African Data Revolution: Survey
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Key national statistics on demographic and economic indicators.
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| Downloadable | Yes | |
| Publicly available | Yes | |
| Openly licenced | No | No explicit license, but there is “Statistics collected under the Statistics Act while using public funds will be made available and accessible to users as a public good.“ |
| Up-to-date | No | Data is up to date. However, they only have data as from 2011 when NSA was created by the act of parliament |
| In an open and machine-readable format | ||
| location | https://nsa.org.na/page/central-data-catalogue/ - NSA data portal, https://nsa.org.na/page/publications - GDP, https://nsa.org.na/page/publications - CPI, https://cms.my.na/assets/documents/Q4_2017_Trade_Statis - Trade, https://cms.my.na/assets/documents/Labour_Force_Survey_ - Employment, https://cms.my.na/assets/documents/NIDS_2016.pdf - Census | * GPD - PDF, XLS - outdated * CPI - PDF, XLS * Trade - PDF * Employment - PDF, outdated * Vital stats not tracked: https://nsa.org.na/page/demographic-and-vital-statistics-division/ “Currently the division does not compile vital statistics from the civil registration because the system is under creation but estimates on vital statistics are made from censuses and surveys data.” * Census - PDF |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| findable_steps | I have searched online and contacted the NSA executive for data quality | |
| characteristics | Gross Domestic Product, Consumer Price Index, Trade statistics of import and export, National employment rate, National population census | |
| Controlled access | Yes | However, you need to register in order to download the data. |
| Collector name | Namibia Statistics Agency |