The CountrySTAT  Tanzania

 The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) is the Central Statistical Office of Tanzania. It conducts Censuses and Surveys which yield a wide range of economic, social and demographic statistics.

Being the central of all official statistics it has been chosen to coordinate the CountrySTAT activities in the country as it conducts Agriculture Sample Census which Countrystat tool is based on disseminating the Food and Agriculture statistics.

National Bureau of Statistics in collaboration with Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives; Ministry of Water and Irrigation; Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries; Ministry of Industries and Marketing; Prime Minister’s Office, Regional Administration and Local Government; Office of the Chief Government Statistician,  Zanzibar; and Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Environment, Zanzibar and Tanzania Revenue Authority  is working on data collection for dissemination through the Countrystat website. The CountrySTAT  Secretariat is formed of four people as shown below in which each member has different assigned tasks.

Tanzania CountrySTAT secretariat composition

Ms Joyce Urassa	Mr Oswald Ruboha	Mr. Faraja Komba	Ms. Beatrice Rwegoshora
Principal Statistician	Principal Economist	Computer Systems analyst.	Computer Systems analyst.
National countrySTAT coordinator	Data quality assurance  before publishing to the CountrySTAT website	System maintenance, updating and supporting users of CountrySTAT system	System maintenance, updating and supporting users of CountrySTAT system
National Bureau of Statistics	Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives	Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives	National Bureau of Statistics

National Institutions involved in the CountrySTAT  Tanzania

CountrySTAT Tanzania success story

Advocacy Meetings: CountrySTAT  TWG meetings have been organized to collect data and metadata on crops, livestock, livestock products, forest products, irrigation and trade data  (export values for crop products) from respective ministries, departments and agencies.

These data are collected while in Excel format, therefore they are transformed into Px- Edit and finally uploaded on the CountrySTAT website.

Interview: CountrySTAT communication consultant once performed an interview with Countrystat Secretariet and made videos from the interview to create awareness on the existing of CountrySTAT system.

One of the Technical Working Group meeting held	TWG members of CountrySTAT Tanzania pose for group photo

Relation to FAOSTAT

The CountrySTAT Tanzania shall serve as a complementary system to FAOSTAT. The CountrySTAT outputs are designed to load easily into FAOSTAT. This process or flow improves FAOSTAT's capacity to provide high quality statistical data at the international level. It also promotes exchanges of data within countries, between countries and between FAO and countries. Following the FAOSTAT framework, the CountrySTAT Tanzania shall have statistical data series surrounded by statistical metadata.

As envisioned in the development of this system, data from the CountrySTAT, will be uploaded into FAOSTAT. As such, country contributions to international agriculture and food statistics will arrive from only one source. The CountrySTAT will initiate quality control steps at the country level as part of the FAOSTAT data quality monitoring and evaluation system. The benefits derived from improved national statistical systems will be conveyed to FAOSTAT in the form of high quality data contributions from the countries.

CountrySTAT Tanzania Databases

The databases in the CountrySTAT Tanzania are organized according to major domains identified by FAO and under two major groups: CountrySTAT Core and CountrySTAT Sub-national. The core data consist of national data shared with FAOSTAT database while the related or subnational data are those with subnational relevance. This arrangement of CountrySTAT Core and Subnational data provide end-users with the possibility of “navigating” through the databases from either geographic or thematic paths.

Metadata for the National Agricultural Statistics in Tanzania

The CountrySTAT system requires the preparation and publication of good metadata. All the databases and statistical tables posted in the CountrySTAT are adequately backed up by metadata.