UNSD – DFID project:
Update for the 4th Workshop, Building
better dissemination systems
Improving the collation, availability and dissemination of development
indicators (including the MDGs)
Progress to date
As at 1 April 2014, the following activities are completed:
- 7 countries with MoUs still in place (4 payments still to be
disbursed)
- 3 international workshops & 1 specialized training on
XML/XSLT conducted
- 11 SDMX installation/ training missions
- 16 DSG consultancy missions (5 jointly with UNSD)
- 6 Metadata national workshops conducted
- 4 countries made study visits
- 2 launch events organised by country
Progress to date
As at 1 April 2014, the following outputs are
completed:
- All project countries feature in CountryData
- Over 400 indicators, almost 800 time series and
over 4,500 observations exchanged
- 2 new “draft” metadata handbooks completed as
well as 7 countries now share metadata
- Over 100 “core” indicators paired and the
discrepancy explained for around 80% of those pairs
Dissemination model
Line Ministries
National Statistical Office
Line
Ministry
Database
National
Repository DB
United Nations
Post
DevInfo
notification
Upload
Mapping
tool
Scripts
Publish
SDMX-ML
XLS
Register
files
National
Indicator
Registry
Download
Identification of priority indicators
• 10 countries selected MDGs as starting point
for the project;
• 1 country started with a set of mainly nonMDGs (Cambodia)
• And 3 countries (Palestine, Thailand & Viet
Nam) looking to expand beyond MDGs
Central data repository (platform)
• Data repository status as of April 2014;
Country Name
Burundi
Cambodia
Ghana
Lao PDR
Liberia
Morocco
State of Palestine
Rwanda
Thailand
Uganda
Viet Nam
Type
Status
DevInfo
Online
DevInfo
Online
DevInfo
Online
DevInfo
Online
DevInfo
Online
Other
Offline
DevInfo
Online
DevInfo
Online
StatXchange Online
DevInfo
Online
DevInfo
Online
Linked
from main
website
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
N/A
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Latest
Hosted Version Data
DSG
6/7
2011
Local
7
2012
Local
6
2011
Local
6/7
2012
DSG
7
2007
N/A
N/A
2010
Local
6/7
2012
DSG
7
2011
Local
N/A
2011
Local
7
2012
Local
6/7
2012
Data exchange with line ministries
• National repository receiving data/ metadata from
health/ education ministries as at April 2014, as
follows:
Number
Burundi
Cambodia
Ghana
Lao PDR
Liberia
Morocco
State of Palestine
Rwanda
Thailand
Uganda
Viet Nam
Total
2
1
0
1
2
0
2
2
2
2
0
14
Target (2014):
18
CountryData SDMX
Data Exchange
National Statistical Office
National
Repository DB
CountryData
Web Site
1. Publish
6. Publish
and Visualize
SDMX Dissemination
Site
CountryData DB
2. Register
International
MDG DB
5. Upload
4. Download
3. Notify
National
Registry
CountryData
Web Service
DevInfo Mapping tool
• Most of development under DevInfo software
complete;
• Training workshops carried out in Bangkok,
Addis Ababa and Nairobi with 11 project
countries as well as in Casablanca (in
collaboration with ESCWA).
SDMX in DevInfo: 3 Steps
+
New look
CountryData contains the number of MDGs as at
April 2014, as follows:
Outcome 2 MDGs on CountryData
Country
Burundi
Cambodia
Ghana
Lao PDR
Liberia
Morocco
State of Palestine
Rwanda
Thailand
Uganda
Viet Nam
Total
Actual
Number
52
27
10
55
17
12
30
34
23
24
26
"Potential"
Number
60
43
36
55
40
43
32
44
47
67
32
Percent
complete
87%
63%
28%
100%
43%
28%
94%
77%
49%
36%
81%
310
499
62%
Target (2014):
180
Metadata availability
CountryData contains the number of MDGs as at
April 2014, as follows:
Output 2.2 "Core" MDG with metadata on CountryData
Country
Burundi
Cambodia
Ghana
Lao PDR
Liberia
Morocco
State of Palestine
Rwanda
Thailand
Uganda
Viet Nam
Total
Number of
Number of
"Core" MDG "Core" MDG
reported to with metadata
CountryData in CountryData
18
16
12
12
3
0
19
0
9
0
11
0
10
10
12
0
10
2
10
1
11
0
125
Percentage of
“core” MDG
with metadata
reported to
CountryData
89
100
0
0
0
0
100
0
20
40
0
44
* Each countries contribution to the Total is weighted by 1/11 (i.e. 0.09)
32*
Target (2014):
91%
Metadata availability
• 8 countries intend to share metadata through
SDMX registry, 3 do fully (Burundi, Cambodia and
Palestine), 2 partially (Thailand & Uganda) and 1
shared a draft handbook (Ghana)
• Of the 3 who will share via a handbook, only 1 has
a draft complete (Lao PDR).
Discrepancy analysis
“Core” discrepancy status as at April 2014:
Output 3.1 "Core" MDG discrepancy explained on CountryData
Country
Burundi
Cambodia
Ghana
Lao PDR
Liberia
Morocco
State of Palestine
Rwanda
Thailand
Uganda
Viet Nam
Total
Number of
"Core" MDG Number of
available in "Core" MDG
national
reported to
repository CountryData
18
18
12
12
15
3
19
19
16
9
15
11
11
10
16
12
17
10
20
10
15
11
174
125
Number of
"Core" MDG
with a
discrepancy
explained in
CountryData
16
12
3
13
8
9
10
9
8
3
1
Percentage of
“core” MDG
reported to
CountryData
and
discrepancy
explained
94*
100
100
68
89
82
100
75
80
50
27
96
79**
* No valid discrepancy comparison is possible for 1 indicators submitted by Burundi
because data errors prevent a valid comparison being made.
** Each countries contribution to the Total is weighted by 1/11 (i.e. 0.09)
Target (2014):
91%
Thank you for your attention
Sources of further reference:
http://data.un.org/countrydata
http://data.un.org
http://unstats.un.org