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SDMX for Sustainable Development Goals Indicators: The Way Forward. Abdulla Gozalov United Nations Statistics Division. Sustainable Development Goals. From the United Nations General Assembly resolution 70/1 “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development“
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SDMX for Sustainable Development Goals Indicators: The Way Forward Abdulla Gozalov United Nations Statistics Division
Sustainable Development Goals • From the United Nations General Assembly resolution 70/1 “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development“ 74. Follow-up and review processes at all levels will be guided by the following principles: … (g) They will be rigorous and based on evidence, informed by country-led evaluations and data which is high-quality, accessible, timely, reliable and disaggregated by income, sex, age, race, ethnicity, migration status, disability and geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts.
SDMX-SDGs Working Group • Working Group on SDMX for SDG Indicators established by IAEG-SDGs in April 2016 • Composed of 12 countries, 10 international agencies • Chaired by France • UNSD acts as the Secretariat • First meeting in October 2016 • Monthly virtual, annual physical meetings
SDMX-SDGs: Objectives • Develop global Data Structure Definition(s) and Metadata Structure Definition(s) for SDG Indicators • Standards for the packaging of SDGs data and metadata including concepts, codes, structures • Develop, pilot, and establish data exchange mechanisms for SDG indicators • Reporting and dissemination at national, regional, global level
Challenges • Highly disaggregated dataset mandated by the General Assembly • Methodology under development for many of the indicators and breakdowns • SDMX solution must be customizable for dissemination by countries
Opportunities • Uniform data model • Read and correctly interpret SDGs data from any source: national, regional, global • Uniform data access and dissemination • SDMX-based Application Programming Interface (API): JSON, XML, CSV • Greatly reduced reporting burden • Common tools, visualizations, platforms…
SDMX-SDGs: Timeline • Draft DSD(s): first draft Feb 2018 • Pilot data exchange: completed in Sep 2018 • With participation of about 5 countries and 5 custodian agencies • Official DSD: released Jun 2019 • Metadata exchange to be piloted from late 2019
SDG datasets • Global dataset compiled and published by UNSD • Annual reporting • Internationally comparable country-level data • Regional and global aggregates • Regional datasets compiled by regional agencies • Customized regional indicator sets • Indicators may be comparable at regional or global level • National datasets compiled by the countries • Voluntary reporting of indicator set customized based on the country’s priorities • Indicators do not necessarily follow global methodology • Emphasis on subnational data
National and International Data • National and international data and metadata will be compared and analyzed at the global SDG Platform • Greatly simplified by SDMX • Reasons for differences: see metadata! • Data exchange with 20 countries funded through the UNSD-DFID Project on SDG Monitoring • Additional capacity building for SDMX exchange through the DA-10 and other projects
What does it take to implement SDMX exchange? • Available no-cost tools greatly simplify the implementation • Adaptable to various scenarios • Existing database • Migration to a new database • No database
What then? • Establish data exchange with the global SDG platform • Comparison between national and global indicators • Dissemination platforms and other tools with support for SDMX • Greatly reduced cost of implementation
THANK YOU Abdulla Gozalov Email: gozalov un.org http://unstats.un.org/sdgs/