THE ROLE AND MANAGERIAL ISSUES OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN STATISTICAL DEVELOPMENT

In the rapidly changing world and in the globalizing era, the global focus on statistics is increasing. The National Governments realized that the right use of better statistics is essential for good polices and development outcomes. This recognition requires more accurate and timely statistics supported by new information technology environment. Moreover, a national statistical institution is a large data warehouse containing primary data such as data on persons, enterprises and administrative units, and compiled data and information in the form of statistics covering most sectors of society. Statistics are based on both data collected directly by the statistical institution and to an increasing extent on data from administrative registers. Use of information technology is crucial both for data collection, compilation, storage, analysis, presentation and dissemination of statistics, and technology is today the backbone of our activities. This research work examines the role and managerial issues of information technology in statistical development.