On November 11-14 of this year, at the invitation of the National Statistical Office of Great Britain, a delegation headed by the Director of the Statistics Agency under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Begalov Bahodir Abdusalomovich made an official visit to London.
The meetings were held at the head office of the National Statistical Office of the United Kingdom, located in London.
During the meeting, the best practices of the National Statistical Office of the United Kingdom were studied on the following topical topics:
- the legislative framework for obtaining, processing, storing and distributing data in statistical activities, national practice, existing problems and shortcomings, as well as the UK's experience in solving them;
- features of ensuring the effective use of administrative data in activities, issues of integration with other departments, obstacles, problems and solutions;
- the UK's experience in the formation and maintenance of statistical registers (enterprises and organizations, sectors of the economy, population, etc.);
- features of conducting trade statistics;
- practical use of modern digital technologies, the results achieved in the digitalization of the activities of the national statistical system of the United Kingdom;
- unique UK experience in organizing and conducting accounting events (population, agriculture, business);
- extensive use of outsourcing opportunities in the UK National Statistical Office.
During the visit, the information exchange processes between the National Statistical Office of the United Kingdom and other agencies were studied directly on the spot.
In addition, at meetings with the head and staff of the National Statistical Office of the United Kingdom, a presentation was presented on "Large-scale reforms being implemented in Uzbekistan to reform the national statistical system: results achieved and plans for the future." Information was also provided on the ongoing work on digitalization of the system's activities, the widespread introduction of digital technologies into statistical processes, careful preparation for accounting events and other relevant issues on the agenda.
Information was provided on the work carried out in recent years as part of the administrative reforms of the New Uzbekistan, including ensuring openness and transparency, establishing activities based on advanced quality management systems, the results achieved in the implementation of statistical processes in accordance with the latest international statistical methodologies, as well as on the achievements noted in the assessments of the "Inventory Open Data" (ODIN) in the field of achieving Sustainable Development Goals and maintaining gender statistics, and also about obtaining the national and international ISO-9001 certificate for the activities of the Agency's statistics system and the compliance of statistical data with quality criteria.
During the meetings, issues of signing a Memorandum of Understanding and cooperation in the field of statistics between the National Statistical Office of the United Kingdom (ONS) and the Statistics Agency under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan were discussed.
Based on the experience learned during this business trip, it is planned to introduce modern digital technologies into registration processes, the introduction of artificial intelligence (ChatbotAI) and big data processing technologies (BigData) into the e-Stat-4.0 information system, which will allow respondents to receive answers to questions arising in the process of filling out reports through artificial intelligence, and also to develop the methodology of statistics of other industries.