managers/specialists - Other staff ■•

VI. TRAINING

category and recruitment

Trained and

experienced staff

or staff under training

12 ■ '

63

■ 57 ■ 41

24

9

■ • 45

169

16 553.

35

515 59

4 21

39. As'far as systems analysis is concerned training areas .may

headings:

- Introductory - Basic

- Advanced

estimates

Recruitment estimates

(B)

11

7

2 4

3

—

. . 4 21

- 63.

2

2

1

4

1

Ra tio in B A

% '

58.3 '

■ 17.5 "

' 3*5

9.8

33.3 .'

— -

8,9

12.4

I808 . 1.1 5.7

8.0 ■3-4

25.O ■ 19:0

be divided into three ■

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40. It can be seen from.Table 3 belo-v that 64 have been .trained.and 14 are under training in introductory and basic theory and practice of systems analysis. Relatively smaller number, only 10, have been trained or being trained in..advanced systems.

41 • There-are 154 trained programmers and 69 trainees.' As far as languages are

concerned,; there are 54 trained in Cobdl, 20 in'Fortran, 11 in.RPGII, 29 in other languages such as Fli/l and Algol, 13 trained, how ,,ip:, .use packages like CiJNTS and

CGCENTS and 8 on operating systems. Those who are being trained are also in the same order of magnitude but with none being trained on operating systems.

42. From Table 3 it can be observed that a large proportion of the training is offered

by statistical-offices -or within government and by manufacturers within the country

as-far-as Basic systems-analysis and programming is concerned. . ■ ■ :

Table 3* Number of staff trained by area of study and training sources

.Traintn'g 'organs A B Dl D2 D3 El E2

1. Systems

- Introductory - Basic

- Advanced

Programming

- Assembly languages - Cobol

- Fortran . - RPG-II.

- Other highland languages - Statistical package - Operating systems

2 12 4

40 26 2 1 1

.— .

14 50 6

19

54 20 11 :3

29

8

4 5 5

2 14 7 5 10

7

5

- —

2 2

10 18 3 1

—

—

_

—

—

8 9

—

—

2

. _

2 53

1 6 6 1 4 2 .3

4 15 4

12 2

_ _

12

■■ -.-' ' . —

_ _

-

1 1

3 6 3

i-t

1 1 3

Total

88 224 64 36 19 33 49

²⁰

As Numbers in training Bs Numbers trained

C: Training within statistical offices or within government

D; Training in United Nations or other non—commercial centres

Dl: Within the country

D2: Outside the country but within Africa D3s Outside Africa

E: Training at manufacturers or other commercial centres El: Within the country

E2: Outside the country but within Africa

E3: Outside Africa

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l?nvled«« of computer science training sources have generally to

:th« countryeither within Africa or nutside Africa.

12 annaxed he-rato presents future training needs by field of study.

^ rL r SyStemS analy8tS at -^-^> intermediate S advanced pro^rair'mine■« concerned 'training needs in assembly . ran- are equally bigc It can also be observed that there is a strong demand for people to be trained in operating systems,

vii. conclusion . . ,

45-o--In. the past ten years or so there-hatf-fceen considerable development in the

application of computers in Africa,, especially for data processing and'statistical ' "

analysis. There is no doubt that developing African countries have urgent'needs. ' However, it must be pointed out that it is not at all obvious what priority should be given to computers or what contributions can or should be made by computers in

developing African-cpuhtrtesiwHen. considered, relative ^to- the-m^numenta-lVrobiems- of ■-"- - food production, population, development of natural resources, and employment.

Itmerits.-attentionythat; in their initial" years' of' installation computers, have' ^

*ee.n -s^m- .*? ** particularly capital-intensive and could-require -a- developing - "

country to use a lerge amount of its foreign exchange, -

46. -One must not overlook other related problems fnr example, location of the

computers,- adequate-understanding; built on experience, of what needs to be done in ' the Golleotion and analysis of data, personnel available with a firm practical ' background m administrative procedures for data collection and analysis before one merely associates the contribution of computing to data processing and statistrcal analysis with speed, reliability and cost-effictiveness.

