Thursday, 10 December 2009 03:22 DAP-NEWS
(Posted by CAAI News Media)
JICA, and the Cambodian Ministry of Planning have announced there were about 376,761 “establishments” in Cam bodia at the Release of the Final Results at the National Institute of Statistics on Wednesday.
Chief Representative of JICA for Cambodia Yasujiro Suzuki said that “I would like to congratulate the Cam-bodian Ministry of Planning on the release of the final results of the Nation-wide Establishment Listing of Cambodia 2009.”
Yasujiro said that JICA supported to the National Institute Statistics (NIS) since 1999.
“JICA provided training to more than 600 statistical staff through technical cooperation,” he added.
Senior Minister, Minister of Planning Chhay Than said on the release that “The NIS has stopped to conduct the establishment survey since the Asia Development Bank (ADB) project has finished in 2003.”
Chhay Than added that through JICA support, NIS has conducted establishment surveys and the 2009 nation-wide establishment listing of Cambodia.
He said that “In 2011, the NIS will produce the master frame of the establishments for the economics surveys and produce census frame for economic census of Cambodia.”
If data is not used properly, value for the qualified and updated official statistics will be lost, Yasujiro stressed.
“I am looking forward to an intense discussion among participants to make the maximum usage of the Nation-wide Establishment Listing,” he said.
“We will improve our knowledge, skills, and capacities of both the NIS and provincial staff to support 2011 economic census,” Than continued.
“For Cambodia, we need the results of the establishments, because it gain the information to current situation of economics, it will provide the benefits such as policy makers, NGOs, private sectors, researchers, and other development partners.”
Cambodian Director General of the NIS San Sy Than said that JICA project assistance has helped improve official statistics gathering in Cambodia.
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