Prior to the 2012 seminar, participants were asked to complete an online questionnaire about the organization and practices relating to data collection in their institutions. Below is a summary of the major findings.
Please note that the survey was designed to provide an overview rather than scientific measurements. Only organizations represented at the seminar were invired to take part; some participants were unable to give accurate answers; and many questions were worded in such a way as to elicit approximate rather than precise answers. The goal was to explore the general commonalities, differences, challenges and opportunities faced by the international statistical community with regard to data collection, in order to drive ideas about what work is needed and especially how international collaboration could help.
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Data Sources: |
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How centralized data collection is within NSO's: |
Challenges, Advantages, and Effort associated with data collection:
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*Since the majority of survey questions were text based, the results on this page are qualitative and subject to interpretation.