Ulaanbaatar
Science and research-based decision-making system to be established
Politics
Ulaanbaatar/MONTSAME/. On February 2, Speaker of the
Parliament G.Zandanshatar held an online meeting with representatives of Bank
of Mongolia, the State Authority for State Registration, the Communications and
Information Technology Authority, the Mongolian Tax Administration and the
National Statistics Office.
At the beginning of the meeting, the Speaker noted that the meeting aims to establish a governmental decision-making system based on estimations, evidence and science and instructed to pay attention to create a unified database of government organizations by intensifying the work of the National Statistics Office on ‘Statistics and Government Data’.
He stressed that as the government agencies have different
information and separate dababases, some government decisions do not reach the
target groups. For instance, more than
30 percent of people who receive food vouchers were found to have their own
cars and the 4.4 percent have livestock.
Afterwards, Chairman of the National Statistics Office
B.Batdavaa provided a presentation. Current statistical activities focus on
collecting data and building databases according to traditional methods or
approved forms. B.Batdavaa said, “It has several disadvantages of being
time-consuming, reducing the importance of information, limited ability to
process specific results, and being highly dependent on individual factors. Therefore,
as a matter of priority we plan to begin the work to consolidate and link the
data of ministries and agencies by changing the old style of statistics.”
The creation of a unified database will allow government
agencies, researchers, businesses, the media and citizens to obtain accurate
information from a single database. It also has the advantage of improving the
quality of statistical information, eliminating time lags, and making
government decision-making more research-based and streamlined.
Therefore, it was decided to set up a working group
consisting of representatives of relevant government agencies to work on this
issue.
