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Modernization of Statistical Production and Services

in Asia-Pacific

Marko Javorsek, Statistics Division, ESCAP

International Seminar on Modernizing Official Statistics: Meeting Productivity and New Data Challenges

24 - 26 October 2013, Tianjin, PR China

ESCAP events in modernization

Side event to the Committee on Statistics, Second session – Modernizing statistical information systems, Bangkok 2010

Expert Group Meeting: Opportunities and advantages of enhanced collaboration on statistical information management in Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok 2011

SIAP Management Seminar 2011 – Shifting from “stove-pipe” data producer to “information service” provider

Practical advisory workshop: Supporting effective use of information and communication technology in population census operations, Moscow 2012– GSBPM & SDMX

Expert group meeting: MSIS, Bangkok/Paris 2013

What are the main drivers of modernization?

Creation of a more adaptive and cost-effective information management environment through stronger collaboration– Processes that are more agile and quality assured,

while requiring less resources to operate and maintain

Modernize information systems to address the evolving field of statistics and maintain relevance across developed and developing countries

Regional collaboration and influence global directions– Collaborative efforts are likely to be more cost-

effective and of higher quality

Specificities of Asia-Pacific region in the field of modernisation Cost-effectiveness benefit was assessed to be of less

immediate priority Improved quality could be taken up as a key objective

Concepts, standards and tools are relatively new to a large number of countries in the region

NSOs in the region are most often structured by statistical areas or domains

No transnational legislation on statistics The least developed countries lack the full range of

methodological and information technology expertise

Regional perspective on modernization

CST 3 (2012) proposes the establishment of– High-level strategic body – Network of Experts

Strategic Advisory Body for the Modernization of Statistical Production and Services in Asia and the Pacific (SAB-AP) – The mission is “To raise awareness and build capacity,

particularly related to concepts, methods and standards, to support national modernization efforts”

The Body has 7 members (Australia, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Rep. of Korea, Samoa, Viet Nam) and is chaired by Australia

First meeting of the body in November 2013 in Japan (next month)

MSIS 2013

In 2013 ESCAP joins the organization and MSIS; first time in Asia-Pacific in 2010 in the Republic of Korea

23-25 April 2013 held in 2 venues joined by live web link– Paris – hosted by OECD– Bangkok – hosted by ESCAP

Joint sessions were held Bangkok afternoon and Paris morning time

The meeting discussed the following substantive themes: – Architecture; – Streamlining statistical production; – Innovation; – Collaboration.

Outcomes of the MSIS 2013 (Bangkok)

Participants recommended that – the work of the expert community centre around key priority

areas,– interested practitioners and experts to gather in smaller

working groups.

Key priority areas:– Strengthening national statistical systems (coordination,

information flow in decentralized systems, etc.)– Generic Standard Business Process Model (GSBPM)– Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange (SDMX)– e-collection– Data dissemination– Big data

Figure 1: Schematic depiction of the HLG, SAB-AP and working groups

MSIS 2014

14-16 April 2014 held in 2 locations simultaneously:– Dublin, Ireland hosted by the Central Statistics

Office of Ireland – Bangkok (TBC) hosted by ESCAP

Preparations on-going, call for papers will be sent out soon

The meeting schedule is centered around the following substantive themes: – How IT can contribute to changing organizational

culture;– Standards-based modernization;– Innovation; – Architecture.

ADB/ESCAP Project on SDMX

Direct outcome from the MSIS 2013 EGM Working group (WG-SDMX) will be established under

the auspices of the SAB-AP The primary focus of the project will be to promote the

use of SDMX among national statistical systems in the region and build regional capacities in applying it

The project will focus on– Mapping of DSD for data exchange (reuse global

DSD),– Capacity building on using tools to support

automated data exchange (e.g. Eurostat SDMX-RI).

ADB/ESCAP Project on SDMX (cont’d)

Focus on economic statistics indicators (ADB Key Indicators), most likely limited to NA or BoP in the first stage

Take into account the specific needs of other international organizations collecting economic data (e.g. OECD, IMF, UNSD, WB, etc.)

In the pilot phase focus on 4 to 5 countries in Asia-Pacific

Timeline:– Scoping phase: November 2013 – February 2014– Implementation phase: March – December 2014

Thank you!