47* In view of the crowing interest in computers in the wnrld in general and in

fUrfm3r"CMC is ne3d*or a periodical inventory of equipment and personnel

es as th lt t th

rf. pl inventory of equipment and perso

of ormpuver Qciences as they relate to the processing of statistics. It

remains a joint effort on thejpart f>f the, countries concerned and, the secretariat to

lay empb^io, j.a mture enquiries, on obtaining data and more precise information on

porsonnel ^s.will as.on training .facilities .offered in Africa-, ■

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Annexes

Table l-s.» List of Countries which sent repliea

""' "North Africa East Africa

Egypt Ethiopia

Sudan Kenya

Lesotho

- Weet .Africa Madagascar

r. Malawi

Cape Verde Islands Seychelles

Gambia Somalia

Guinea Bissau Swaziland

Upper Volta . Tanzania

;-rji-->I ,.;;'■• ■ ' - . . Uganda

Central j, Africa . Zambia

Cameroon■ .

Central African Hnpire Congo■

Rwanda Zaire

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Table 2: Computers used

Country

NORTH AFRICA Egypt

Libya A.J.

Sudan Tunisia WE3T AFRICA

Benin Ghana Guinea

Ivory Coast Liberia Mali

Mauritania Niger Nigeria Senegal

Togo

Uppor Volta CENTRAL AFRICA

Eurundi Cameroon

Central Afr. Empire Chad

Congo Gabon Zaire EAST iiy."".'

Botswana

Ethiopia Kenya Lesotho

■ Madagascar

Malawi Uganda

United Rep. of Tanzania Zambia

3/ Installation planned 4/ Installation planned

to orocess

Type of Computer

ICL '904 ■■.

ICL 19Oi n IBM 370/135 IBM 36O/.13O IBM 370/125

HB GaMS5A 30

IBI-: 360/30.;

IBM 1401

IBM 37O/145 IBM 360/20 HB GAMMA 10 IBM 3

HB GAK33A 10

IBM 370/145

IBM 36C/4O IBM 370/145 IE-Pi 370/115 IBM 37O/I25

IB-M 3

IBM 370/155

CII IRIS 45 IBK 360/22 IBM 370/125 CII IRIS 50 IBK 1401

J :. a

IB-M 5410

IBM £70/135

ICL ICL

IBM 360/40 ISM 370/13$

ici, 1901 IBM 36O/E3C .ICL 190^

ICL" 19-02 &

IBM 370/145

for 1977

for 1Q7£.

statistics in Africa

Storage

■' - Capacity ■-"•

- ■ : ■

■ "... 32 K 192 K 145 K

64 K

■ . 128 K

20 K

64 K 16 X 8 K 32 K 208 K4 K 256 K

-««

96 K

■> 5 '#

v+ r

■ 512 K 80 K 32 K 128 K

01.0

16 IC

128 K 48 K 256 K 20 K

8 K**'

/ 64 K

rJ 512 K

16 X 32 K 16 K 16 K 208 K

-

, . ... Other Computers

Acquisition- .. ■_. n +VlQ »

• : Date'

1966 1574

0 • j

1970

1975

1971

«4 ■

»v m

* * •

0 0 *

** e

1974

1967

♦* * *

* * •

■ a *

1975 1975

9 « C

19741973

■ S3

1975

■ e i-

1970

1974 1972

1975

1970

1972

1967

1968 1969s"" y

1973

Administration ._.-' .. ; ... .!■■-..

_

• • •

- - - * • •

IBM 370/145, HB-2-H

:CII-2-IRIS;45.

• * •

HB GAMMA 10

... ■ ■ ■ " —

_

9 • • ' ' ' '

IBM 360/40-.. ■

IBM 370/45

_

•■ •

_

IBM/32

—

ona

—

—

ICL/1901 A

-

i c

• ■■

12 1

i. i

2 £

33

ij h

5ft

33 8

il S

ful f£l

33

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— K

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Table 4: BATA SUPPORT

Sub-region Country

MT

Drivers MT Transfer Rate No.

