The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on Tuesday launched two dashboards under its Digital Transformation initiative to provide latest information along with time series and info-graphic of data. These newly introduced dashboards are PSLM_SDGs and Price. The dashboards have been launched for achieving the bureaus objective of collecting, compiling and disseminating of data in reliable and user friendly way, official sources said.
The initiative would help shift from uni-dimensional approach of the data dissemination of providing data in fixed or aggregate format to an interactive and the customized approach.
According to PBS Officials
“The dashboards would provide latest information along with time series data and info-graphic of data dissemination through dash board,”
These dashboards may be helpful in providing open access of data with gender and urban/rural break down along with comparison with previous years of various indicators as per requirement of data users.
This would facilitate the users to access the valuable information under one umbrella in a vary short span of the time.
The sources added further
“The initiative of PBS will lead to increased used of PBS data for evidence based policy and Planning”
The dashboard on the Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement (PSLM) would provide data about education, ICT, health, population welfare, water, sanitation and Hygiene, Household Integrated Economic Survey (HIES) and Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES).
It is pertinent to mention here that the PSLM, a Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) funded project, commenced in 2004 and continued up to June, 2015.
The PSLM Project was designed to provide Social & Economic indicators in the alternate years at provincial and district level and afterwards PSLM has become regular activity of PBS.
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