The Emerging Data Revolution in Africa Strengthening the Statistics, Policy and Decision-Making Chain.

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kiregyera, Ben
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stellenbosch : African Sun Media, 2015.
Temas:
Economic forecasting > Africa.
Prévision économique > Afrique.
EDUCATION / Statistics
Economic forecasting
Statistical services
Africa > Statistics.
Africa > Statistical services.
Afrique > Statistiques.
Afrique > Services statistiques.
Africa
Statistics
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Table of Contents
  • Tables, Figures and Text boxes
  • List of Tables
  • List of Figures
  • List of Text Boxes
  • Foreword
  • Motivation for writing the book
  • Dedication
  • About the Author
  • Winner of the prestigious Prof. P.C. Mahalanobis International Prize for Statistics, 2005
  • Acknowledgements
  • Measurement
  • Preface
  • Poem on 21st Century Statistician1F
  • Acronyms
  • Chapter 1 Background
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: strategies to promote growth and reduce poverty
  • Integrating for development
  • Benefiting from globalisation
  • Strengthening institutions and capacity development
  • 1.2 Information and knowledge society
  • 1.3 Results-based management and managing for development results
  • 1.3.1 Introduction
  • Historical perspective on public sector management
  • Results-based management versus managing for development results
  • 1.3.2 Results-based management
  • What is result-based management?
  • What is a result?
  • Results chain
  • Results framework or matrix (World Bank, 2012)
  • Why RBM?
  • Key features of RBM
  • Application of the RBM in NSO
  • 1.3.3 Managing for results
  • Concept
  • Some milestones in MfDR
  • 1.3.4 Mapping statistics onto policy cycle
  • Examples of aligning statistics to policy outcomes
  • Example 1: Statistics and the National Development Plan and Medium-Term Strategic Framework in South Africa
  • Example 2: Statistics and the National Development Plan 4 in Namibia
  • 1.3.5 Indicators, targets and baseline data
  • Indicators
  • Targets
  • Baseline
  • Monitoring system
  • 1.3.5 Statistics is now a development issue, not just a technical issue
  • 1.4 Official statistics
  • 1.4.1 What are official statistics?
  • 1.4.2 Statistics that are not official
  • 1.4.3 Variegated menu of uses for official statistics
  • 1.5 Statistical Development in Africa: a historical perspective
  • 1.5.1 Prior and early post-independence statistical development
  • Statistical training centres
  • National statistics Offices and their status
  • Statistical legislation
  • International concepts
  • 1.5.2 Main statistical programmes in 1970s, 1980s and 1990s
  • African Census Programme
  • The African Household Survey Capability Programme (AHSCP)
  • The National Accounts Capability Programme (NACP)
  • The Statistical Training Programme for Africa (STPA)
  • The Statistical Development Programme for Africa (SDPA)
  • 1.5.3 Administrative data and registration system
  • Administrative data
  • Registration systems
  • 1.5.4 Infrastructure
  • 1.5.5 Statistical atrophy in 1970s and 1980s
  • 1.5.6 Addis Ababa Plan of Action for Statistical Development in Africa in 1990s
  • Recommendations to national governments
  • Statistical development
  • Organisation of Statistical Services
  • Work programme
  • Statistical committees
  • Establishment of statistical priorities
  • Statistical training
  • Seminars
  • Data quality and dissemination

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