^rp Type -kt tn- o- ; -Magnetic Drums Operating System

-IT Packing-Density No. of Cost/Reel ?Oba^ /S^^rw \ Storage cap. Trans- Storage Kequirementa

Channels' ^S*0 (N°° °f Char* ' mission (K - Char. )

MT

Qther random gs devioeB

NORTH AFRICA i Egypt

Sudan

ffEST AFRICA -Upper Volta

CENTRAL AFRICA Cameroon

Central African Empire

Congo

Zaire

EAST AFRICA Ethiopia Kenya

Lesotho

Madagascar

Malawi

Somalia Swaziland

Tanzania

Uganda

Zambia

■V

*/

;i/

V 83/

40 KC/S 1/

60 & 80 KC/S 2/

15 000 Char./

sec. l/

15K/S 2/

200 000 Char./

sec, _2/

6CKC/S 2/

8CKC/S 2/

80 000 Char./

sec. JL/

120 000 Char./

sec. 2/

2OCC/S

6CK/S 4CK/S

41 700 Char./

sec. _l/

4CK/S 1/

20 850 Char./

see l/

2CK/S 2/

92 160 Char./

sec. l/

:3/

556 1/ 7 1/

200, 556 & 800 2/ 7 & 9 2/

800 1/ 9 1/

800 2/

800 & 1 600 2/

1 600 1 600 850

1 600 1 600

•. *

800 1/

1 600 3/

556 1/

1 600 1/

37.5 1/

1 600 2/

1 600 1/

1 600 1/

7 2/

9 1/ 7 2/

91/

3 10

3

1/

2/

1/

8M 1/

30M 2/

7M 1/

3 2/

92/

9

9

7 1/

9 1/

7 2/

a.e

9.1/ 9 3/

7 1/

9 1/

1 1/

10 2/

10 OOOPCPA 4 2/

4 2/

• . • —*

87 125 Birr 2 l/

6 2/

1 1/ 23/

C . 0 -> J^l

4 .3/

6 1/

q e 0 J- *-£

100/per

1 200 feet

2 2/

4 1/

725OK 2/

9M

10CM 2/

25M 2/

70M 2/

2/

4.9M 1/

60M 3/

89M 1/

300M 3/

4 096 000 1/

4.2M 1/

4o9M 1/

29 176 000 1/

3 200 000 2/

106 x 100

806 000

Char/sec,

16 2/

10 1/

8 2/

2U

28 2/

48 2/

1 408 1/

12 1/

VM System

Sources: Replies to ECA questionnaire and information available to ECA Secretariat,

\J Equipment owned or rented by statistical office 2/ Other equipment used by statistical office j}/ Prospective acquisitions by statistical office 4/ Figure relates to the second computer installed

.^MT ' Magnetic Tape ^ ^ ^

Table 5: OUTPUT DEVICES

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Computer Computer Line Character

Sub-region Output Output Line Printer Printer Character Printer

Country oard Punch P.T. Punch Speed Printer Speed

No. Model No. Model Noc Model (line/rain, ) No. Model (Char9/Sec, )

Special Character Features

Graph **>*****

Model

Computer Other computer Ancillary

Output Output Output

"i°rofil» Devices Devices

NORTH AFRICA Egypt

Sudan

WEST AFRICA Upper Volta

CENTRAL AFRICA Cameroon

Central African Eknpire

Congo ]

Zaire

EAST AFRICA Ethiopia

Kenya '.

Lesotho

Madagascar

Malawi

Somalia Swaziland Tanzania

Uganda .

