Cooperation in the field of social statistics discussed with representatives
of the World Bank delegation during a working visit to Chisinau

During the meeting, the top management of the NBS expressed its gratitude for the support provided by the WB in reforming national statistics, especially in the field of living standards and poverty measurement, in accordance with international standards and best practices in statistics, thanking the projects carried out so far with the support of the WB, within which the NBS benefited from technical assistance in various areas of statistical activity. One of the recent projects was for the improvement of the Household Budget Survey (Survey) tools in order to improve the response rate and, consequently, the quality of the data.

Also, during the meeting, additional topics of possible cooperation between the NBS and the WB were addressed that require technical assistance and international expertise regarding the full transition to the CAPI collection method for continuous statistical survey in households, the reorganization and modernization of the single network of interviewers and observers of NBS, implementing the new master sample, strengthening the capabilities of NBS specialists in the R language.

A separate topic of the discussions referred to the implementation in the Republic of Moldova of the Population and Housing Census planned for the year 2024 and the perspectives of cooperation in order to support this exercise of great statistical complexity.

Additionally, it is worth mentioning that, since the application of the Regulation on access to individual data for scientific purposes (approved by NBS Order No. 51 of 31.12.2021), researchers from the World Bank office have been rather active in requesting access to NBS microdata, in particularly those from the HBS, the Labor Force Survey (LFS) and the Structural Survey in Enterprises - the next scientific survey project for which the data will be used is the assessment of poverty in the Republic of Moldova planned for the current year, being disseminated in June 2023.