Main Findings and Challenges in
Compiling the CRESS data in
Ethiopia
Presented at P21 Board Meeting
29 March 2012, Paris
From PRESS to CRESS
The CRESS is a country-led exercise to gather all
data relating to the funding of the entire NSS
whether deriving from national resources or donor
support.
Objective of CRESS
• The ultimate objective is to
improve efficiency of the NSS
through a better co-ordination
and better information sharing.
Scope of CRESS
The CRESS exercise covers activities funded by the country’s
own resources as well as activities funded by financial and
technical partners (FTPs) . i.e.,
• Financing from national resources, budgetary or resources of
NSS units
• Use of loan/credits
• Grants from FTPs (targeted budget support to a sector, aid
projects, or statistical component of a program, for instance
monitoring and evaluation)
Data collection for CRESS
Covers all activities of the NSS, including:
 Recurring statistical production activities (e.g.,
administrative data collection);
 One of data collection activities (e.g., surveys and censuses);
 Dissemination and use of statistics
Experience of Ethiopia in piloting
CRESS
 CRESS is conducted and
implemented by the Central
Statistical Agency of Ethiopia
 Period under consideration: 2009-
2011
Experience of Ethiopia in piloting
CRESS
 38 institutions have been indentified in the NSS to
be involved in the CRESS Exercise
 After distributing the CRESS questionnaire to all NSS
members, the CSA contacted the focal experts and
observed the challenges in filling the questionnaires .
 An attempt was made to discuss in detail on each of
the questions on the form by organizing a half day
seminar with the financial support of P21 .
Lessons Learned from the Pilot in
Ethiopia
 The Challenge of getting the actual amount spent for
statistical activities out of the total budget allotted to
institutions i.e. the difficulty in identifying the statistical
component in a given project be it national resource or
FTPs project.
 In a Federal System like Ethiopia, local governments also
allot budget for some statistical activities where the experts
raised scope of the CRESS whether they should include
districts of the sectors or not. We decided to restrict
ourselves to the resources at Federal Level.
The Challenge of Compiling CRESS
Data at National Level
 After retrieving the filled-in questionnaires from Development
Partners and from all NSS including that of the CSA, the data
was submitted to P21 consultant to help in compiling the data
and to come up with the report.
 However, we realized this task should be done in the country by
national consultant.
 Today’s presentation is limited to the Statistical Support to
Central Statistical Agency as opposed to all NSS, or to the
Country
The loin share of the Country’s
Statistical Support goes to the CSA
That is because:
The Central Statistical Agency (CSA) has two main
mandates:
 Conduct censuses and surveys to collect, process,
analyse and disseminate statistical data
 Provide technical guidance and assistance to
government agencies and institutions in building
administrative statistical systems and registers.
 The CSA is the key coordinating agency in the National
Statistical System (NSS)
Human Resources of CSA
Proportion of statistical staff versus administrative staff
Year
Statistical personnel
Other personnel
Total
Statistici
ans
(1)
Rese
arch
ers
Technician
s
(3)
TOTAL
(1+2+3)
Admin.
Staff
(5)
Others
(6)
TOTAL
(5+6)
(1+2+3+5+6)
(2)
2010
272
-
672
994
342
373
715
1659
2011
267
-
651
918
386
397
803
1721
2012
348
-
645
993
419
397
816
1809
Human Resource Of CSA
Operating Cost of CSA
description
2009
2010
2011
Recurrent budget
USD
USD
USD
Wages and
salaries
2,212,786
1,915,840
2,032,711
Goods and
equipment
249,375
276,013
276,928
Infrastructure(b
uildings)
Total running
expenses
2,462,161
2,191,853
834,670
3,144,309
Capital Expenditure of CSA
Due to periodic surveys such HCES, WMS and DHS in
2011, the disbursement of Development Partners have
increased from 2.8% in 2009 to 50% in 2010 an 65% in
2011
SECTION
Capital Budget
2009
2010
2011
remark
Government
Budget
USD
USD
USD
4,694,224
4,405,754
4,435,855
Disbursements of
Development partners
136,898
4,359,411
8,162,019
Total spending
4,831,122
8,765,165
12,597,874
Statistical surveys
Graph of distribution per section
Annual Surveys (Projects) by Domestic
Resource
 Statistical surveys or projects that are conducted using
domestic resources or national budget:
 Agriculture sample surveys, labor force, price , business
statistics ( manufacturing industry and distributive
trade surveys )… etc
 The resources are shown as follows:
Year
Disbursement
Currency
2009
4,694,224
USD
2010
4,405,754
USD
2011
4,435,855
USD
Major Donors Supported
Statistical Projects (2009- 2011)
Name of
project
Beneficiary
institution
Amount of
financing
Implementatio
n time span
Donors
Protection
of Basic
Services
(PBS)
CSA
2,000,000
2008-12
WB
2,000,000
2008-2009
EC/EU
Support to food CSA,MOA,E
security
MA
information
Name of
project
Beneficia
ry
institutio
n
Amount of
financing
Implementa
tion time
span
donor
Support to
M&E PRSP
&MDGS
CSA
12,017,986
2004-12
Development
Assistant Group
(pooled fund)
Increased
availability
of
population
data
CSA
13,040,500
2006-11
UNFPA,DFID an
others (Pooled
fund)
Living
standard
survey
(LSMS)
CSA
1,986,389
2011-2013
WB/BILL GATES
990,000
2011-2012
Bill Gates
Foundation
Improving
CSA,
Agricultural EMA,
statistics
MOA
methodolog
y
objective
Next Steps
 With the assistance of P21 financial support CSA will hire
a National Consultant to come up with the CRESS report
from this pilot exercise.
 Through this pilot exercise we feel the questionnaires
could be improved for both the data collection and
compilation.
 In doing so we expect to come up with a number of
recommendations for future exercises.
Thank you for your attention