Zambia

ICL2151

IBI252O

1% 1B13525

1BM1442

1M3525

ICL1925 2-1/ ICL1933/3 1 350

ICL1925 3^/ ICL1933/3

IBM1O17 1 IBM14O3 500

1BM35O5

IHU442

ii/

l=f C1I2

1^/ IBM14O3 2V MDS132O

IB114O3

li/ IEH5203 2?/ IBM14O3 li/ ICL

IBM14O3 IBM3204

2i/ ICL24O5 li/ NCR645 2^/ ICL2411

2j ICL24O9

14O3N2

I.EMIA 03

1 85CP2/

1 000 1 100 150 150

300

1 100

300

1 looi^

1 200^

600 650 300 &

600 600 60 1/

1 100

ICL1934 ICL7151 ICL7151 I Ml05 2 40

NCR6101-

1052

\-J Callomp 1627 II Sources 1 Replies to ECA questionnaire and information available to ECA Secretariat.

l/ Equipment owned or rented by statistical office 2/ Other equipment used by statistical office 2/ Figure relates to the second computer installed

Ta\ie6:Software Sub-regionJJ/}QLBASIC 0ountry NORTHAFRICA Egyptxx Sudan-- WESTAFRICA UpperVolta•..••» CENTRALAFRICA Cameroon—— CentralAfricanEmpire— Congo—— Zaire—— EASTAFRICA Ethiopia—- Kenya—— Lesotho—- Madagasoar—- Malawi—- Somalia 2

COBOL X X X X X X - X X X X X X

FORTRAN X i m M 3 X - X X X X X X

RPGII — X ... X X X" - X — X _ --■

Otherhighlevel language computers PLAN ... PL/1 - - AUTOLOADER - — XDDC-Direct Entryformat programme compiler — PLAN

Operating system GEORGE2&3 DOS DOS Release21*7 SIHIS2

DOS/VS R33

- ... DOS EXEC DOS

Assembly language PLAN — ••• X - IBM320 - - ASSEMBLER — - X

* <t>CD Paokages°^% Dataentry, including editing,table generation, outputprocedures standardICL softwarelibrary CENiS COCENTS COCENTS ■i;. Dataentry,, includingediting Tablegeneration Computer- assisted programming - CENTS - - CENTS-AID 11forSPSS Table generation COCENTS ■i

Table 6: Software (Cont'd)

Sub-region Country

Otherhighlevel ALGOLBASICCOBOLFORTRANRPGIIlanguageOperatingAssembly .computerssystemlanguagePackages

EAST AFRICA (Cont'd)

Swaziland Tanzania Uganda Zambia

x x X

PLAN PL/L(BASIC48 SETCHARACTER) BALDOS/VS

XI)S2" XDSBfor;:: Statisticaland eoonomio;analysis COCENTS: Sources:RepliestoECAquestionnaireandinformationavailabletoECAsecretariat OAS ^ro

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Page 8

7: Current EDP tasks

Sub-rogion

Country Major Statistical

Tasks

NORTH AFRICA

Suda n

WDST AFRICA Upper Volta

AFRICA

Central' African Empire

Conge

Zaire

2AST AFRICA Ethiopia

Processing Time Required

Average No. of Per cent of total of minutes processing time

per day in the year

Foreign Trade

Vital Statistics i

Industrial Production Statistics1 Family Budget Researches i

Labour Force Statistics ;

Establishments Census ■•:■ j 1973 Population Census ■: ;

Foreign Trade ; '

Animal Census

Population Census Demographic Survey

Population Census External Trade External Trade

Population Census

Processing of figures from'

1974 Census

Social Demographic Survey Kinshasa Price Index

Kinshasa Traffic Accidents Immigration Statistics Kinshasa Desirable Births

Dietary Survey in Bukavu Prison Statistics

Small and Moyennes Enterprise

Survey in Kinshasa

60 120 50 60 30 30 61 33 30

120 120

120 100 12 30

178 18 24

12 185

5

Household Economic Survey 54-60

Manpower Survey ! 51.75

Juvenile Delinquency ' 37^93 Public House Administration . 40,44 Lower Income Survey . 90.43 Prostitution Survey , 40.69

189 4

9

4 4'

13' '7

6

10

' 2'

15

12 2.

6.

• • *

66:

6.

9- 4- 1.

6."

