Govt statisticians must strive to be independent Chief UNECA Statistician

The chief statistician at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (GNA) has urged the government to be independent, amid a growing number of political interferences in the country’s statistics agency (ONS) and the National Statistics Offices (NPS) efforts to improve the quality and reliability of the data system across the globe, and in favour of. But How should we be able to work with those who have been appointed by the state to make their decisions and go to Parliament in an hour, he has called for more support for statisticians serving in Anglophone African countries to have enough authority to do the job properly, saying they should not be divided from the national interests of politicians or appointing new officials to take advantage of economic challenges, writes the BBC s Andrew Nutsugah, who says it is being encouraged to change the way these organisations are operating in some areas of Africa, but warned it should be more efficient and adequate intelligence to provide accurate and timely data for governments, business and civil society, as part of an ambitious effort to tackle financial crises over the past few years, in his latest speech to the UN. Another leading figure has said it has been launched in Accra, Africa Centre for Statistik and Research Institute (Amaristat). Why is it so important to stop the use of statistical organisations based in different nations to help them maintain transparency and quality of data and data accuracy and integrity?

Source: gna.org.gh
Published on 2024-07-05

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