"http://www.countrystat.org NBS acts as a customer oriented statistical office, through producing relevant statistics."

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26th January 2014

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• Legal framework and mandate
• Role of NBS
• The road forward
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Legal
framework
•The Federal Law No. 1 of 1972 concerning the role of ministries
•The Federal Law No. 9 of 1974 concerning the role of statistics
•The Federal Law No. 9 of 2009 concerning establishment of NBS
Scope of work
•Developing the statistical strategic plan.
•Methodological standardization of methods / measures for official
statistics
•Coordination, capacity building (training), statistical awareness
•Quality control of reliable, and comparable statistics
Purpose •Collecting, classifying, analyzing and dissemination of official
statistics
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By Law …
•It is responsible for preparing a national statistical system, and
will report directly to the Cabinet.
•The bureau shall be considered the sole official statistical
source for the state and the source of its official statistical data.
•Government Agencies and Local Statistical Centers are
obligated to provide statistical data as required by the Bureau.
•Federal Government Agencies shall provide the necessary
support to the Bureau and shall provide statistical data to it to
enable the Bureau to perform its mandate.
By good
practices …
•Statistics are the raw materials for producing information.
•Statistics is public good.
By need …
•NBS acts as a customer oriented statistical office, through
producing relevant statistics.
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NBS
Users &
producers
Government
Sector
Legal
environment
Private Sector
Respondents
Local
statistical
offices
Having NBS in this
point implies:
1. Its role and
responsibility in
developing the NSS for
the UAE.
2. Its role as the reference
for its official statistics.
3. Its role as national
aggregator and
methodological and
quality referee for all
statistical work in UAE.
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• Short Introduction to NBS
• Role of NBS
• The road forward
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NE
Statistical
Sources
Administrative
recordsHow to insure:
1. Consistency
2. Accuracy
3. Timeliness
National DBSC DS NE UAE
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How to avoid:
1. Contradiction
2. Mismatch
3. Burden
4. Overlaps
5. Duplication

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Rationalize
planning and
decision making
process
Collection
&
processing
&
Dissemination
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Better use and
allocation of
resources
The cost of implementing wrong policies is much
higher than producing relevant statistics
Develo
pment
process

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Decis
ions
Stats

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Surveys,
censuses
Admin.
Records
Urgent
Statistics;
FI, KPIs ...
Collection
&
Coverage
• Regular statistical program for official
statistics.
• New updated sampling frames
• Consistent national sample
• Same statistical classifications,
• Complete data set from admin. sources
should be available for population register
based census
• All admin. Sources must facilitate the role
of NBS and data flow on time.
• Fixing the dates for data collection in the
three working areas
• Reporting data against KPIs
• Finalizing FI survey 2011 mid 2011
• Modeling and projections tools are in force
Most
Relevant
Statistics
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• Short Introduction to NBS
• Role of NBS
• The road forward
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Official program:
1. Economic Surveys and aggregates .
2. Population and social statistics, Admin. Records
oriented.
3. Environment, agriculture statistics
4. Statistical frames and updates, under process.
5. Aggregating UAE statistics.
6. Introducing ISO standards in official statistics.
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Introducing GIS and IT solutions in statistical work:
1. Establishment Census in Ras Al Khaymah 2011.
2. Establishment census in Al Sharjah 2012.
3. Producing the first ever Statistical atlas
4. Launching the Standards and methodology gate
5. Developing the project Flash Estimates for
economic performance UAEQind. 2014 - 2016
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National statistical network / society:
1. Preparation phase: stakeholders map was
accomplished with around 63 members.
2. Bilateral meetings were conducted, 22 MoUs.
3. Technical work in preparing Admin. Records in
relevant parties are in progress.
4. Preparation for phase 2 where flow of data
should take place is under development.
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Data dissemination:
1. Improving the access to NBS data – Smart
applications.
2. Developing UAE National Statistical Data Center.
3. Moving to dynamic data base (interactive and
modern visualization) with Portal Website .
4. Improving the role of the training center in
capacity building and statistical awareness for
NBS and NSS resources, more than 75 courses
and 1500 trainees.
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In cooperation areas:
1. Activating NBS regional and international
relations, a lot of productive participations.
2. Developing twinning arrangements with relative
partners, Korean, ISI.
3. More active role in international statistical
expert groups; energy, establishment frames …
4. Exchange and share knowledge through bilateral
agreements and study visits .
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Looking forward
for extra growing
role of NBS role;
Through the
implementation of
2014 – 2016 strategic
plan