Background

Since the Central Statistical Organization established in 1968 in Aden and the issuance of regulations regulating its work, passing through the establishment of a unified CSO in 1990 and the issuance of Republican Decree No. 28 of 1995 regarding statistics and its executive and organizational regulations, leading to the reactivation of the general office of the Central Statistical Organization in the capital, Aden, which was preceded in 2021 , which create Solid ground for laying the first building blocks at the general office of the Central Organization of Statistics in Aden. CSO has an emergency plan to build capacity and restore some of the production across Aden Governorate, then after reactivating the Organization in Aden in August 2022.
In view of the multiplicity of statistical priorities and the acquisition of urgency in each of them, and in order to attempt to establish the foundations of a scientific and practical statistical system that is characterized by national and international credibility and meets with the minimum demand for data nationally and internationally, the need has emerged to formulate a plan to prepare a work plan with a statistical priority so that this plan responds to the requirements and the conditions for establishing a national system capable of joining the international statistical system without obstacles.
CSO looks forward to prepare a comprehensive strategy for official statistics in the future, which looks forward implementing in partnership with international bodies. Central Statistics Organization exercises its work in accordance with Law No. (28) of 1995 and its executive and organizational regulations, and considers the main driver of the national statistical system, although it is not clearly mentioned in it to the statistical system.
This strategy comes within the framework of the requirements of statistical work to restore the CSO’s role in producing data while ensuring high quality, and building the accompanying capabilities in all human, technical, and material aspects to achieve meeting national needs and regional and international obligations to a minimum, after which it will begin to prepare a national strategy in which taking into account international principles .In this strategy, an urgent vision was developed that helps in setting the building blocks for drawing up a strategy for an integrated, efficient and effective national statistical system (NSDS1), where we formulated objectives in order to strengthen and develop the statistical system through developing and improving the quality of data, in addition to defining statistical priorities and designing tools to measure the development and growth of the statistical system and its ability to achieve its goals. Restoring the publication of a wide range of discontinued data products in social, demographic and economic statistics based on modern and advanced methodologies, as well as improving the tools for publishing them and simplifying their access to users, in order to achieve a significant overall score in the World Bank’s statistical capacity index. It also aims to expand external participation with the National Statistical System (NSS) to enhance the data value chain in Yemen and promote sustainable development for all.