iGA says will soon release updated sector wise statistics
Manama : The Information & eGovernment Authority (iGA) will soon release its updated data and statistics concerning all sectors in the country, said a top iGA official.
“Work is in progress to soon publish 2017 data in the coming year,” said Acting Chief Executive Shaikh Salman bin Mohammed Al Khalifa.
The data and statistics, according to Shaikh Salman, will comprise all sectors in the country such as health, education, population, area, industry, agriculture and others.
Till now iGA has issued more than 60 monthly and quarterly reports in cooperation with various public entities in 2017.
This, according to Acting Chief Executive Shaikh Salman bin Mohammed Al Khalifa, contributed in “determining the upcoming strategies and ensuring the progress of current development plans”.
He was speaking on the occasion of the GCC Statistic Day, celebrated every year on 24 December.
In this regard, Shaikh Salman praised the efforts of the governmental entities in constantly collaborating, communicating and data updating within the stats field.
It is worth noting that iGA has published the annual booklet titled ‘Bahrain in Figures’ for 2016, available on www.data.gov.bh.
In terms of joint GCC collaboration, iGA had a role in issuing the GCC Common Market Handbook, which included the collection of the Kingdom’s data in collaboration with all governmental entities in order to attain and review statistical data; along with field visits to hundreds of private companies to obtain the required information.
The GCC Stat Center has organised 22 events during 2017, out-of-which 7 were hosted by Bahrain. iGA has also participated with a working paper in the first GCC Statistical Forum and accompanied exhibition, held this year in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Amongst the surveys conducted recently this year by the Authority, with technical support provided by the GCC Stat Center; the Foreign Investment Survey project was carried-out in cooperation with the Bahrain Economic Development Board together with Bahrain Central Bank, in addition to the Tourism Survey Project in collaboration with the tourism sector. Furthermore, periodic reports were published by iGA on the National Accounts, Population statistics of 2017, Inflation Indicators, Foreign Trade statistics along with a range of stats in several fields.
During 2017, more than 14,000 visitors benefited from the Open Data Portal – indicating the level of awareness of Bahraini society in the importance and benefits of these statistics; bearing in mind that work is underway to update the portal and promote greater use by beneficiaries and stakeholders.
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