Strengthening the National Statistical System in Ecuador Project

The development objective of Strengthening the National Statistical System in Ecuador Project is to improve the national statistical capacity of Ecuador in the production and dissemination of timely and high-quality economic and sociodemographic statistics for evidence-based policymaking. This project has four components. 1) The first component, Enhancing demographic information with the new Housing and Population Census, has the following sub-components: (i) Completion of preparatory activities and cartography; (ii) Data collection and data curation; (iii) Innovations in the Housing and Population Census; and (iv) Quality in the Housing and Population Census. 2) The second component, Strengthening the statistical production from surveys, has the following sub-components: (i) Implementing the National Income and Expenditure Survey and updating the poverty lines; (ii) Changing the base year of price indexes and updating basic family baskets; (iii) Implementing the new Labor Force Survey; and (iv) Incorporating the rotating modules of the Agricultural Survey. 3) The third component, Strengthening the Statistical production from Administrative Records and National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC’s) managerial capacity, has the following sub-components: (i) Strengthen the architecture and infrastructure for capturing processing, storage, and visualization; (ii) Create primary and complementary records - Data warehouse; (iii) Construct an inter-thematic viewer - Data Ecuador; (iv) Make a virtual information laboratory for INEC; and (v) Strengthening INEC’s managerial capacity. 4) The fourth component, Project management, monitoring, and evaluation, will be supported by providing technical advisory services, training, operating costs, and the acquisition of goods.