International Seminar on Official
Statistics : meeting Productivity and
New Data Challenges
Tianjin, China , 24-26 October 2013
DAW Chaw Chaw
Assistant Director
Central Statistical Organization
Introduction
• The Central Statistical and Economic Department
( CSED ) was formed under the Statistical Act ( Act
No 34 of 1952 ). The CSED was reorganized as
Central Statistical Organization ( CSO ).
• The Central Statistical Organization ( CSO )
regularly collects, conducts, analyses and
presents social and economic statistics to
authorities, International organizations and users.
Responsibility
 CSO is the focal office responsible for compiling
and presenting timely and reliable data to users
for formulating social and economic plan and
presentation of reports and research papers.
 CSO is close cooperation with government
departments and organizations and also ASEAN
Stats, ESCAP, SIAP, UNICEF, FAO, EASCAB, IMF,
UNFPA, and other international organizations in
order to improve its statistical activities and to
provide updated data and publication to those
organizations and agencies.
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Objectives
 To compile reliable and timely data to be used as
basis for formulating long-term and short-term
economic plans.
 To present economic and social situations of the
country in terms of statistical indicators.
 To develop and consolidate statistical methods and
techniques for collecting and presenting data and
provide others departments in statistical field.
 To exchange published data with those of UN
organizations and agencies to make further studies by
means of international comparison.
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Data collection System
Data are collected from respective social and
economic sectors by three ways.
• 1.Statistics provided by concerned agencies.
• 2.Statistics jointly compiled by agencies
concerned.
• 3. Statistics obtained from surveys.
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Myanmar Statistical System
• Myanmar Statistical System is decentralized.
• Every Ministry has own planning and statistical
units.
• Those units are compiling their own data
independently to serve their own purpose.
• The CSO is responsible for compiling, conducting,
analyzing and presenting economic and social
data and to render assistance with the help of the
data towards the economic development of the
country.
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Data Dissemination
• CSO has long been disseminating social and
economic data by printing text and tables.
They are given in book form. Like all the other
CSO, Statistical Yearbook is the main one,
relating to time-series for ten years. Urgent
data are given in the Selected Monthly
Economic Indicators. There consists of daily or
monthly data.
• Since 2012, CSO entered new area. Previously,
CSO was situated in the capital, as of the main
organization, without branches. Last year, CSO
was reorganized and expanded by recruiting
of one hundred staffs and empowered. New
branches are opened in all state and division,
including major cities. Special assignments are
given to them.
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Challenges facing of CSO in Myanmar
Statistical System of Myanmar is a decentralized
functioning on a national level since 1952
many departments have statistical units to meet their needs.
 statistics is facing various challenges.
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Challenges
1. CSO needs to amend the Statistical authority Act
2.National Statistical Coordination Board should be formed as new
organization
3. To capture of private sector data in timely and regularly
4.Need to fulfill the data gaps such as environmental statistics, tourism
statistics, trade statistics and some indicators such as HDI, Happiness
Index and Well-being Index
5. Frequency of census & survey to estimate the absence of real data
6. Need of human resources, financial assists, technical support and IT
resources
7. Consistency in data from different sources8. Timeline of data &
reports
8. Timeline of data & reports
9. Plan for National Statistical Development Strategies to overview,
monitor and evaluate management system for statistics
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Problems
• Cooperation between private and public sector is
a must.
• Myanmar needs to enhance its people
qualifications and capabilities to improve human
resources Development program.
• Private and public sector officials should meet at
least once a month in order to produce sound
relationship, to facilitate their works ,to solve the
difficulties, to obtain suggestion and
recommendations.
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Conclusion
• CSO is producing macroeconomic statistics
and providing those statistics to authorities,
international organizations and users.
• And also CSO dispatches its staff to participate
in training, workshop and seminar at home
and abroad for Capacity Building and to
improve the ability , knowledge and
technology.
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