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Monday 10th of February 2025
General Overview
The Government of the United Republic of Tanzania (URT) is implementing the Second National Statistical Development Strategy known as the Tanzania Statistical Master Plan (TSMP II) which provides a comprehensive framework for the development of official statistics in Tanzania and is fully aligned with SHaSA2, PaRIS21 and EAC RSDS. It is going to be implemented by National Statistical System (NSS) stakeholders for the period of five years from 2022/23 to 2026/27 whereby the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and Office of the Chief Government Statistician (OCGS) take the coordination role.
TSMP II is harmonized with Eastern Africa Regional Statistics Program-for-Results (EARSPforR) to support the implementation of the aggregated national statistics programs of Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania to strengthen the harmonization, availability and use of core economic and social statistics under the EAC coordination through the World Bank support.
Objective
The overall objective is to further strengthen the NSS to sustain the achievements of the first Tanzania Statistical Master Plan (TSMP I) which was implemented between 2011/2012 -2017/2018 and take onboard emerging statistical needs to aid in planning, monitoring, evaluating and decision-making on various programs implemented in the country.
Results Areas of TSMP II
TSMP II has set up three Results Areas as the key fundamental aspirations for statistical development in the country that together enhance the effective statistical solutions to the third Tanzania Mainland Five Years Development Plan (FYDP III) 2020/21-2025/26 as well as the Zanzibar Development Plans (ZADEP) 2021-2026. The three Results Areas are:
Management and Governance of TSMP II
TSMP II involved all NSS stakeholders whereby four level of management was designed to smooth implementation.
Financing of the TSMP II
About 384 USD million expected to finance the implementation of TSMP II for the period of 2022/23-2026/27 of which 21.4 percent as a loan from World Bank, 21.8 percent from Other Development Partners and the rest from Government (URT&RGoZ).
DLRs Achieved
| DLRs | Status | Link | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1.1 | Data quality assurance framework (guidelines) developed and adopted for statistical production for all data to be produced under TSMP II | Tanzania Data Quality Assurance framework is developed and poblished | Link: View Document |
| 1.1.2 | IMF Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF) compiled and published for all four data set | National Accounts and Consumer Price Index assessment reports that aligned with IMF DQAF have already published online | Link: View Report |
| 1.1.3 | Harmonized five dimensions of statistics according to applicable regional guidelines | Tanzania HCPI is published through EAC website | Link: View Report |
| 1.2.1 | User satisfaction survey for URT is completed and disseminated | User satisfaction survey for URT is completed and available online | click here |
| 1.2.2 | An ARC for TSMP II statistics is published online, and communication and advocacy strategy and action plan for statistics to be produced under TSMP II which is based on the findings from the user satisfaction survey, is developed | An Advance Release Calendar (ARC) is completed and is online | Link: View Report |
| The communication and advocacy strategy and action plan is in place | Link: View Report | ||
| 1.2.4 | A functional interactive online and integrated data visualization and mapping platform providing access to a comprehensive statistical database, is put in place and adopts the EAC data sharing standards | A functional interactive online and integrated data visualization and mapping platform is in place | Link: View Report |
| 2.2.1 | Statistical Business Register (SBR) updated to 2022 through an establishment census with report and anonymized micro data online | Statistical Business Register (SBR) report and microdata are published online | Link: View Report Link for microdata |
| 2.4.1 | Digital cartography and pilot for 2022 Population and Housing Census completed | Digital cartography and pilot for 2022 Population and Housing Census completed | Link: View Report |
| 2.4.2 | Manual and tools for integrating administrative data in the Tanzania National Statistical System for filling data gaps in the monitoring of SDGs and official statistical indicators | Manual for strengthening and integrating administrative data into National Official Statistics of Tanzania is published online | Link: View Report |
| 2.4.3 | Publication of preliminary results of 2022 Population and Housing Census and 10% random sample is available on line for users | Publication of preliminary results of 2022 Population and Housing Census and 10% random sample is available on line for users | Link: View Report |
| 2.4.5 | Integrated database/data centre of administrative data that is relevant for producing official statistics for three sectors for URT (Mainland and Zanzibar) | Data set for Education, Health and Finance were Integrated in TISP database | Link: View Report |
| 2.5.3 | Harmonized and improved price data collection and rebasing of CPI completed | URT CPI is completed and Monthly Rural CPI for the period of June-November, 2024 is finalized | Link: View Report |