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DATA IDENTIFICATION
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Name
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Dollar value of all resources made available to strengthen statistical capacity in developing countries
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Indicator purpose
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The indicator aims to provide a snapshot of the US dollar value of ongoing statistical support in developing countries.
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Abstract
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The indicator Dollar value of all resources made available to strengthen statistical capacity in developing countries is based on the Partner Report on Support to Statistics (PRESS) that is designed and administered by PARIS21 to provide a snapshot of the US dollar value of ongoing statistical support in developing countries.
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Data source
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Statistical Institute of Belize and Ministry of Finance
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DATA CHARACTERISTICS
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Contact organization person
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Statistical Institute of Belize and Ministry of Finance
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Date last updated
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28-OCT-2019
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Periodicity
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Annual
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Unit of measure
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US dollars
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Other characteristics
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N/A
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DATA CONCEPTS and CLASSIFICATIONS
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Classification used
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N/A
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Disaggregation
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The commitment amount can be disaggregated by geographical area, ODA sectors, area of statistics and method of financing (grant vs loan).
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Key statistical concepts
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The financial amounts were converted to US dollars by using the period average exchange rate of the commitment year of the project/program. In cases where the disbursement amounts were reported, the exchange rate used was the period average of the disbursement year.
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Formula
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OTHER ASPECTS
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Recommended uses
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This indicator can be used by Statistical Institute of Belize to help to strengthen statistical capacity in the country.
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Limitations
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Measuring support to statistics comes with many methodological challenges. The financial figures presented in the PRESS therefore need to be interpreted with these challenges in mind. For instance, PRESS numbers rely on the Creditor Reporting System (CRS) for ODA commitments supplemented by voluntary reporting from additional donors. Yet, full coverage of all programs cannot be guaranteed. Furthermore, the reported commitments can be seen as an upper bound to the actual support to statistics for mainly three reasons. First, double counting of projects may occur when the donor and project implementer report on the same project or when all project co-financers report project totals. Second, the reported numbers may be inflated by working with project totals for multi-sector projects, which comprise only a small statistics component. Finally, the PRESS reports on donor-side commitments which do not always translate to actual disbursements to the recipient countries. The indicator only captures international support to statistics and does not account for domestic resources.
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Other comments
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All the metadata shown in this document was gathered from United Nation Statistics Division. The metadata was extracted from https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/.