Organizational Structure
The Board of Trustees:
The Institute policy and its annual programs are
approved by the Board of Trustees who governs the
Institute as the top authority .
The Board of trustees consists of presidents and
Heads of Statistical Organizations or Burues in
the member Arab Countries and the director General
and the chief experts of the Institute, they meet
at least once a year (usually in December) to
approve the plan at budget of the coming fiscal
you.
The financing of the Institute is done through the
subscription rates paid by the member countries
and any other donations or income due to charged
tasks.
The Technical Committee:
It is follow
the Board of Trustees , consists of :
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Head of Central organization of statistics in
the host country (Iraq).
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Two heads of Arab Statistics
organizations.
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Director General of the
Institute.
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Chief Experts of the Institute.
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Consultants: Head of Statistics Departments at
the host country universities.
The role of the committee is to introduce
suggestions and recommendations for the Board of
Trustees concerning programs, scientific and
technical details, and presenting opinion in
scientific and research issues and any other
related technical issues given by the Board of
Trustees or the General Director.
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AITRS Objectives
The Arab Institute for
Training & Research in Statistics (AITRS) aims to :
Raise competencies and
skills of the Arab Statistical Organization and
support them through executing the following
activities :-
1. Conducting
short courses to train and to update Arab
Statisticians on up to date knowledge and practices
of statistics.
2. Train the
trainers on statistical schemes to upgrade them and
qualify them in different areas of statistical
training.
3. Holding
seminars, conferences and workshops concerning
various statistical fields and issues.
4. Offering
Statistical consultation to the Arab countries,
especially in the fields of surveys and censuses.
5. Arranging
visits among experts of different statistical
organizations in the Arab world and from
International and Regional Organizations.
6. Exchanging up
to date recent statistical techniques, methods and
guidelines to be followed in the Statistical
Organizations in the Arab Region.
7. Preparing and
implementing appropriate Statistical High Diploma
programs to develop the skills (Theoretical &
Practical) of statistician holding Bachelors in
statistics.
Training Fields:
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Official Statistics- General Issues (GEN) |
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Official Statistics- Economic Statistics (ECO) |
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Official Statistics-Social Statistics (SOC) |
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Data collection and Survey Methodology (DAT) |
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Applied Statistical Analysis (ASA) |
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Publication and Dissemination of Statistics
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Management in Statistical Institute (MSI) |
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Statistical Information System (SIS) |
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Activities of the Institute
1-Training
-High Diploma (Advanced Course)
The AITRS organizes
high diploma program every year. This program
covers nine months and aiming at deepening and
expanding university knowledge through intensive
teaching process. The curriculum covers main
theoretical subjects and practical-oriented ones;
statistical methods and sampling, methods of data
collection, editing, processing, publication and
dissemination, statistical methodology,
statistical management…besides more specialized
and sophisticated subjects in applied statistics,
population statistics, and national accounts. The
AITRS has conducted 27 H.D courses so far. 512
students successfully completed this programme
with average 20 graduates per year.
-Short courses
The training plans
in AITRS aims at developing the knowledge and
skills of the workers in the Arab statistical
organizations. It aims also at expanding the usage
of modern techniques and producing the training
curriculum that improve the training processes for
good achievements. The AITRS hold since its
founding up to date (109) short training courses
in different statistical fields, in which nearly
(2633) trainee participated from various Arab
countries.
-Individual Training
To create the
communication between the employees of the Arab
statistical organizations and give them the chance
to practice the others experience in his field and
to exchange experience, the AITRS arrange the
individual training programs which take the
responsibility to send statistical employees from
one Arab country to another to exchange
experience. About (85) statisticians of most Arab
countries benefited from this training (Jordan,
UAE, Bahrain, Djibouti, Saudi Arabia, Sudan,
Syria, Somalia, Iraq, Oman, Palestine, Qatar,
Libya, Mauritania, and Yemen.
