The Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC)—Data Module provides an assessment of The Gambia’s macroeconomic and social statistics against the recommendations of the General Data Dissemination System (GDDS) and Special Data Dissemination System (SDDS), complemented by an assessment of data quality based on the IMF’s Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF). The DQAF lays out internationally accepted practices in statistics, ranging from good governance in data-producing agencies to practices specific to datasets. The datasets covered in this report are national accounts, Consumer Pr4ice Index, external debt, education statistics and sample survey data. The agencies that compile the datasets assessed in this report are the Gambia Bureau of Statistics (GBoS), Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs (MoFEA), and the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education (MoBSE).
The Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC)—Data Module provides an assessment of The Gambia’s Consumer Price Index Statistics against the recommendations of the General Data Dissemination System (GDDS) and Special Data Dissemination System (SDDS), complemented by an assessment of data quality based on the IMF’s Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF), May 2012. The DQAF lays out internationally accepted practices in statistics, ranging from good governance in data-producing agencies to practices specific to datasets. The report is based on self-assessment information provided by staff of the Consumer Price Index and Government Finance Statistics unit of the Gambia Bureau of Statistics (GBoS) after a training workshop conducted on 16-20 December 2019, and three weeks period allowed for the filling of the DQAF assessment toolkit.