TRAINING SEMINAR FOR NON-STATISTICIAN EXECUTIVES OF GABON’S NATIONAL STATISTICAL SYSTEM

Organized by the Ministry of Economy and Recovery, in collaboration with the General Directorate of Statistics (DGS), with the technical support of the Sub-Regional Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics (ISSEA) of Yaoundé in Cameroon, this seminar meets a dual objective: on the one hand, to provide the national statistical system with personnel with knowledge of basic statistics applied to their respective sectors, and on the other hand, to provide essential bases in management statistical services. According to the Deputy Director General of Statistics, Rêve Itsiembou N'dossy-Mangoumba, the training will be specifically structured around 5 modules, namely, data collection and surveys, processing and descriptive analysis of data, use of current statistical software, the statistical database, the organization of a statistical service and sectoral statistics. At the end of this seminar, the Gabonese government intends to improve the national statistical system, through the training of 60 agents of the said system in statistical techniques and by sector, to provide the administrative entities of Gabon with personnel who can work independently in production and to the dissemination of statistics from their respective sectors. Likewise, auditors from sectoral ministries, and public and parapublic companies, thus trained, will be able to organize, integrate and lead the central directorates of studies and statistics or the statistical services of the said entities.