CAPMAS

1. EGYPT Central Agency For Public Mobilization and Statistics CAPMAS www.capmas.gov.eg

3. Ahmed El Bishehy General Director of Population Censuses (Statistical Sector) Sohair Metwaly Statistician of Demographic Statistics and Censuses (Statistical Sector)

4. Contents • Introduction • The Strategy of Social Statistics • Interaction between Users and Producers of Social Statistics • Adopting International Statistical Standards • The Main Social Statistics in Egypt • Facts about Status of Social Statistics in Egypt

5. Introduction In Egypt the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) is the official source of providing all the State's Statistics, has a long experience in data collection. For example, conducting population censuses in modern era, are held every 10 years since 1882. Vital statistics system has existed since 1912. Fertility and family planning surveys at the national level were conducted since 1980. Social statistics have been produced to include all areas of statistics relating to people and their living conditions. This broad definition would include some aspects of demography, health, education and training, labor, income, consumption and wealth, housing and mobility.

6. The strategy of Social statistics Demonstrating the importance of maximizing the use of social statistics in Egypt, CAPMAS has set up a strategy to develop Social statistics as follows: Subscribing to the IMF Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS) . Adopting the definitions of the United Nations and its organizations in all Statistics such as, modifying the definition of active persons to follow the U.N definition of labor force. Keeping strong relationships with all ministries, special councils and even non-governmental organizations to facilitate transferring data from and to all these Organizations.

7. The strategy of Social statistics cont. 4 Specifying a coordinator in most of data sources organizations to speed up obtaining data and keeping quality in timely manner. 5 Also, making direct contact and hot line (using the internet for delivering data to CAPMAS if aplicable) with data source organizations. 6 Conducting a large household survey called ‘Master Sample Survey’ to serve all kind of field surveys including social statistics; it is updated every five years. 7 Updating the frame of work for each statistics. 8 Adopting a good and extensive training programme for both field staff and data collectors.

8. Interaction between users and producers of official statistics There is no doubt that official statistics are produced to be used by different users. In other words, official statistics should respond to the user needs in terms of topics to be covered, format of the data dissemination , periodicity, etc… In Egypt, to strength the interaction between the users and producers of official statistics, some steps have been done such as asking data users about their opinion in the questionnaires and their content, and so on. Establishing a National Information Center (NIC) to facilitate obtaining the data for users.

9. Interaction between users and producers of official statistics (cont.) All data are now within your reach wherever you are, in your office or home, whether in or outside Egypt, around the clock. A system called Egypt-Intranet has been developed where all statistics produced by CAPMAS are being uploaded on databases to serve data users in the demographic, economic, social fields and others. The data is updated on regular basis. Some of these data users need to subscribe to Egypt Intranet System.

10. Adopting International Statistical Standards The national statistical organization of Egypt (CAPMAS) is strictly kept abreast of the international standards, definitions and concepts due to their close relationships with the UN Statistical Department as well as the statistical divisions of different international organizations

11. The Main Social Statistics Publications I -General Statistics: 1 -Statistical Year Book 2- Egypt in Figures II: Censuses: 1- Population, Housing &Establishment Census III-Health Services Statistics: (1) Annual Bulletin of Medical First Aid Statistics. (2) Annual Bulletin of Health Services Statistics IV- Education Statistics: (1) Education Bulletin of Schools, Institutes and Training Centers not supervised by either The Ministries of Education, Scientific Research Centers or Al-Azhar.

12. The Main Social Statistics Publications (cont.) Education Studies: A- Universities & High Institutes Graduates (Governmental – Private) . B-Highest Degrees attained. (Diploma – Master-PHD). C-Technical institutes graduates (Commercial- Industrial -Health - Tourists & hotels- nursing and medium social service) D- University Education in Egypt (Governmental - Private) E- High & Technical Institutes Education in Egypt (Governmental - Private) Sector F- Statistical Bulletin on number of intermediate technical education Graduates (Industrial, Agriculture, Commercial – Industrial Apprenticeship).

13. The Main Social Statistics Publications cont. Labor, Household Budget & Consumption Statistics : (1) Annual Bulletin of Employment, Wages and Working Hours. (2) Annual Bulletin of Civil Employees in the Gov. Public sector & Public Business Sectors. (3) Annual Bulletin of Labor Injuries in Public/ Public Business/ Governmental and Private Sector( 50 Workers & More) . (4) Annual Bulletin of Labor Force Sample Survey (5) Quarterly Bulletin of Labor Force Sample Survey . (6) Expenditure, Consumption and Income Survey conducted every 2 years starting from survey 2008/2009 . C- Labor Studies: (1)- Foreigners working in Governmental and Public Sector bodies . (2)-Investment and Private Sectors. (3)-Egyptian Citizens working abroad (temporary migration) 2007

14. Facts about status of social statistics in Egypt Nowadays, social statistics have taken the priorities for the government in Egypt. And that helps CAPMAS do its best to make these statistics develop and update. The following gives highlights on the situation of social statistics: In Educational Statistics: the number of enrolled pupils in schools at all levels of education and drop-outs from each level for both sexes are available from the recent record system of the Ministry of Education, and CAPMAS disseminates them directly after revising in reasonable time.

15. Facts about status of social statistics in Egypt In Health Statistics, CAPMAS has done a good firm coordination with the Ministry of Health to support the Health Statistics and that helps for: Updating the work frame, raising the quality of data collected, calculating a good neo-natal, post-neonatal, infant and child mortality rates, in addition to all other rates of mortality for all age groups, and that reflecting the reality of the health statistics.

16. Facts about status of social statistics in Egypt In Labor Force statistics, CAPMAS has a big sample survey of labor force statistics since the 1960s. There are four rounds every year to collect data to include the seasonality of work. And a quality control group has been established in recent decades to control all stages until dissemination. CAPMAS has modified the definition of active persons since the UN modified the definition of economically active persons in 1980 to involve workers in both formal and informal sectors. And CAPMAS keeps up-to-date with international recommendations.

17. Facts about status of social statistics in Egypt In PovertyStatistics, because of the importance of this statistics in development, the main data source for poverty line in Egypt is the Household Income, Expenditure and Consumption Survey (HIECS), carried out every five years by CAPMAS. The government asked CAPMAS to conduct this survey every two years instead since 2008. The following tables show the main stages to produce the following statistics such as the type of data, data sources, data collecting and periodicity of dissemination. 17

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