On Tuesday, 17 May 2022, the Planning and Statistics Authority will organize a Webinar on building a central statistical data warehouse that contributes to access the economic, social and environmental data for all type users and categories, such as decision, policy and strategy makers, foremost of which is the Third National Development Strategy of the State of Qatar.
The Webinar will study the statistical and technical aspects of the data warehouse, and reviews international, regional and national experiences in order to build a modern data platform that keeps pace with the latest technologies, and to benefit from national experiences in many ministries, government agencies, private sector, universities and research centers. This webinar comes within the framework of the efforts of the Planning and Statistics Authority to upgrade the national statistical system, and aims to shed light on the importance of this work for all data users in the country and to identify its added value in the field of national development planning, tracking its course and achieving its goals, and the necessary national partnerships to build an integrated data warehouse characterized by flexibility, comprehensiveness and high quality of its data.
The objectives of the webinar also include the identification of the statistical, technical and structural processes necessary to operate the central statistical data warehouse, and the role of partners in building and sustaining this national work, as well as benefiting from advanced experiences in the field of data warehouse statistically and technically.
In this context, HE Dr. Saleh M. Al-Nabit, President of the Planning and Statistics Authority, stressed the need for ministries, government agencies, private sector and other groups of society to cooperate in building this work, by providing the PSA with the required data with high quality and in a timely manner.
Moreover, his excellency explained that the data is for the public good and for everyone to use, while maintaining the confidentiality of data related to individuals and institutions. While he added that this activity is organized in cooperation with the Malaysian and Italian Statistics Authorities, Microsoft and a number of relevant ministries.
Noteworthy, a large number of workers in the field of statistics, data and computing, developers of programs and policies, especially data users working in the government and private sectors, universities, research centers and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) will participate in this webinar.
