National Statistical Office

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The National Statistical Office is the national statistics office of Malawi . The headquarters of this institution is in Zomba . There are regional offices in Blantyre , Lilongwe and Mzuzu .

Legal basis

The most important legal basis for the statistical authority of Malawi is the National Statistics Act of 2013. It defines the establishment of the authority with its tasks, the position of its head, the Commissioner for Statistics and the establishment of the National Statistical System .

structure

The headquarters are the official seat of the Commissioner of Statistics and his deputy ( Deputy Commissioner of Statistics ), as well as the general administration, bookkeeping and personnel administration. The Commissioner of Statistics is appointed by the President of Malawi.

There are also three main departments:

Economics Division

In this area, data on questions of foreign trade , the state budget , the employment sector, the consumer price index , the balance of payments, economic activities, industrial production , the risk of poverty and tourism are collected and evaluated. This is where the annual Economic Survey , the five-year Integrated Household Survey and other special research reports are created.

Demography Division

This area is responsible for censuses , which are carried out every ten years. The work of this department includes further demographic analyzes, such as the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), a survey on health issues in the population.

Agriculture Division

This section collects data on the rural regions of Malawi. An important publication is the Core Welfare Indicator Questionnaire (CWIQ). This involves questions of the common good and welfare aspects.

Publications

The National Statistical Office provides several printed and digital publications. These are for example:

  • Statistical Yearbook , published annually, online from 2001
  • Quarterly Statistical Bulletin , published quarterly
  • Monthly Statistical Bulletins
  • Malawi: An Atlas of Social Statistics, 2002
  • Integrated Household Survey
  • Demographic Health Survey
  • Population and Housing Census
  • NSS Strategic Plan

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ National Statistical Office: About the NSO . at www.nsomalawi.mw (English)
  2. ^ Republic of Malawi: National Statistics Act, 2013 . online at www.nsomalawi.mw (English)
  3. ^ National Statistical Office: Statistical Yearbook . at www.nsomalawi.mw (English)
  4. ^ National Statistical Office: Quarterly Statistical Bulletin . at www.nsomalawi.mw (English)
  5. ^ National Statistical Office: Malawi: An Atlas of Social Statistics . at www.nsomalawi.mw (English)

Coordinates: 15 ° 22 ′ 38.4 ″  S , 35 ° 19 ′ 25.9 ″  E