1. PRESENTED BY: OTJA TJIPETEKERA
NAMIBIA’S EXPERIENCE AND CHALLENGES IN PRODUCING DISAGGREGATED DATA
PRESENTED BY: OTJA TJIPETEKERA
United Nations Development Account 10th tranche
Sub-regional workshop on Data disaggregation
Lilongwe, Malawi, September 2017

2. Outline
Overview about NSA
Benefits
Sources of data
Challenges

3. Overview about NSA
The Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) was established in 2011 as a state-owned enterprise by an Act of Parliament, Statistics Act, 2011 (No. 9 of 2011) as:
the central statistical authority, and
the coordinator of the National Statistical System among others.
Stakeholders’ engagement Design of questionnaire
- Line Ministries
- State Owned Enterprises
- Academia
- NGOs
The NSA is has moved fro PAPI to CAPI
Dissemination: Statistics App, Websites, offices, Geo-portal

4. Benefits Good Institutional framework
- According to Part II, section 2(g) of the Statistics Act 9 of 2011; Official statistics must be sensitive to distribution by gender, disability, region and similar socioeconomic features.
- The Act also has make provision for establishment of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure, which helps to facilitate the capture of spatial data through cooperation between government bodies and other organs of state;
NSS coordination
Civil registration,
Education,
National Accounts

5. Data Disaggregation and their Sources of data
Main Data Disaggregation
Age, Sex, Gender, Disability, Region (Geographic), Migration
The sources of these data are mainly collected from
- household surveys, like
Namibia Population and Housing Census;
Demographic and Health Surveys;
Namibia Labour Force Surveys;
Namibia Income and Expenditure Surveys; etc.
- Administrative Statistics (Civil registration, Education)
- GIS

6. Challenges
No repository system in Namibia yet
No proper coordination of the NSS- Low manpower
Administrative data- accessibility
No race/ethnicity statistics produced in Namibia to meet the SDGs requirements
Data available for Disability and migratory status but not much analysis are done
Quality – harmonization of concepts, structure, etc