Cook Islands Agricultural Census 201l: Lessons learnt
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Cook Islands Agricultural Census 201l: Lessons learnt
- 1. Regional Workshop for Monitoring the SDGs related to Food and Agriculture Sector and on the WCA 2020 Nadi, Fiji 6-10 November 2017 Cook Islands Agricultural Census 201l: Lessons learnt Technical Session 17 1 Jim Nimerota Statistics Officer Cook Islands Statistics Office jim.nimerota@cookislands.gov .ck Tavake Manuel Agriculture Officer Ministry of Agriculture tavake.manuel@agriculture.gov. ck
- 2. Contents Background ◦ Census Organisation ◦ Agriculture Census Overview Tabulation, Dissemination and Archiving Highlights Lessons Learnt and Major Challenges Opportunities for Improvement 2
- 3. Cook Islands Statistics Office
- 4. Agriculture Census in the Cook Islands 4 2001 2011 2021 Agriculture Census Statistics Office Ministry of Agriculture FAO/SPC OVERVIEW Conducted every 10 years. Joint Project (CISO/MOA/FAO) CISO – Legal Mandate* MOA – Policy/data users FAO – Subject matter experts Joint Funding (CIGovt & FAO) *Statistics Act 2016 Tabulation 1. The Statistics Office Dissemination 1. Ministry of Agriculture Archiving 1. Both
- 5. Lessons Learnt and Major Challenges 5 Tabulation 1. National Capacity vs Capability Dissemination 1. Balancing Data Accuracy vs relevance of Agriculture statistics 2. Clashes Competencies: Analytical vs. creative/conceptual Archiving 1. Weak practice 2. No policy or procedure FTE 30+ FTE 10 or less Organisational Structure 1. Full Time Equivalent (FTE) 2. Job Design 3. Career Development
- 6. 6 CAPACITY ISSUES OF A SIDS NATIONAL STATISTICS OFFICE
- 7. Overview of Capacity Building Needs. 7 New CISO Development Needs New Development Barriers Increase Internal Capacity FTE Staff N#: 30+ in 1997 to 8 in 2017 More Technical Support from SPC SDD (SPC) is being downsized Financial Support from FAO "Not a donor organisation" Donor financial support Possible ODA Graduation 2018 2019 2020 2021 Labour Market Assessment Financial Exploratory Surveys System of National Accounts Balance of Payments Tourism Satelite Account Labour Force Survey Pop Census Agriculture Census ODA Assessment
- 8. Opportunities for Improving the Agriculture Census 2021 Organisational restructuring Dissemination Framework Joint budget proposal bid. Identify and build internal capacity, then capability. Trail CAPI in the upcoming Labour Force Survey. Incorporate lessons learnt into Census design for Population & Housing Census 2021 and/or Agriculture Census 2021 Metadata Documentation Incorporate FAO expert advice into Census design phase. 8
- 9. 9 Statistics Clerk Statistics Officer Senior Statistician Government Statistician Director/ Manager National Accounts National Accounts CPI & BOP Vital & CPI GFS, ICT & Agriculture Migration Miscellaneous International Trade Strategy Planning Dissemination International Trade CensusandSurveys ElectoralOffice Organisational restructuring
- 11. Thank you 1
- 12. 12 a) The Cook Islands Statistics Office used a range of Software and hardware in order to capture, process, tabulate and disseminate agriculture statistics: Hardware Kodak Scanner i1420 Standard Desktop computers Software Optical/Intelligent character Recognition Software: Readsoft and Kodak Desktop Capture Pro Census and Survey Processing Software (CSPro) Tabulation and visualisation software: Microsoft Office Suite: - MS Access - MS Excel - MS PowerPoint Documentation and Archiving Software: Nesstar Publisher Tabulation, Dissemination & Archiving
- 13. 13 Tabulation, Dissemination & Archiving
Editor's Notes
- Introduction & Background (up to two slides): historical outline of agricultural censuses in your country; legal basis and cens organization; international collaboration/assistance: census budget (by sources of funding), technical assistance
- Strategically, it requires the successful development and management of the capabilities covering methods, processes, standards and frameworks, IT systems and people skills that underpin an CISO’s ability to conduct not just an Agricultural census but all of our new statistical initiatives.
- An analysis of the changes that your country plans/can introduce regarding the Census Tabulation, Dissemination and Archiving in the next census of agriculture.
- Tailor made dissemination products to suit the audiences’ level of statistical literacy on our dissemination framework.
- a) The Cook Islands Statistics Office used a range of Software and hardware in order to capture, process, tabulate and disseminate agriculture statistics: Hardware Kodak Scanner i1420 Standard Desktop computers Software Optical/Intelligent character Recognition Software: Readsoft and Kodak Desktop Capture Pro Census and Survey Processing Software (CSPro) Tabulation and visualisation software: Microsoft Office Suite: MS Access MS Excel MS PowerPoint Documentation and Archiving Software: Nesstar Publisher
- Overall Census Constraints and Challenges The baseline budget assigned to conducting a Population and Housing Census was not enough to effectively carry out all phases of the census let alone the inclusion of Several Agricultural Census forms. Tabulation While the CISO had Capable staff of carrying at the Agriculture Census Tabulation, the organisation didn’t have the capacity to do both the Agriculture and Population & Housing tabulations while simultaneously compiling and publishing all other regular statistical series. Additional funding was required and the tabulation was outsourced to one of the CISO staff to tabulate after hours. This enabled him to stay on top of his daily responsibilities and ensure his 3 statistics series where published on time. Dissemination A majority of Agricultural stakeholders had Low statistical Literacy which in turn reduced the effectiveness of disseminating agriculture data. Archiving The archiving phase of the census could have been handled better. The process should have taken place through out all phases of the Census instead of waiting until the end, after completing the dissemination phase. The reality of operating in a small NSO is that staff are stretched thin over multiple outputs and this makes it easy for things to slip through the cracks when time is short. Unfortunately, Archiving is one of the first things to be dropped when time runs out and the pressure piles on.