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| July 22, 2006 | Saturday | Jumadi-ul-Sani 25, 1427 |
Statisticians urged to update numerics
ISLAMABAD, July 21: Parliamentary Secretary on Statistics Dr Rozina Tufail on Friday called upon statisticians to update themselves with facts and figures relating to their respective fields and prepare authentic and reliable data for the country.
She said while inaugurating a week-long training course for statisticians on the STATA software here at the Federal Bureau of Statistics Training Wing.
The one week training course has been organised by the Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS) Training Wing to enhance the professional competency of statisticians.
Dr Tufail expressed the hope that the training courses would help statisticians update their knowledge and enhance their professional skills.
She informed the participants that Statistics Division had recently imported 15 licences of STATA through financial assistance of Department for International Development (DFID) UK.
She said the Statistics Division’s Training Wing would also conduct various courses on important areas of statistics including software like CSPro, SPSS, STATA and Excel as well as inputs/outputs tables, sampling techniques with reference to household surveys and econometrics etc.
During the current financial year, she said GTZ, UNFPA and DFID will provide financial assistance for most of these courses.
The ongoing STATA training will cover the important areas like introduction to STATA, menus and dialogues, basic commands, looking at data sets, data input and output, housekeeping, graphs for exploration, tables for exploration and summary, graphs for presentation, tables for presentation and data management.
Mohammad Younis, principal, Training Wing on the occasion highlighted the activities of the department.
He said the software course would play an important rule for improving the competency of statisticians dealing with data processing of various censuses and surveys.
“It will not only improve the efficiency, accuracy and timeliness but also prove as an advancement in this field of data processing, which will be a new milestone in the history of computing in the Federal Bureau of Statistics that will go a long way towards production of quality statistics,” he said.
Fifteen officers from Statistics Division and its attached departments dealing with collection, compilation and dissemination of statistical data are attending the course. Hammad Ali, senior instructor, FBS(TW), is conducting the training workshop.—APP
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