Tanzania Socio-Economic DatabaseTanzania/UNCT Presentation to ECOSOC:

Implementing the Internationally agreed Development Goals: National Perspectives and Strategies

July 7, 2005, New YorkCletus P. B. Mkai

National Bureau of StatisticsUnited Republic of Tanzania

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What is TSED?• TSED is an indicator and database system; facilitates

systematization, storage and analysis of performance indicators; allows user-friendly access to data and presentations in Maps, Graphs, Tables and Reports; allows grouping of indicators in different frameworks, e.g. integrating MDGs, PRS, etc

• It is institutionally based at the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), and supported by over 20 Government Ministries and Institutions, including Bank of Tanzania. Maintenance and updating is done at NBS. TSED has been a good example of how successful partnerships between the Government and its bilateral partners (UNDP and UNICEF) can be.

• TSED is currently running on stand-alone and on web (www.tsed.org) – Tanzania is one of the two countries piloting this DevInfo web version

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Why a common database?

Data not easily accessible: disperse in various institutions; restricted use within Ministries and Institutions; format not easy to access, read and process; no proper documentation (definitions /metadata)

Enhance statistical capacity and literacy – Two focal points in more than 20 TSED collaborating Ministries and Institutions continuously being trained on how to use and update the database.

Support evidence-based advocacy – as a database, TSED allows public advocates to monitor progress of international, regional and national goals and commitments

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Who are the target users of TSED?

1. Increasing use for policy design and implementation– Government officials / Parliamentarians– Local Government planners and policy makers – Staff involved in day-to-day policy making and planning – NGOs – Staff of NBS incl. Regional Statistical Officers– Donors

2. Stimulating public monitoring of policy– VPO– NBS– Universities and research centers

3. Improving social communication– Media

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Where is data from?Line Ministries

Routine data collection systems e.g. Ministry of Education, Health, Water, Agriculture

Surveys/CensusesPopulation and Housing Census, Household Budget Survey,

Demographic and Health Survey, Integrated Labour Force Survey, etc.

Special research conducted in various areas– Data from various sources available in TSED is disaggregated

by gender, rural/urban strata and age groups

– Data available at national, regional, district [ward level data for pop counts]

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Use of TSED in Poverty Monitoring

• TSED as a tool for storage and dissemination of all quantitative information is at the very heart of the poverty monitoring systems. Most of the MDGs and targets are incorporated

– To highlight priorities using empirical data– To inform the public and policy makers on progress on

Poverty reduction indicators and MDGs– To trigger action to meet time-bound targets– To contribute towards the design of policies based on

evidence– To create public interest in progress at home and abroad

• Database contain Themes highlighting Poverty (currently), Goals highlighting MDGs and Sector.

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TSED Database

Indicators by Themes

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TSED Database

Indicators by Goals, e.g. MDGs

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MDG 1, Target 1 – Food Poverty Line

1415

2322

8

13

2019

0

10

20

30

DSM Other urban Rural Total

91/92 00/01

Population below the Food PL

9

Population below the Food PL

0

5

10

15

20

25

1991/92 2000/01 2011/12 2015

present rate

MDG 1, Target 1 – Food Poverty Line

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MDG 1, Target 1 – Basic Needs Poverty Line

28 29

4139

18

26

3936

0

10

20

30

40

50

DSM Other urban Rural Total

91/92 00/01

Population below the Basic Needs PL

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Population below the Basic Needs PL

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

1991/92 2000/01 2011/12 2015

present rate

MDG 1, Target 1 – Basic Needs Poverty Line

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MDG 4, Target 5 – Under five Mortality

Census 2002

Dodoma

Arusha

Ruvuma

IringaMbeya

Tabora

Rukwa

Kigoma

Shinyanga

Singida

Manyara

Kagera

Mwanza

Mara

Kilimanjaro

Morogoro

Lindi

Tanga

Pwani

Mtwara

Dar-es-Salaam

Kaskazini UngujaKusini UngujaMjini Magharibi

Kaskazini PembaKusini Pemba

Regions Districts

Deaths per 1,000 live births58 - 133134 - 163164 - 175176 - 217

Missing data

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Under five mortality

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

1992 1996 1999 2004 2007 2015

present rate

MDG 4, Target 5 – Under five Mortality

DHS series. Note: The figure for 2004-05 TDHS is 112 per 1,000 from the Preliminary Report

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Under five mortality

0

50

100

150

200

250

1978 1988 2002 2007 2015

present rate

MDG 4, Target 5 – Under five Mortality

Note: The figure for 1978, 1988, and 2002 are from Population Censuses

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MDG 2, Target 3 – Net Enrolment

Trend for 1996 - 2004

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Years

Pe

rce

nt

NE

R

Total

Male

Female

Source: BES 2004

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TSED facilitate disagregation…..

Dodoma 71

Arusha 81

Ruvuma 88

Iringa 89 Mbeya 97

Tabora 65

Rukwa 76

Kigoma 69

Shinyanga 77

Singida 81

Manyara 77

Kagera 80

Mwanza 92

Mara 79

Kilimanjaro 81

Morogoro 78

Lindi 79

Tanga 88

Pwani 86

Mtwara 87

Dar-es-Salaam 89

Northern RegionSouthern RegionWestern Region

Northern PembaSouthern Pemba

Per cent

54 - 7071 - 8081 - 96Missing Data

Primary NER - Regions

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Primary NER -- Districts

Per cent

54 - 7071 - 8081 - 96Missing Data

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MDG 5, Target 6 – Births attended by skilled Health Personnel

DHS 1996

19.6 – 32.9

33 – 44.4

Missing Data

44.5 – 86.7

Dodoma

Arusha

Ruvuma

IringaMbeya

Tabora

Rukwa

Kigoma

Shinyanga

Singida

Manyara

Kagera

Mwanza

Mara

Kilimanjaro

Morogoro

Lindi

Tanga

Pwani

Mtwara

Dar-es-Salaam

Kaskazini UngujaKusini UngujaMjini Magharibi

Kaskazini PembaKusini Pemba

Lake Rukwa

Lake Tanganyika

Lake Burigi

Lake VictoriaLake Ikimba

Lake Nyasa

Lake Eyasi

Lake Kitangiri

Lake Manyara

Lake Natron

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MDG 7, Target 10 - Accessibility to safe drinking water

57

76

59

5748

21

54

59

37

38

39

47

53

35

77

61

29

50

27

37

88

Lake Rukwa

Lake Tanganyika

Lake Burigi

Lake VictoriaLake Ikimba

Lake Nyasa

Lake Eyasi

Lake Kitangiri

Lake Manyara

Lake Natron

21 – 38

39 – 57

58 -88

Per Cent

Census 2002

Regions Districts

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Opportunities and challenges offered by the MDGs framework• Opportunities

– There was in place a national policy framework and poverty monitoring system, that made integration of MDGs easy

– TSED is at the very heart of the poverty monitoring system; facilitating storage and dissemination of all quantitative information generated by the poverty monitoring system i.e. from the routine data collection systems and Surveys and Census.

• Challenges– To collect/collate the full complement of data sets to compute

indicators under a number of targets e.g. target 9 (Goal 7)

– Always producing indicators allowing addressing equity issues in relation to MDGs, i.e by sex, rural/urban strata, regions and so forth, in order to strengthen the national policies and strategies and make them more targeted and effective

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Thanks You for listening….

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