Statistical performance indicators (SPI): Pillar 4 data sources score (scale 0-100) by country

What this measures

The data sources overall score is a composite measure of whether countries have data available from the following sources: Censuses and surveys, administrative data, geospatial data, and private sector/citizen generated data. The data sources (input) pillar is segmented by four types of sources generated by (i) the statistical office (censuses and surveys), and sources accessed from elsewhere such as (ii) administrative data, (iii) geospatial data, and (iv) private sector data and citizen generated data. The appropriate balance between these source types will vary depending on a country's institutional setting and the maturity of its statistical system. High scores should reflect the extent to which the sources being utilized enable the necessary statistical indicators to be generated. For example, a low score on environment statistics (in the data production pillar) may reflect a lack of use of (and low score for) geospatial data (in the data sources pillar). This type of linkage is inherent in the data cycle approach and can help highlight areas for investment required if country needs are to be met.

Limitations: In the data sources pillar, more information is needed in the areas of administrative data, geospatial data, and private and citizen generated data. On administrative data, the picture is incomplete with no measures of whether countries have administrative data systems in place to measure health, education, labor, and social protection program statistics. For the geospatial indicator, there is a proxy measure of whether the country is able to produce indicators at the sub-national level, but as yet, no understanding of how countries are using geospatial information in other ways, for instance using satellite data.

Each country's latest available year is shown; countries report on different schedules, so compare years before comparing values.

Ranking

More public sector indicators

• Net acquisition of financial assets (current LCU)
• Net acquisition of financial assets (% of GDP)
• Central government debt, total (current LCU)
• Central government debt, total (% of GDP)
• Net incurrence of liabilities, total (current LCU)
• Net incurrence of liabilities, total (% of GDP)
• Net investment in nonfinancial assets (current LCU)
• Net investment in nonfinancial assets (% of GDP)
• Net lending (+) / net borrowing (-) (current LCU)
• Net lending (+) / net borrowing (-) (% of GDP)
• Grants and other revenue (current LCU)
• Grants and other revenue (% of revenue)

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Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, IQ.SPI.PIL4, CC BY 4.0. Original source: Statistical Performance Indicators, World Bank (WB), uri: https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/dataset/statistical-performance-indicators View on data.worldbank.org; the full definition is in the World Bank's metadata glossary.