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The future development of national statistics, the government is currently engaged in reconstituting the necessary institutional structure for the collection and compilation of critical socio-economic statistical data to monitor the economy and social conditions and for policy formulation of decision making. Preparations are currently being made by the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation to re-establish within its structure the national statistical agency. The line Ministries are also setting up departments of planning and statistics. Moreover, as Somalia is moving towards a decentralized system of governance in which regions will have extensive power, they will play an important role in collection and compilation of statistical data in various fields on regional and local level with collaboration of the national statistical agency or their own capacity. |
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