UNDP Kosovo UNKT Technical assistance to the IT department of the Kosovo Agency of Statistics (KAS) Technical analysis of information technology in the national statistical system ICT in the Kosovo National Statistical System - Baseline review and Recommendations for development April 2013 by Arij Dekker, Consultant in statistical data processing and management [email protected] ICT in the Kosovo National Statistical System - Baseline review and Recommendations for development 1 Contents List of Acronyms ...................................................................................................................................... 3 Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................. 5 Chapter 1. Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 7 Chapter 2. Methods of information gathering .................................................................................... 9 2.1 Description of interview partners and question clusters ........................................................... 9 2.2 Other information sources ..................................................................................................... 12 Chapter 3. The present state of ICT in the Kosovo national statistical system ................................... 14 3.1 Summary of information gathered from the interviews .......................................................... 14 3.2 Other applicable information ................................................................................................. 17 3.2.1 Information from the Web ............................................................................................. 17 3.2.2 Development plans and assessments.............................................................................. 20 3.2.3 Current IT resources ....................................................................................................... 21 3.3 State of the art: summary ...................................................................................................... 23 Chapter 4 Considerations for the future of ICT in the Kosovo national statistical system ..................... 26 4.1 Further analysis of the Question blocks .................................................................................. 27 4.2 The role of ICT in national statistical agencies – emphasis on Kosovo ..................................... 33 4.2.1 ICT components – hardware ........................................................................................... 34 4.2.2 ICT components – software ............................................................................................ 35 4.2.3 Human resources ........................................................................................................... 40 4.2.3 Data integrity and security protection ............................................................................ 42 4.2.4 Some budget issues ........................................................................................................ 43 4.3 Other related topics ............................................................................................................... 44 4.3.1 The role of international organizations ........................................................................... 44 4.3.2 Quality management ...................................................................................................... 45 4.4 Integrating the components ................................................................................................... 46 Chapter 5 Conclusions ........................................................................................................................ 48 5.1 For the national statistical system .......................................................................................... 48 5.2 For the Kosovo Agency for Statistics ....................................................................................... 50 Annex 1. References ............................................................................................................................. 54 ICT in the Kosovo National Statistical System - Baseline review and Recommendations for development 2 Annex 2. Meeting reports ..................................................................................................................... 55 Kosovo Agency of Statistics ................................................................................................................ 55 Department of Economic Statistics ................................................................................................ 55 Department of Agriculture and Environmental Statistics ................................................................ 61 Department of Social Statistics ...................................................................................................... 65 Department of Censuses and Surveys ............................................................................................ 71 Department of IT and Methodology ............................................................................................... 75 Line Ministries and other partners in the national statistical system .................................................. 78 Annex 3. Contacts ................................................................................................................................. 84 ICT in the Kosovo National Statistical System - Baseline review and Recommendations for development 3 List of Acronyms API Agricultural Price Index ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange ASYCUDA Automated System for Customs Data CAPI Computer-Assisted Person Interviewing CD Compact Disk COICOP/HICP Classification of Individual Consumption According to Purpose/Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (Eurostat guideline) CPI Consumer Price Index CSPro Census and Survey Processing (software) DBMS Database Management System DFID Department for International Development DHS Demographic and Health Survey eDAMIS Electronic Data files Management and Information System (Eurostat web portal) EAA Economic Accounts for Agriculture EMIS Education Management Information System ESMS Euro-SDMX Metadata Structure Definition ESS European Statistical System FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FYROM Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia GDDS General Data Dissemination System – dissemination standard supported by IMF GDP Gross Domestic Product GIS Geographic Information System GovKos Government of Kosovo HS Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System ICD-10 International Classification of Diseases 2010 ICR Intelligent Character Recognition (OCR with advanced computer support) ICT Information and communications technology IEA International Energy Agency IFC International Finance Corp., a member of the World Bank Group IHSN International Household Survey Network ILO International Labor Organization IMF International Monetary Fund IMPS Integrated Microcomputer Processing System IPC International Programs Center (US Bureau of the Census) ISCED International Standard Classification of Education ISCO International Standard Classification of Occupations ISTAT Italian National Institute for Statistics IT Information technology KAS Kosovo Agency for Statistics KCB Kosovo Central Bank KEK Kosovo Energy Corporation ICT in the Kosovo National Statistical System - Baseline review and Recommendations for development 4 LAN Local Area Network Linux UNIX -like operating system named after Linus Torvalds LMIS Labor Market Information System MDB Microsoft access DataBase file (a file format) MICS Multi-Indicator Cluster Survey NACE Statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community NRME National Reference Metadata Editor NSS National Statistical System OCR Optical Character Recognition OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development PAF Performance Assessment Framework PDA Personal Digital Assistant (hand -held computer) PDF Portable Document Format, patented by Adobe Systems, U.S.A. PHP Hypertext Pre-processor (web-oriented programming language) POS Program of Official Statistics RAMON Reference Architecture for Metadata O N-line (Eurostat RAMON server) RDBMS Relational Data base Management System RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computer SAS Originally: Statistical Analysis Software; now stands for a commercial system for business analytics marketed by SAS Inc. of Cary, NC, USA SBS Structural Business Survey SDMX Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange SEESAC South-Eastern and Eastern Europe Clearinghouse for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons SIDA Swedish International Development Agency – an important donor to KAS SILC Statistics of Income and Living Conditions SOK Statistical Office of Kosovo. Now renamed Kosovo Agency for Statistics, KAS SPSS Originally: Statistical Package for the Social Sciences; now stands for a commercial system for business analytics. In 2009 SPSS Inc. was acquired by IBM SQL Standard Querying Language Stata Data analysis and statistical software system TA Technical assistance ToR Terms of Reference UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and development UNDP United Nations Development Programme UNFPA United Nations Population Fund UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNICEF United