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În perioada 26 – 31 mai, DevStat a organizat în colaborare cu Institutul Naţional de Statistică din România un curs de formare privind statistica întreprinderilor adresat funcţionarilor din Biroul de Statistică şi Recensământ din Libia. Cursul face parte din programul de formare ce va fi implementat de DevStat în colaborare cu Driss Afza, expert senior în statistici oficiale (de la ASTATIS) alături de alţi experţi din cadrul institutelor de statistică din state europene şi arabe, pentru a sprijini dezvoltarea competenţelor funcţionarilor din cadrul Biroului de Statistică din Libia, care este în totalitate reînnoit după schimbarea de regim.

Two years after having successfully supported the Information Technology Authority (ITA) of the Sultanate of Oman in analyzing the data of the 2011 Survey on ICT usage in the business sector, DevStat has been contracted to support the implementation of the 2013 Survey on access to and use of ICT by households and individuals.
The services provided, ranging from preparing sample design and survey questionnaire to conducting the data analysis and ensuring the harmonization of the data with international standards, covered all stages of the survey. About 200 surveyors were mobilized through a local company and about 11.000 households visited, interviewing more than 80.000 individuals.
DevStat supports decision-makers in assessing and improving the penetration of ICT through evidence-based policies. Besides Oman, DevStat’s director has trained on ICT statistics experts from other Arab, Latin-American, African, Asia-Pacific and Caribbean countries, being the author and reviser of the UNCTAD and ITU manuals on the subject (links below).

ITU, Manual for Measuring ICT Access and Use by Households and Individuals:
http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/publications/hhmanual/2009/material/HHManual2009.pdf

UNCTAD Manual for the Production of Statistics on the Information Economy:
http://unctad.org/en/Docs/sdteecb20072_en.pdf

In the photo above, the training of surveyors in ITA headquarters, Muscat, Oman

Last December, DevStat has signed a contract with the Bureau of Statistics and Census of Libya to provide statistical training services to its staff. Within this Framework contract, DevStat is organizing 14 training courses in the areas of business statistics, quality, dissemination, transport statistics, etc. Within this program, from the 26th to 30th May, in cooperation with The National Statistical Institute of Romania, a training course in Business Statistics is organized in Bucharest.

 

DevStat has designed a survey about the administrative burden in Romanian enterprises. The survey was executed in 2 phases and was organized within the framework of an technical assistance project financed by the European Social Fund to improve the business environment.

DevStat also implemented a training session to staff of the Ministries of Economy and of Employment, National Statistical Institute and other institutions.

José Cervera, director of DevStat presented the project in the international conference held on 10th April.

More information is available here.

Eurostat reported in December 2013 to the European Parliament and The Council on the implementation of the Community Statistical Programme 2008-2012 referring to a report prepared by DevStat in consortium with CSIL. The evaluation of the 5-year work programme of Eurostat, which was awared to our consortium, was finalised in August 2013, after reviewing the achievements with respect to 130 objectives related to hundreds of activities implemented on the basis of annual programmes. The evaluation was done by combining desk research, in-depth interviews with EU statistics users, a sample of National Statistical Institutes and focus groups with Eurostat staff. The evaluation report has been published by Eurostat and is available here.