1. Baguinébié BAZONGO, Statistician
Cross Regional Forum: Making National Statistical Systems fit for the New Data Ecosystem: what needs to be done ?
Integration of digitization in data management at National Institute of statistic of Burkina Faso: Level and challenges
Baguinébié BAZONGO, Statistician

2. Content Presentation of national institute of statistic
Level of digitization (data collection and dissemination)
Implementation of 5th population census
Challenges
Recommendations

3. National Institute of statistic (1/2)
INSD is created in 1974
Missions
Produce official statistic
Population census
Business surveys
Household surveys
DHS surveys
Disseminate statistical information according to national and international standard
Develop and implement capacity building program for NSS
Coordinate NSS

4. National Institute of statistic (2/2)
Staff
Total of 257 workers; 42 women and 215 men; 167 statisticians-demographers; 4 IT professional
Offices
Central office and 3 regional offices
Production
Four population census (1975, 1985, 1996, 2006)
More than 10 household surveys on poverty (1994, 1998, ….)
Four DHS (1993, 1998, 2003, 2010)
Four industrial and commercial census

5. Level of digitization at INSD (1/2)
Only 3 household surveys used Smartphone and tablet to collect data in 2018
Labor and informal sector survey in 2018 (9000 households); data collection ended; currently data cleaning
Households poverty survey in 2018; data collection in progress (7020)
Survey on violence against women in 2018; data collection in progress
However, some institutions of NSS such as department of agricultural statistic and population science Institute (ISSP) integrated PDA in data collection since 2015

6. Level of digitization at INSD (2/2)
Two web sites to share documents insd.bf and
Public data are shared with devices, not available at INSD web site
So, users don’t know what kind of data are available; need to access physically INSD to look for data
Even if data are available, users often experience issues to compute some indicators (sub-level)

7. Implementation of 5th population census (1/2)
5th population census data collection is planed to be done in December 2016
Data will be collected using Smartphone and Csentry application ( Smartphone needed) as recommend by UN
Cost of implementation increases from 12.2 millions in 2006 to 30 millions EURO in 2016 (≈125% because of investment in IT)
Because of lack of money, census is rescheduled for 2017, than 2018

8. Implementation of 5th population census (2/2)
Currently, Smartphones available, Servers and other IT equipments installed, interviewers recruited for pilot
Cartography is done with paper, no outline coordinates; 26,000 Enumeration Areas
Gap of 4,000 Smartphones, 4,000 interviewers, …implies additional cost of 2 millions EURO
IT and statisticians build their first Data Entry application for data collection

9. Challenges (1/2)
Needs of digitization are expressed by partners (World Bank, UNFPA, European Union, WAEMU), not by NSS leaders
Some NSS leaders don’t trust technology; not sure digitization works better than traditional methods
Digitization need more investment, but lot of priorities in the country
Lack of technical skills to design useful application for data collection and data dissemination
Complex procurements procedures (at least 3 months)

10. Challenges (2/2) Low internet coverage (urban areas)
Low coverage of electric power (urban areas)
High level of insecurity (terrorism, robbery)
Lack of places to store IT material
Low IT skills of interviewers

11. Recommendations
Train NSS staff who collect and analyze data in IT, particularly application design
Build a dashboard online to increase data access by users (be able to compute indicators without access micro data)
Increase internet and electric power coverage

12. Thank you for your attention