VICE
PRESIDENT U Henry Van Thio, Chairman of the Central Committee for Accurate and
High Quality Statistics, addressed the committee’s meeting at the Ministry of
Planning and Finance yesterday morning.
In
his address to the meeting the Vice President said the committee was upgraded
and reformed in 2018 and was seen to have completed the National Strategy for
Development of Statistics (NSDS) Action Plan. All were urged to maintain the
momentum of progress in 2019. This was the second meeting of the newly upgraded
and reformed committee.
The
Statistics Law enacted in early 2018 had been in effect since 22 January 2019.
Ten statistic sector wise work groups were formed to implement NSDS.
Relevant
work groups were learnt to keep NSDS Action Plan as a Living Document and
implementing it. Cooperation among cluster departments were also learnt to have
strengthened.
Relevant
Union Ministers and state/region planning and finance ministers were urged to
guide relevant statistics work groups on allocation of resources required for
accuracy of statistics and formation of statistics units.
It
was an honor to see Myanmar Statistics Forum 2018 held for the first time as a
platform for improving relations between publishers and users of statistical
information, to provide statistical information and for cooperation among
stakeholders. Action Plans for cooperation among stakeholders were established
at the forum.
The
practice and habit of Data Culture and Statistical Literacy must spread not
only to departments but also to private businesses and the people. Myanmar
Statistics Forum should be held once a year as a platform to raise Statistics
Literacy and cooperation among Stakeholders.
The
Myanmar Sustainable Development Plan (MSDP) was approved just as countries of
the world were implementing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Statistics
that reflects the present moment was required in drawing the MSDP. A National
Indication Framework would be designated and measured in implementing the MSDP.
Data and statistics were required to be recorded at each stage of the work
process in order to monitor the implementation of the plan. Cooperation among
relevant ministerial departments was important for the establishment of the
national index framework, acquisition of data, calculation and measurement
matters.
As
implementation of the Statistics Law there must be consistent, accurate and
timely ground statistics for development of the country. In this regard
participation of all Stakeholders was needed; also there was a need to expand
statistics cooperation mechanism between ministerial departments, central level
and state/region governments.
Committee
members and work groups were urged to participate enthusiastically in the
Central Committee for Accurate and High Quality Statistics meeting and provide
detailed discussion and suggestions.
According
to the saying “Better Data, Better Statistics, Better Life” only with quality
national statistics system can there be information to create development
policies, projects and economic environment for policy makers, planners,
private businesses and socio-economic researchers.
Government
departments, development partners, private sector, civil society organizations,
and media representatives were urged to cooperate under the leadership of
Central Committee for Accurate and High Quality Statistics to obtain good
outcome and for statistics system development to raise the socio-economic lives
of the people, said the Vice President.
Next,
Central Committee Vice Chairman Union Minister U Soe Win explained about
implementing statistics work processes, publishing of quality statistics and
strengthening statistics coverage.
Afterwards,
Central Committee secretary Central Statistical Organization (CSO) Director
General Dr. Wah Wah Maung explained about central committee meetings held,
decisions made at central committee meeting 1/2018, works conducted on enacting
Statistics Law, surveys conducted, capacity building works and publications
made by CSO.
Central
Committee members Union Minister Lt-Gen Kyaw Swe, U Thant Sin Maung, U Win
Khaing, Dr. Than Myint, U Han Zaw, Dr. Win Myat Aye, Central Bank of Myanmar
Governor U Kyaw Kyaw Maung, Nay Pyi Taw Council member U Aung Myin Tun,
state/region ministers and officials then conducted sector wise discussions on
accurate and quality statistics followed by heads of statistical work groups
explaining about sector wise works, status of collecting animal census and
collection of mid-year census.
Chairman
of the Central Committee for Accurate and High Quality Statistics Vice
President U Henry Van Thio commented on the discussions and explanations and
delivered a closing remark. He said accurate and quality statistics were the
image of the country. Therefore, for the country to have a good image the
country’s statistics must be accurate and of high quality. He urged for the
successful implementation of Data Base Centre on statistics. Projects were
drawn with statistics in establishing a country. As such having accurate
statistics was important for the country and all were to work together on it.
Having an accurate and quality statistics was something that couldn’t be done
in a short time as it is was long term work. First was to have accurate and
quality statistics and second was to push toward using it practically. All were
urged to cooperate and participate in the preparation for mid-year census and
agriculture census. A true socio-economic situation would be reflected only
with accurate statistics. Only then could policies be changed as required and
allocation, monitoring and assessment of projects and budget could be made,
said the Vice President.
The
following officials attended the event: Central Committee Vice Chairman Union
Minister U Soe Win, committee members Union Ministers Lt-Gen Kyaw Swe, U Thant
Sin Maung, U Win Khaing, Dr. Than Myint, U Han Zaw, Dr. Win Myat Aye, Central
Bank of Myanmar Governor U Kyaw Kyaw Maung, Nay Pyi Taw Council member U Aung
Myin Tun, state/region ministers, Central Bank of Myanmar Deputy Governor U Soe
Thein, Permanent Secretaries, Directors General, members of work groups
implementing National Strategy for Development of Statistics and officials.
MNA
Photo:
MNA
(Translated
by Zaw Min)
Ref:
The Global New Light of Myanmar
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