-Scholarships
AITRS has
cooperation agreements with Baghdad University
(Statistics) and the High Institute for the
Information Technology, Iraqi Ministry of High
Education. According to these agreements, these
institutions grant scholarships for graduate
studies in statistics and information. The AITRS
had a cooperation agreement with the Applied
Statistical College in the Jordanian Department of
Statistics through which many Arabs graduated
carrying college diploma, but this cooperation
ceased due to ending of this college. These
scholarships served about (80) Arabic statistician
who got their graduate certificates in statistics
and computer (intermediate diploma, high diploma,
master and Ph.D.)
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Seminars and Symposiums
Seminars and
symposiums typically provide mutual, personal
communication and meeting for interested people.
This activity ensures better understanding,
exchanging opinions and views, sharing experience
among different Arab Statisticians. The institute
has organized (23) seminars or symposiums in which
(470) statisticians of various levels and fields
have participated.
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2-Researches
During (27) working
years, the institute issued many publishes which
was distributed to the Arab statisticians,
including;
Books:
23 books. Some of them were used as curriculum in
the Iraqi universities.
Translations: Eleven issues of the UN
publishing were translated by the AITRS.
Researches: The AITRS issued, prepared
and published about (53) researches and studies in
various statistical topics, in addition to (512)
researches prepared by high diploma students in
population and applied statistics.
Manuals:
The AITRS started since 2003, as part of
developing and modernizing the AITRS curriculum,
to issue many manuals. These manuals are
considered the guide for the Arabic statistician
to recognize many specialized statistical
software. The AITRS issued “The Guide to Use the
Statistical Package for Social Studies (SPSS)” and
“Census and Survey Processing Guide (CSPRO2.4)”.
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Documentation and Data Sources
Capacity Building of Arab Statisticians System :
The AITRS realized
the increasing demand for training of the Arabic
statistical organizations, to meet the
developments in statistics and information
technology through providing the varied
experiences in the scientific foundations that
will help the enhancement of the statistical
abilities on the Arabic level.
Consequently, the
needs were arranged and connected to the
qualifications and experiences available in the
scientific foundations and the Arabic statistical
organizations. These needs were introduced in vast
and simple ways, i.e. the found of internet
computerized system to enhance the Arabic
statistical capabilities including the information
requested for the design of training programs and
run these programs on time. This computerized
system will on line by the ending of this year.
This program provides information about needs,
experiences classification, complete guide for the
use of trainee and trainer concerning the course
and activities offered. The address of this
website is (www.arabstat.net).
Website:
The AITRS released
its website early 2002. The institute insists on
the update of its website since its release to
make possible for its visitors to follow up the
activities and the programs. The website contains
all activities, achievements and the electronic
sites for training and research on the Arabic and
the International level. The website became
important tool to promote the institute tasks,
capabilities and training and the research courses
hold that introduces the Arab statisticians
background about the mechanisms to benefit these
activities.
Library:
The library of the
AITRS is enriched with publishes in statistics,
economy, social science. These publishes covers
textbooks, periodic, formal censuses,
dictionaries, articles and researches. The
publishes include: (990) publications issued by
Arab & International Organizations, (753)
publications issued by Arab statistical
organizations, (772) Arabic & foreign books and
(15) dictionaries. These issues benefited by the
college and graduate studies students in the Iraqi
universities and researchers from the different
Arab countries.
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Cooperation with Arab and International
Organizations:
The AITRS seeks to
solidify its professional relations with the other
statistical organizations and the Arab, Regional
and International Organizations; specially those
relations that increase the activity of the
institute. Of these relations:
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The insist of attendance for the
periodic meetings of the Statistical Technical
Committee that follow the League of Arab States,
organizations, institutions and the other Arabic
specialized centers.
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Closing up cooperation with Arab
statistical organization to benefit from their
human and physical resources for better
performance of theinstitute.
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Deepening and expanding work
relations and concluding cooperation agreements
with Iraqi universities and academic
foundations.
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Follow up and the attendance of
the regional and international statistical
activities related for the formal statistical
work such as ESCWA, UNSD and Paris 21.
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Benefiting from other regional
and international training centers activities
and publications (like TES, UNITAR, IUSSP and
Cairo Demographic Center CDC).