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Abuja, Jan. 20, ’25 (TNZ) The Gambia Bureau of Statistics (GBoS) is undertaking a study tour at the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) as part of efforts to enhance its statistical capacity.
TheNewsZenith reports that Mr Adeyemi Adeniran, the Statistician-General of the Federation, announced this on Monday in Abuja.
Adeniran said the one-week tour is for knowledge sharing to advance initiatives in the African continent.
“The GBoS will learn a lot in terms of new ways of producing data, application of technology and innovation of data production.
“They will gain insight on how to apply international standards and best practices in data production.
“GBoS team has come to learn from us in Nigeria how we produce our national agriculture sample census and the sample survey that followed it.
“They also want to learn how we can produce labour force statistics quarterly for many years without failing.
“We revised our methodology of computing labour force and labour market statistics in recent times. This conforms with ILO standards that all countries are using.
“As attestation to that, the GBoS is coming to learn how we were able to accommodate the new methodology,” TheNewsZenith quotes Adeniran as saying.
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Earlier, Nyakaasi Sanyang, the Statistician-General of GBoS, commended Adeniran for his commitment to the development of statistics in the West African sub-region.
Sanyang encouraged the NBS boss to keep up the momentum.
He said the tour would allow GBoS to learn best practices, innovative methodologies and effective data production techniques from the NBS.
“We are here to learn something we do not know and it was not by accident.
“We made consultations with our development partners, the World Bank and they researched for us.
“Nigeria is the best place for us to go and study how the Labour Force Survey and the Agricultural Census Survey are conducted.
“So, we need to go and learn the innovative ways of conducting agriculture census and quarterly labour force survey.
“Nigeria is a big country in Africa. Therefore, its position is critical in moving statistics forward in Africa,” TheNewsZenith quotes Sanyang as saying. (TNZ)
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