Administrative Data Sources for Compiling Millennium Development Goals and Related Indicators

Download or read book Administrative Data Sources for Compiling Millennium Development Goals and Related Indicators written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The handbook is one of the outputs of the Asian Development Bank regional technical assistance on Improving Administrative Data Sources for the Monitoring of the Millennium Development Goals Indicators. It serves as a reference tool for data producers on improving administrative data sources for compiling the Millennium Development Goals and other indicators. Drawing from the experiences of the five case study countries included in the technical assistance, namely, Mongolia, Nepal, Palau, Sri Lanka, and Viet Nam, the handbook combines theoretical issues in using administrative data with the practical problems faced in their use and provides recommendations to help improve administrative data systems. It also provides information on alternative data sources for compiling the Millennium Development Goals and other indicators.