Statistics  

The Establishment of the Statistics Advisory Committee » Tasks of the Committee

The committee assumes the responsibility of revising the regulations prepared by the Ministry in accordance with the provisions of this law before their approval by the Minister, in addition to coordinating all efforts directed toward data collection and analysis. The Committee assumes, in particular, the following responsibilities:

1. Approval of long term socioeconomic statistics plans and the annual statistical plans prepared by the Ministry of National Economy and other government units.

2. Coordination of statistical work and activities in the Sultanate.

3. Determining Priority of studies, surveys and censuses according to the requirements of the different government units and in the way that meets their planning needs .

4. Unification of statistical concepts, terminologies in the Sultanate and the follow up of the international recommendations in this regard.

5. Determining the manner of conducting statistical processes, the technical method followed in their preparation and the publication of their results to ensure level improvement and the speedy implementation of official statistics.

6. Revising the cost of specialized statistical operations of the different government units and sending comments to concerned authorities.

7. Encouraging statistical studies and research in the different fields and levels and work towards spreading statistical awareness which would enable the graduation of enough number of qualified citizens to work in the field of statistics.

8. Approving the publication of the results of official statistics which have been decided to be undertaken or collected in special or periodic bulletins except the results which the committee decides to treat them as confidential. The committee can use a number of experts and specialists according to the subjects under study.