On December 10, 2021 at 11:00 a round table was organized by the State Committee on Statistics at the Tashkent Chemical-Technological Institute. It was attended by employees of the State Committee on Statistics, teachers and students of the institute, as well as representatives of the media.
At the event, students were provided with detailed information about the conduct of a pilot census from November 1 to 25 of this year, about the content and essence of the law "On Official Statistics", adopted on August 11 of this year, as well as about the work carried out in our country in the field of industrial statistics.
The data of each citizen is of paramount importance in the conduct of the population census, since, first of all, detailed data are collected on such indicators as the specific population, age, sex, citizenship, ethnic composition, marital status, education, level of housing, employment, sources of income.
The legal basis for the population census is the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan “On the Population Census”, adopted on March 16, 2020. This law is the first law on population census adopted in the years of independence and regulates relations in the field of population census.
In order to effectively organize the implementation of this law, on November 11, 2020, the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 710 “On measures for the preparation and conduct of the population census in the Republic of Uzbekistan in 2023” was adopted.
According to this resolution, the population census in the Republic of Uzbekistan will be conducted from November 1 to 25, 2023. It was also noted that in order to conduct the census process and approbation of all regulatory documents, in accordance with the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated November 11, 2020 No. 710, from November 1 to 25, 2021 in the Khojaabad district of the Andijan region, region, the City of Khiva, Khorezm region and Yashnabad region of the city of Tashkent, a pilot population census was carried out.
The director of the Institute for Advanced Training and Statistical Research under the State Committee on Statistics, Bahodir Karimovich Gaibnazarov, spoke about the essence and content of the law "On Official Statistics", adopted on August 11, 2021. When developing this law, he relied on the model law “On Official Statistics”, developed by the UN Economic Commission for Europe specifically for the countries of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia.
Responsible persons of the government, ministries and departments, as well as foreign experts of the World Bank were involved in the process. The legislation of the CIS countries, Asia and Europe, as well as law enforcement practice in relation to the official statistics of the Russian Federation, Belarus, Kazakhstan and other states were studied.
The new law consists of 7 chapters and 44 articles, radically different from our previous law, and we can see the main points and innovations in the following:
First, a new concept is introduced into practice, that is, the concept of official statistics. The law establishes that official statistics consists of statistical data characterizing economic, demographic, social, financial, environmental phenomena and processes in the Republic of Uzbekistan and other phenomena and processes that are prepared and disseminated in accordance with the provisions of this Law.
From now on, any statistical information not prepared in accordance with the provisions of this law cannot be recognized as official, and with the help of this concept, it will be possible to clearly distinguish between official and non-normative statistical information in the national information space.
During the round table, opinions were also expressed on the indicators of statistics in the field of industry. The head of the industry statistics department Sardor Botirovich Zhuraev presented information on this topic.
As noted, in January-September 2021, enterprises of the republic produced industrial products worth 314.8 trillion soums, the index of the physical volume of industrial production compared to January-September 2020 amounted to 109.0%.
In the structure of industrial production, the largest share falls on the manufacturing industry, whose share in the total volume of industrial production amounted to 83.0%.
Goskomstat specialists answered in detail all the questions posed by the participants of the round table.
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