Malawi: NSO promoting survey documentation and dissemination (May 2013)

The National Statistical Office (NSO) of Malawi has been an ADP member since 2009. It has been providing online data to users with eight surveys since it joined the ADP. Recently it has completed the first phase of the NSS Strategic Plan developed with the help of PARIS21. As per the NSS plan it wants to expand its cooperation with the other six line ministries in the field of data collection and documentation. To maintain a regular flow of online quality data and make it easily accessible to users, it is finalizing a data dessimination policy with ADP support. Futhermore, a survey documentation workshop is being organized with line ministries and other data producers. Elven surveys from the NSO and twelve additional surveys from six line ministries are expected to be documented and made available to users.