Botswana�s statistical capacity declining

In a Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD) report released recently, the World Bank says one reason for the declining performance may be the transition of Statistics Botswana (SB), which became an independent agency in 2010.

“At the moment, Botswana lacks frequent social, labour, and industrial indicators. The main household survey has been conducted only twice over the last 13 years (2002-2003 and 2009-2010) and a labour force survey has only been conducted once in the last 10 years (2008; the next is planned for 2017). Moreover, the last household survey results were published only three years after their collection and, as of November 2014, the detailed results of the 2011 census have yet to be published,” reads the report.