The Emerging Data Revolution in Africa Strengthening the Statistics, Policy and Decision-Making Chain. [electronic resource] :
- Stellenbosch : African Sun Media, 2015.
- 1 online resource (516 p.)
Description based upon print version of record. Recommendations to international organisations
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Tables, Figures and Text boxes -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Text Boxes -- Foreword -- Motivation for writing the book -- Dedication -- About the Author -- Winner of the prestigious Prof. P.C. Mahalanobis International Prize for Statistics, 2005 -- Acknowledgements -- Measurement -- Preface -- Poem on 21st Century Statistician1F -- Acronyms -- Chapter 1 Background -- 1.1 Introduction -- Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: strategies to promote growth and reduce poverty -- Integrating for development -- Benefiting from globalisation Strengthening institutions and capacity development -- 1.2 Information and knowledge society -- 1.3 Results-based management and managing for development results -- 1.3.1 Introduction -- Historical perspective on public sector management -- Results-based management versus managing for development results -- 1.3.2 Results-based management -- What is result-based management? -- What is a result? -- Results chain -- Results framework or matrix (World Bank, 2012) -- Why RBM? -- Key features of RBM -- Application of the RBM in NSO -- 1.3.3 Managing for results -- Concept -- Some milestones in MfDR 1.3.4 Mapping statistics onto policy cycle -- Examples of aligning statistics to policy outcomes -- Example 1: Statistics and the National Development Plan and Medium-Term Strategic Framework in South Africa -- Example 2: Statistics and the National Development Plan 4 in Namibia -- 1.3.5 Indicators, targets and baseline data -- Indicators -- Targets -- Baseline -- Monitoring system -- 1.3.5 Statistics is now a development issue, not just a technical issue -- 1.4 Official statistics -- 1.4.1 What are official statistics? -- 1.4.2 Statistics that are not official 1.4.3 Variegated menu of uses for official statistics -- 1.5 Statistical Development in Africa: a historical perspective -- 1.5.1 Prior and early post-independence statistical development -- Statistical training centres -- National statistics Offices and their status -- Statistical legislation -- International concepts -- 1.5.2 Main statistical programmes in 1970s, 1980s and 1990s -- African Census Programme -- The African Household Survey Capability Programme (AHSCP) -- The National Accounts Capability Programme (NACP) -- The Statistical Training Programme for Africa (STPA) The Statistical Development Programme for Africa (SDPA) -- 1.5.3 Administrative data and registration system -- Administrative data -- Registration systems -- 1.5.4 Infrastructure -- 1.5.5 Statistical atrophy in 1970s and 1980s -- 1.5.6 Addis Ababa Plan of Action for Statistical Development in Africa in 1990s -- Recommendations to national governments -- Statistical development -- Organisation of Statistical Services -- Work programme -- Statistical committees -- Establishment of statistical priorities -- Statistical training -- Seminars -- Data quality and dissemination