1-

-5

-5

.-5 •5

-

3

5 ;

61 02

75:

53:

73 ' 35 63

3.06

13 : 12.74

9.03

9.63

21.53

9.09

Table 7i Current EDP tasks (Cont'd)

Sub- region ' ' '

Country

EAST* AFRICA-(Cont'id)

Kenya '■ *'■ "

-.; .-•■■; . '■ . -

■- ', ■ • : . ■ ■ -

•-'•-■■''■'•■'■ ■ . •

■ ■ •

Lesotho Madagascar

Malawi Somalia

Swaziland

Tanzania1, ... : ■

Uganda

Zambia

Sources: Replies to

1/ The Kenya C

'..-> --■ ■ ■■ ' ■■■

'•*::■:/ :':."•>. ■ '■' ' Major Statistical

Tasks

... . . >:,'

. - .■-.-.,- "" ■ :

Birth and Death Registrations Migration/Tourism Statistics Annual Enumeration of

Enterprise

Moto^p.^Vehicle Statistics Education Census... . Income .Tax Statistics..,., Large FarmB Censue

Integrated Rural Survey*

National Sample

_„,. v». i--:-^.- ■■■■■■ i". ■ 197*- Populati-pni ^usua-■ ■ ■

External Trade • ■ : Card-Index of Establishments Car Parks

Population Census Rice 'Survey

Trade Statistics ;." -' ' Census of Population, ," .

and Livestock Population Census. , Household Budget Survey Agricultural Census -:

Migration Statistics Labour" Statistics Income Tax Statistics Migration r; ■ . . ' " : ■ Hydromfitrological Survey ■■ ■- Income Tax Statistics

External Trade Population Census

ECA questionnaire

E/CN.

'._ Ero.cessing._Time~

Average No. Per

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-Page. 9

Required ■ cent-.of. total of minutes processing time . ■ per day in the year

■66

20 20 120 .60

•".;:;30

480"

120 . 30 . .. 2 =14

3 ...

- 22 ■ ■ ■

; 30 24 50 30

jovernment Computer Centre operates 18 hours per day per week under DOS in a multiprogramming environment- Because processing

processing

1/

• ■ •

10 , . 3 3 20 .. . 10

• * «

100 . ■ . 19-,

'60 : 28

46 2 6.6 9.0 7.2 6

4- ■

, 6 days of this the time per task is not shown as a proportion of the total

time available.

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Table'8: Future EDP

Sub-region Country

NORTH AFRICA ; '

3gypt " :

Sudan

W/ST AFRICA Upper Volta

CENTRAL AFRICA Cameroon

Central African Empire

Congo ■

Zaire •

iiiAST AFRICA Ethiopia.

Tasks

Tasks planned or .contemplated

1976 Population, Housing Buildings '& Establish

ments Census

„, . .,

Vital Statistics.. ..: . • .,. ■ Foreign Trade

Population Censu's '" '

Household Budget Survey' ' ' Industrial Census" ■•-■-•

Industrial and Commercial

Statistics from d'eclajeti'on

of enterprises

* ■ -' '• ■*• ■ :

Fertility Survey :

Household Survey

Processing of Statistics..

and Fiscal Documents

of Plan Comptabl(f" ' 7"■ ' Consumption Budget Survey

Analysis of Industrial '

Statistics *'"' f ;

Analysis of Agriculture Statistics ' * " "

Analysis of Civil Status Statistics ._ ■■.-;.;• -•.;■.■...

National-Census -

Date of incidence

1977-1979

■ -i -

■1977-";

■: '197 7

'" 1980'' ~ '

197 8 '■■;■

"I978 „

-■ j .:

♦ •. •

• • •

...

■ mJ't ' ■-■■

...

■ • . • • • ■.

■ - .-,

■'■■"

1-97-T" ;

•

Estimated No*, and type of records..involved

50'-million "-record's1 ■'■ ' (110 char.)

2 million records

(80 char.) i million records

15 million records 1«5 million records

...

--*■' "<■■■ ■■''-■

■•.'■::■ . "■"• •'::■ -

1 million records (80 char.) 6 000 records (600 char-)

3 000 records (120 char.

& numerics J 200 000 records

(80 char.) ■■

...

