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Title

Capacity building at the Kurdistan region statistics office through data collection / Shmuel Abramzon, Nicholas Burger, Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, Peter Glick, Krishna B. Kumar, Francisco Perez-Arce, Alexandria C. Smith.

Author

Abramzon, Shmuel

Publication

• Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corporation, [2014]
• ©2014

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Additional Authors

• Burger, Nicholas
• Ghosh-Dastidar, Bonnie
• Glick, Peter
• Kumar, Krishna B.
• Pérez Arce, Francisco
• Smith, Alexandria C.
• Labor and Population Program, sponsoring body.
• Kurdistān (Iraq). Ḧikûmetî Herêmî Kurdistan-ʻÊraq, sponsoring body.

Description

xx, 75 pages : color illustrations, color maps; 28 cm

Summary

Comprehensive and reliable statistics are crucial for designing economic policies. The Kurdistan Region of Iraq lacks the statistics it needs to improve infrastructure, encourage private-sector development, attract foreign investment, and create sustained economic growth. The Kurdistan Region Statistics Office needs to build capacity to collect the data. RAND worked closely with the office and in consultation with relevant ministries to build capacity by preparing, conducting, and analyzing the first round of a survey of the region's labor force critical to government policymaking. RAND provided overall guidance and both analytical and hands-on training to organization staff. Further, by being involved in the complete life cycle of the survey, from conception through data collection to policy analysis, and by being responsible for the final execution and analysis of the surveys, that staff benefited from learning by doing. Future rounds of the survey will provide up-to-date information on how these and other important indicators are changing over time and in response to policies.

Series Statement

[Research report] ; RR-293-KRG

Uniform Title

Research report (Rand Corporation) ; RR-293-KRG.

Alternative Title

Capacity building at the Kurdistan Regional Statistics Organization through data collection

Subject

• Statistical services
• Kurdistān (Iraq) > Statistical services
• Iraq > Kurdistān

Note

• "Rand Labor and Population."
• At head of title: Kurdistan Regional Government, Ministry of Planning.
• "Sponsored by the Kurdistan Regional Government."
• "RR-293-KRG"--Page 4 of cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 75).

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: ch. One Introduction -- Data Collection in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq -- Improving Data Collection Through Capacity Building -- Workshops to Support Capacity Building -- The Kurdistan Region Labor Force Survey -- Survey Time Line and Frequency -- Recommendations for an Establishment Survey -- Organization of This Report -- ch. Two Sampling Design -- Objective -- The KRLFS Sampling Design -- Rotation Group Scheme -- Workshops and Capacity Building -- Summary -- ch. Three Questionnaire Design -- Activities and Capacity Building for Questionnaire Design -- Design of Previous Surveys and Information Gaps -- Objectives of the Questionnaire Design
• Provide Useful and Timely Data to Inform Policymaking -- Provide Internationally Comparable Information -- Achieve the Above Objectives While Keeping the Respondent Burden Reasonable -- Structure of the KRLFS Questionnaire -- Introductory Information -- Household Roster -- Education -- Labor Force Participation -- Nonworking Cases -- Working Cases -- Part-Time Work and Underemployment -- Summary -- ch. Four Data Collection, Cleaning, and Validation -- Data Collection Process for the KRLFS -- Data Cleaning and Validation -- Workshops and Capacity Building -- Summary -- ch. Five Analysis and Results -- Outline of the KRLFS Analysis Process -- Main Results from KRLFS -- Labor Force Participation -- Employment Rate, Unemployment, and Underemployment
• Unemployment Rate by Age, Gender, and Education -- Number of Unemployed by Age Group and Gender -- Labor Force Indicators by Governorate -- Labor Force Indicators by District -- Full-Time and Part-Time Employment and Underemployment -- Formal and Informal Employment -- Employment by Ownership Sector -- Employment by Activity Sector -- Workshops and Capacity Building -- A Template for Reporting Results -- Summary -- ch. Six Recommendations for an Enterprise Survey -- Objective -- A Cross-Country Comparison of Enterprise Surveys for GDP Calculation -- Recommendations -- Summary -- ch. Seven Conclusions and Next Steps -- APPENDIXES1 -- A. Sampling Design -- B. Rotation Scheme for the KRLFS.

Call Number

JFF 16-486

ISBN

• 9780833085177
• 0833085174

LCCN

2014937297

OCLC

875644300

Author

Abramzon, Shmuel, author.

Title

Capacity building at the Kurdistan region statistics office through data collection / Shmuel Abramzon, Nicholas Burger, Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, Peter Glick, Krishna B. Kumar, Francisco Perez-Arce, Alexandria C. Smith.

Publisher

Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corporation, [2014]

Copyright Date

©2014

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

[Research report] ; RR-293-KRG

Research report (Rand Corporation) ; RR-293-KRG.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (page 75).

Connect to:

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR293.html

Added Author

Burger, Nicholas, author.

Ghosh-Dastidar, Bonnie, author.

Glick, Peter, author.

Kumar, Krishna B., author.

Pérez Arce, Francisco, author.

Smith, Alexandria C., author.

Labor and Population Program, sponsoring body.

Kurdistān (Iraq). Ḧikûmetî Herêmî Kurdistan-ʻÊraq, sponsoring body.

Cover Title

Capacity building at the Kurdistan Regional Statistics Organization through data collection

Research Call Number

JFF 16-486