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vii. SWOT Analysis and Needs Assessment for Agricultural Statistics in Morocco
Table 45: SWOT Analysis and Needs Assessment for Morocco
STRENGTHS
 Existence of legal and institutional
infrastructure for statistics
 Use of up-to-date methodology
 Use of international norms and classifications
 High quality human resources
 Traditional domains (Production, Inputs,
Prices)
 International Trade data
 Physical infrastructure for statistics
 No serious budget constraint
 Communication Channels with EUROSTAT,
FAO and UN
 Language (French and Arabic)
 Participation in international statistical
initiatives
WEAKNESSES
 No interactive database
 Mostly hardcopy, limited electronic
dissemination
 Non-availability of micro-data and metadata
and documentation
 Data dissemination system set up for internal
not for external use Agricultural statistics
missing an objective (or philosophy)
 Not policy analysis driven
 Missing domains (Investment, Labor,
Markets, Utilization, Greenhouse, Irrigation)
 Old or missing farm registers
 Ineffective User Dialogue
OPPORTUNITIES
 Leadership in the developing world in the area
of agricultural statistics
 New Census of Agriculture in 2014
 Participation in CountrySTAT
 Area frame sampling
 Online Agricultural Statistics Database
 The new constitution making it compulsory for
all data generated by public money is 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 MAPM
 Experienced staff retirement and non-
replacement
 Statistical data not disseminated and kept for
internal use
NEEDS
 Aligning agricultural statistics to user and policy needs
 A comprehensive, interactive and accessible database on agricultural statistics
 A micro and metadata dissemination policy
 A data dissemination calendar to be shared with the public
 Satellite and quarterly accounts for agriculture
 Censuses of greenhouses; Surveys of irrigated land, farm structure, production cost; Production and
input utilization accounts.
 Consistency check of statistics produced and used by different institutions
 Updating of farm registers
 Evaluation and audit of major statistical surveys and reporting of confidence intervals
 Improving the visibility of the agricultural statistics
 Strengthening statistical coordination among the various partners
 Stopping the erosion of qualified human resources