Improving Agricultural Statistics in the COMCEC Region
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OPPORTUNITIES
 Leadership in the developing world in the
area of agricultural statistics
 Census of Agriculture in 2014
 Use of area frame sampling
 Multiplication of Online Agricultural
Statistics Database
 The new constitution making it compulsory
for all data generated by public money to
be made available to the public
THREATS
 Size of informal sector(home production and
consumption)
 International organization requests not
consistent with national needs and priorities
 Political pressure on statistics at MINADER
 Retirement of experienced staff and non-
replacement
NEEDS
 Agricultural population to differentiate by sex, age and level instruction of farming
households
 Communication policy for CountrySTAT through the whole country
 Satellite and quarterly accounts for agriculture
 Surveys of irrigated land, Censuses of greenhouses; farm structure, production cost;
Production and input utilization accounts
 Consistency check of statistics produced and used by different institutions
 Addition and amelioration of IT
 Evaluation and audit of major statistical surveys and reporting of confidence intervals
 Need of office equipment, survey equipment for the 2014 Agriculture Census
 Strengthening statistical coordination among the various partners