Statistics

Our main areas of expertise include:

Quantitative surveys
  • Undertaking or providing support to all stages of survey design, implementation, analysis and dissemination. Theis includes the overall design of the survey and sampling strategy, as well as designing and piloting questionnaires, and quality assurance of the process;
  • Developing and implementing a range of different surveys, including:
    • Nationally representative surveys of households and individuals o Surveys of service users, such as health facility usersl
    • Community surveys o Service delivery surveys that assess the functioning of service providers in areas such as education and health, both at the facility level and further up the organisational chain;
    • Expenditure tracking surveys measuring the flow of public money and other resources to service delivery units;
  • OPM also has extensive capacity for data analysis and the production of clearly written, relevant survey reports focused on client needs, together with a range of other dissemination strategies and products such as one-to-one briefings with key individuals, stakeholder presentations and workshops, summary briefing notes, websites, press releases and ‘popular reports’.

Statistical and econometric analysis
  • Strengthening key national indicator series, including demographic, health, education and other social sector indicators, consumption poverty and social protection indicators, agricultural statistics and GDP; and strengthening associated metadata;
  • Assessing data sources, data quality and the consistency of different sources, and the application of imputation and other techniques to adjust for non-sampling errors;
  • Evaluating policy and programme impact through a variety of techniques, including intervention-control designs, modelling, and the use of panel surveys and retrospective data;
  • Estimating programme coverage, leakage, and the incidence benefits across different groups;
  • Modelling the determinants of key outcome measures such as school enrolment, achievement test results or immunisation status.

Support to national statistical system
  • Supporting the reform and management of statistical agencies, including strategic statistical development planning, business plan development, organisational development and change management support;
  • Developing national statistical systems and supporting the processes necessary to harmonise official statistical data arising from multiple statistical producers;
  • Supporting technical capacity building in the areas of economic and social statistics, using a wide network of associated specialists with proven competence and experience in supporting quality improvements in economic, social and rural sector statistics in the developing world;
  • Developing capacity within statistical agencies to design, undertake, analyse and disseminate sample surveys. OPM has particular experience in multi-sector household surveys incorporating both social sector and income-expenditure components.