Presentation on

SAARCSTATwebsite

By:

Tariq MalikMember (Support Services/IT)

Pakistan Bureau of Statistics

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History of SAARCSTAT Website

o First meeting of the Heads of

Statistical Organizations of SAARC

member states was held in Kolkata.

FBS DP Centre Islamabad was assigned

the job to develop SAARCSTAT Website.

DDG(c) was nominated as Coordinator of

SAARCSTAT website from Pakistan.

26-27 May 2005

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History of SAARCSTAT Website

First meeting of Coordinators of

SAARCSTAT Technical Sub-Groups and

Second meeting of Heads of SAARC

Statistical Organizations was held.

It was decided in the meeting that Pakistan

will prepare first draft of the designs of the

SAARCSTAT Website.

16-17 April 2008

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History of SAARCSTAT Website

SAARCSTAT Website Draft Design

Websites of different statistics organizations/SAARC member

states were presented/compared/discussed to get ideas.

Base-paper was sent to all the member states for comments.

The data of common interest was identified.

Based on the data/proposals from the SAARC member states

four draft designs were prepared and circulated among

Member States through SAARC Secretariat for

comments/approval.

In the light of comments received from the member states, the

final draft design was updated.

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History of SAARCSTAT Website

SAARCSTAT Website Draft Design

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History of SAARCSTAT Website

Third meeting of the Heads of SAARC

Statistical Organization was held in Bhutan.

All SAARC Member States were requested

to send final comments/feedbacks.

Final Design was updated based on the

comments/feedbacks received.

18-19 November 2010

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History of SAARCSTAT Website

The Standing Committee considered and

approved the Report of the Third Meeting of

the Heads of SAARC Statistical

Organizations, with the following

observations:

o Efficacy of SAARCSTAT needs to be enhanced.

5-9 February 2011

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History of SAARCSTAT Website

In the light of Dr. S. K. Nath’s study report titled “Enhancement of Efficacy of SAARCSTAT by Developing Web-based, User Protected Interface and Institution of a Statistical Cell” the SAARCSTAT website was restructured / re-

developed accordance with the chapter 3 “Framework for development of SAARCSTAT web-based user-protected interface”

The website was launched at url: http://www.saarcstat.org/

24 April 2012

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SAARCSTAT Website

Developed, configured and hosted in-

house (apart from trade database of

import-exports)

Dedicated Web Server, hardware and

software provided by Pakistan Bureau of

Statistics

Supported by Dr S K Nath

Thanks to SAARC, ADB

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TECHNOLOGIES USED

Drupal (Content Management System)

PHP (Scripting Language)

Database (MySQL)

HTML 5 and XHTML

Cascade Style Sheets (CSS)

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Web Sever (Apache)

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Issues

• Focal Persons from each member

state for updating of contents

• Future Plan?

• Any Question?

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SCREENSHOT

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STRUCTURE OF WEBSITE: HOME

About SAARCSTAT

Meetings of Heads of National Statistical Offices

Terms of Reference

Action Plan

Contacts at NSOs

Recognition

Message for National Statistical Offices

Standard Format for data transfer

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TRAINING

About Training

Training Courses identified for SAARC nations

SAARC Statistical Training Centre (SSTC)

Training News

Workshops Held

E-Learning

On-line Training Programme

On-line Course on HH Sample Surveys

Assorted Training Materials

Useful Links

Virtual Statistical System

ISEC Course by Indian Statistical Institute

UNSIAP, Japan

World Integrated Trade Solution

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KNOWLEDGEBASE

Knowledgebase

What is Knowledgebase

SAARC Nations Statistical System

SAARC Development Indicators: Country Reports

Downloads from ADB, WHO, UN, WB and other

International sites

Papers contributed by members of SAARC nations

Useful Links

United Nations Statistical Commissions

Statistical Report and Publications brought out by UNSD

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PUBLICATIONS & REPORTS

Publications

Disaster Management Statistics

SAARCSTAT Publications

Statistical Reports / Manuals

SAARCSTAT Informal Sector Report

SAARCSTAT Health Statistics Manual

SAARC Commissioned Project Reports

UN Reports / Manuals

Trade Felicitation Reports

World Bank Country Reports

OECD Indicators – Country Reports

Other Reports on Trade Felicitation

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SAARC IN FIGURES

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KEY STATISTICS

About

About Key Statistics

Trade Statistics

Merchandise Trade

Trade in Services

Trade Felicitation

Macro Economic Statistics

Real GDP

Domestic Investment

Value Added by Sector

Financial Statistics

Social Statistics

Education

Population and Demography

Vital Statistics

Health Statistics

Labour Statistics

Poverty

Tourism Statistics

Tourism

Transport and Electronic

communication Statistics

Transport

Electronic communication

Energy Statistics

Energy Statistics

Environmental Statistics

Forest statistics

Pollution Statistics

Natural Disaster Statistics

Natural Disaster statistics

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TRADE DATABASE

About

About Trade Database

Merchandise Trade Statistics

SAARC Exports by months

SAARC Imports by months

Time series of Total Exports from SAARC

Time series of Total Imports into SAARC

Balance of Trade over Years

Inter SAARC Exports to Partner Countries

Inter SAARC Imports from Partner Countries

Intra SAARC Exports among SAARC Countries

Intra SAARC Imports among SAARC Countries

Exports by Country and Commodity

Imports by Country and Commodity

SAARC Exports by regions

Trade Statistics Summary

Top 20 commodities imported by SAARC

Top 20 commodities exported from SAARC

Top 20 countries of SAARC imports

Top 20 countries of SAARC exports

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LINKS

Links

SAARC Country links of Statistical Office

SAARC Country other useful links

Links to Organizations

ADB

UNSD

IMF

World Bank

ESCAP

UNSIAP

FAO

UNIDO

WTO

PARIS21

ASEAN

EUROSTAT

OECD Statistics

ILO

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WIDGETS

MEMBER COUNTRIES CLOCK

COUNTER

DASHBOARD: MACRO-ECONOMICS INDICATORS

SOCIAL MEDIA

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INTRODUCTION TO SAARCSTAT NEW WEBSITE

The SAARCSTAT Website is a CMS based website

developed in Drupal 7.

Drupal is an open source platform for building robust,

flexible websites. It's used by thousands of

organizations and businesses around the world, it is

Easy to use, Dynamic, Global, Extensible, Open

Source and Secure.

The frontend of SAARCSTAT website is developed by

using HTML5, CSS and JQuery, while PHP and

MySQL are used for backend. Apache web server is