1. BETTER AND PROPER ACCESS TO PACIFIC MICRODATA
Nuku’alofa, Tonga November 2018

2. Have we achieved the outcomes expected from this workshop?
A good understanding of the Microdata Access Project; purpose; process; governance; benefits and challenges;
Member countries that are willing to participate in this project to give their formal endorsement through signing a “Letter of Agreement;”
Identify a counterpart to work with SDD team; and
The next step for NSOs willing to participate.

3. Next steps Step one (2 weeks)
Letter of Agreement with the 8 Government Statisticians
Step 2 (January 2019)
SPC-SDD Generic Agreement with NSOs
Data Licence Agreement
Terms of Use
Capacity building
Regional workshop for focal points
Build future Pacific microdata access champions
Link to USP Official Statistics Course on microdata access

4. Regional statistics development
Strong statistics governance framework
FEMM; HOPS; PSSC; Methods Board
Donor and development partnership program and 5-Year Collection Plan
Methods Board – sampling; HIES; poverty assessment
Microdata access
Our Pacific voices are heard at international forum such as the UN system

5. own statistics development”
“Pacific NSOs
own and lead
their
own statistics development”