-±0-000 000 num'eri'cs""""

Table 8: Future EDP

, v Sub-region ; ■ '■■ t ; Country ; "

EAST AFRICA (Cont'd)

Kenya

■

• ---■■

Lesotho Madagascar i

•

Malawi

Somalia

Swaziland

Tanzania

Uganda Zambia

■

Sources: Replies to

1

Tasks (Cont'd)

Tasks planned or contemplated

Labour Force Survey -, -

World Fertility Survey Manpower.Survey

Rural Development Evaluation

Marketing Surveys ; National Demographic

Survey

-

Household Survey

Employment .Survey <

Population Census

Blantyre Markjet Survey . Under consideration Education1 Statistics ■ ! Employment Statistics Agriculture Statistics Extrnal: Trade: ■: ': '■- Census of Industries Household'Budget Survey'

197^/1977 Tabulations " ;

Population Census

-

Medical. Stores Personnel Records Tazation

Census of Population " ' Census of Agriculture Other Statistical Surveys

ECA questionnaire

■ 'Date of

incidence

May 1977 - April 1978 August 1977

. •. .

All 1977 Jan. - March

1977

1978

■,1977/7-8

Sept. 1977

■ - 1977-

■ 1978/1979 1978/1979 1978/1979 1 '1977/1978 1978/1979

1977-1978

1977-1979

iMay/June 1977

Nov./Dec.1977

January 1978 Sept. "1979

1980-1981

1977

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Estimated,No. & type of records involved

.': ■' ;

'. . 2 500 households

15 000 women

** •

* • •

. 32 000 households

•. •

5 000 records 5»5 million ■

: a ■ 1

19 000 numerics ■ 3 000'numerics ' 180. 000.numerics

20 000-numerics , 15 000 numerics

. 6 000; household's 300 000:tape records '

3 million households.

8 million:tape records

■ 1.5 000 :records7m6nth' 3 000 -records/month"

5 000 records/month 6' million (records 6 million records

20 000 repords/month.'.

.'."■■."•'■*■"-

Tablec.Personnel-System/programmingStaff Sub-region Country"Systems/ Programming Managers Systems Analysts 'vOther;-.... ■Systems''■- ;Specialists

Senior Programme?.Junior-■ Programmers* NORTHAFRICA Egypt Sudan WESTAFRICA UpperVolta i CENTRALAFRICA Cameroon CentralAfricanEmpire Congo Zaire'■ EASTAFRICA Ethiopia Kenya Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Somalia Swaziland Tanzania Uganda Zambia

EUR 12

EURE 4-8 '1

iV

3- 3- i 4a

.3

UR;EURE 1'.1

8 5

2 10■- 4"- 10

i 27 2 6:- Sources:RepliestoECAquestionnaire

.1/ Systems Analysts/Prograr.'mers 2/ Senior Systems -Analyst/!.ystems Analyst

.TOTAL I 3 7 43__20__n 8 «_ - 46 11 2 14 27 i 4

■E:Experienced:,.-.. .U;.Undertraining/;- .R:Recruitmentplannedi^.theshort.andlong-term.

*"d"^td CDCD^ !<• H(DH roco-£■ o ro

To.hlw 10. Personnel Off-line operations and administration Aat^a^igp^^

Sub-region

Country

NORTH AFRICA

Egypt Sudan

DP _{Operation Senior Junior 'Liaison} DP input/ Ether" ^Data

Makers specials .. Qp ' ppV^. *^*i*U aatgt^. jug^ta P^P-^^

*■ E-'U R E U" R- E U R E_■ U" R E

-^ ■■■'12 5 3

• i.

R : E

-. 2 3 4. 12 2 20 1 1 3 170 - 5

R

22 4

R

Data .- -

■ prepv , .,--,:

E :U R

32

Managers/ .

