1. PRESENTATION ON DATA DISSAGREGATION BY NSO, MALAWI SOGECOA GOLDEN PEACOCK HOTEL 27TH SEPTEMBER 2017

2. Content BACKGROUND DATA SOURCES SDGs….LEAVING NO ONE BEHIND CHALLENGES
CONCLUSION

3. Background
The National Statistics Office (NSO) is a government department which was established in and mandated under the 1967 Statistics Act of parliament which was revised in 2013
The Statistics Act mandates NSO to collect, analyse, publish and disseminate official statistics for evidence based policy formulation, decision making and monitoring and evaluation of development programs

4. Background, Cont’d
The Act also empowers NSO to raise public awareness about the importance and the role of statistical information and promote the use of best practices and international standards in statistical production, management and dissemination.
The Act also empowers Commissioner of NSO to be in charge of the National Statistical System that promotes methodological excellence and standards in the data collection by MDAs
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5. Data sources
The NSO runs a 10 year cycle of censuses and surveys with the Population and Housing Census at each end of the cycle.
Latest examples are:
Malawi Demographic Health Survey (MDHS)
Welfare Monitoring Survey (WMS) 2014
Integrated Household survey 2016 – 2017
Survey on Aging 2017
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6. Data sources, Cont’d Listening to Malawi Mobile Survey
Economic Surveys
Industrial surveys
Monthly Pricing Surveys
Data is collected at District level and analyzed at Regional level, rural-urban and cities
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7. Data sources, Cont’d Administrative data sources
Customs data - Foreign Trade
Immigration data from Exit Cards
Ministry Education – Education Management Information System (EMIS)
Ministry of Health – Health Management Information System (HMIS)
Government Expenditure data
Labour statistics – Labour Market Information System (LMIS)
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8. SDGs...Leaving No one behind
The 2018 PHC has included several questions on disability which came from the Disability experts including questions from the Washington Group on Disability
Also covered under Disability Module are:
Questions on (age, sex, religion, tribe, among others)
Plus question on Albinism
Plus Questions on the Youth and the Aging
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9. SDGs…Leaving No one behind, Cont’d
Homeless, street kids,
Institutions, including orphanages
In the 2018 Population and Housing Census, the smallest unit of analysis is the village
Working in collaboration with
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10. SDGs...Leaving No one behind, Cont’d
Aging
NSO conducted a survey on aging
From Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS), there was an in-depth analysis on the aging and there is a whole report
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11. Challenges
Respondent fatigue as result of many, usually unstreamlined, surveys being conducted using long questionnaires
Likelihood of administrative data not conforming to formats required by data users because of different objectives of data collection
Lack of cooperation from some data providers, response rates declining in some sectors (e.g. industrial data)
Disaggregation of some of the Economic Indicators such as GDP, PPI IIP
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12. Conclusion Data disaggregation is work in progress
Cost of collecting and analyzing that data is high, requiring more commitment in terms of support from Government and Development Partners
Need for more data which most NSOs would not be able to handle alone; more new partnerships with open data producers will be required to certify collected data as official
NSO will guide producers of administrative data so that its use can be enhanced
IAEG
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13. I THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
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