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STS479 Ola A.
In addition; PCBS took the responsibility to modernize the national
statistical system as a whole and create strong monitoring system for SDGs,
by working on different levels, institutional level, national, and international
levels, the following milestones represent the journey of change:

I. Institutional Level (Strong statistical system)
PCBS is responsible for official statistics and to provide statistical requirements
of SDGs agenda, it was important and critical to take a revolutionary way to
continuously strength and modernise statistical system specially under rapidly
changing conditions in conflict and crises, clear and steady steps were taken
as follows:
 Special general directorate was created “Registers and Statistical
Monitoring Directorate” with main task is to fulfill the statistical
requirements of SDGs, developing national monitoring system, and
working on improving the use of new data sources.
 Investing in IT infrastructure and moving to electronic data collection
starting with full electronic compilation of the Population, Housing, and
Establishments census, 2017.
 Geographical information system (GIS), statistical data are linked to GIS for
the importance of geographical dimension in statistics to assure the
coverage of remote and vulnerable areas in addition to analytical aspects.
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 Adapting the Generic Statistical Business Process Model (GSBPM) – “This
model describes the core business processes undertaken by statistical
organizations to produce statistical outputs. It can help statistical
organisations to find common processes across organisation to reduce
inefficiency and redundancy”.
 Creating platforms, which deals with (Production, Process, and
Dissemination) with cooperation with international institutions.
 Changing capacity building methods programs and area of interest to
move to open data, big data, and data science.
 Creating a communication strategy which is aimed to enhance and
improve the way of communicating statistics to create an atmosphere for
statistical literacy and in a way that lead to better use of data by users.
 Investing in dissemination tools to create the culture of statistics and reach
different groups for example PCBS conducted a theatre play which
addressed gender discrimination issues, two rounds of school
competitions were organized to raise statistical awareness for school,
students, videos depending on real testimonies to wide spread statistics
awareness.

4 UNECE. (2018). Report of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe High-level
Group for the Modernisation of Official Statistics.
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