Specialists

Annexes Page 13

"Others

E U . R

WEST AFRICA

Upper Volta

Cameroon — -'■ ' ~

Central African Empire 1 -

Congo - -

Zaire - -

{ orv.i.c j J\-' *ii- t

EAST AFRICA

Ethiopia *** . *" ~

Kenya 'V»*.:"~ ' '"

Lesotho - -

Madagascar •; 1 — -

Malawi 2 1 -

Somalia -" . ■ -~ ~- _ ■ ~

Swasiland — -

Tanzania. - - -

Uganda _ 1. ~

Zambia _~ "

TOTATj

1 1

- 4

- 2 - -' 2 - 86 24

__ _ — —

.. .-.,4!/-

...-> Jj: 2S-^{- 230}

•'.■;-"■ • 3

i 'i

6 -

4 4 12 2

- 5 6 - 13

- 4 - - _6-

■5 _

3 -

8 1 21

:^; Replies to ECA questionnaire, Expatriates

3. - 36 c_£_V5jM'i:_2_1 1g 1

' E: Ex'periended U: Urider training

R: Recruitment planned in the shcrt a

.. -7 3

5 - 1

1 6 -

26 ■

28 - 20 -

c 0

ar-d long-term

10 -

4 _-

2 6 --

25 8 42

2 --

1 —

K- -

6 ~

-r 2

1

2

■3 ' _

• 545 8 6 35 -

³⁷

DP: Data Processing Op: Operation.

22

9 -

60 10 - 20 10 - _ I

2S 3

40 =v-

2 481 34 41

2-' - 7 -

-,- - .■. _ ,. 1

1 17 4 4

TKUHBXi

Page 14 " -

Table 11: Number of staff trained by field of study

Sub-region Country -

Systems Training Programming

Introductory Basis Systems,. Advanced' Systems Assembly Language^ -COBOL- , FORTRAN. ;]RPGII ■'. :O.ther.-high^level° Statistical, nOperating-Systems-*j o *

package

NORTH AFRICA

Egypt ■.

Sudan .-■'

WES.T AFRICA Upper Volta

CENTRAL AFRICA Cameroon' :

Central Afr. Empire

Congo ""

Zaire

EAST AFRICA'

Ethiopia '-'■

Kenya - ''

Lesotho

Madagascar ■ Malawi ~ Somalia Swaziland

Tanzania ■

Uganda

Zambia

2A

2A,8B/2D1 1A,2B/2D1

11B/11E1 11B/11E1

2B/E3

2OB/C

10A,4B IB

13B/10D1

1B/D3 (PAL 11)

6A,20Bi0Dl

2B/D1 2B/D2,D3 3B/D1 1b/D3( ALGOL6O),"

1B/D3(ALGOL681R) and 1B/D3(ML/1)

2B/1C ,1D3 4B/2C, 2D3 5 B/5C 2B/lC,1D3(PL/l)

12A/2C,

8D2,2D3

2B/2E1

12A/2C,

8D2,2I>3

IB/El 10B/l0El(RPG)

11B/9C,2E1

(autocoder)

3B/4C,2D3,4E\

1B/C,E3 3A/3D3

—

-

• - - — "-

; -

-1B/E3(PLAN)

_

—

-.

■ _ ..'

•-"" _

12B/9C,

3D3,9E1 3E3

- 3B/E3

3/C 6B/C

1/D2 ...

6A-4B

2B/2C,2Ei

.2B/E3 1B/E3

'3B/C- ' -

i'^ ■" _

6A,3B -2B-

4B/2C,2E3(IBM BAl) 14A/3B/D1 -$a/U)1,2E5 ' -

'.;.:iB;( algol)

3i (AL 60L)

2E3 ■■""""

(COMMUNICATIONS) 3E3 (OEORGfE 3)

1B/E2 (CENTS) 1B/D2 (COCENTS)

5B, 4C/lD3( CENTS, 4B/lC, 3I>3/jCL( 0S- CENTS-AND COCENTS '" ■ ~'~' FTJ/

XTALLY)..

4B/4C (SPSS)

2B/D3(CENTS AND

COCENTS)

(cents-aid ii),

/

ib/cc spss 1b/c (cocents) 2B/E3 (CENTS)

Sources; Replies to ECA questionnaire

A: Numbers in training

B s Numbers trained

C: Training within statistical offices or within government

D: Training in United Nations or other non—commercial centres

Dl: within the country

D2: outside the country but within Africa

D3s outside Africa

E: Training at manufacturers or other commercial centres

El: within the country

E2s outside the country but vathin Africa

E3: outside Africa.

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