National Strategy for the Development of Statistics

Implementation Support Project

Latest mission

In the period 5-19 March 2022, a third set of expert missions to Dhaka are scheduled. The Team Leader, Romesh PAUL, Key Expert on Coordination of the National Statistical System, Jose L. CERVERA and Key Expert on Population Census, Silvan ZAMMIT, will meet BBS and the World Bank Supervision Mission. The WB mission is intended to monitor the implementation of the project, which is advancing despite the delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic. An important topic for the mission is the rescheduling of activities after the project extension until February 2023. In addition, two Workshops on the Use of Administrative Registers was organized on 9 and 14 March 2022 with representatives of several ministries and the Bangladesh Bank. During the workshop, good practices in establishing Memorandums of Understanding for data sharing were discussed as part of the technical assistance.

Training on fundamentals of labour statistics and QLFS questionnaire

The second 2-day subject matter training on Fundamentals of Labour Statistics and QLFS questionnaire held on 24-25 of November 2021 complemented the technical assistance consultancy done by the international key expert on LFS. The principal objective of the training was to enhance the capacity of participants to contribute to the meaningful development of the Labour Market Information System in Bangladesh, in particular the collection of appropriate and accurate data in line with international standards and the interpretation of statistics obtained in light of national policies and circumstances.

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Signature of MoU between BBS and Bangladesh Bank

DevStat is proud to be a part of this important step towards the improvement of the availability and quality of official statistical information which was confirmed by the signature of the Memorandum …

Codes and syntaxes

The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics approved the use of the international standard Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) for disseminating the metadata for micro-data related to official surveys. The su…

Third expert mission to Dhaka

In the period 5-19 March 2022, a third set of expert missions to Dhaka are scheduled. The Team Leader, Romesh PAUL, Key Expert on Coordination of the National Statistical System, Jose L. CERVERA and K…

Training on fundamentals of labour statistics and QLFS questionnaire

The second 2-day subject matter training on Fundamentals of Labour Statistics and QLFS questionnaire held on 24-25 of November 2021 complemented the technical assistance consultancy done by the intern…