Senegal Subscribes to the IMF’s Special Data Dissemination Standard
IMF News, November 20, 2017
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- Published: November 20, 2017
Key developments
- Press Release No. 17/451
- Date: November 20, 2017
- Senegal subscribed to the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS).
- Senegal became "the fourth country in Sub-Saharan African to reach this goal."
- Senegal is "the very first country to graduate from the enhanced General Data Dissemination System (e-GDDS)."
Institutional roles and contacts
- Announcement by: IMF Communications Department, MEDIA RELATIONS
- PRESS OFFICER: Pemba Sherpa
- Phone and contact: +1 202 623-7100Email: MEDIA@IMF.org
- IMF Statistics Department Director quoted: Mr. Louis Marc Ducharme (in Dakar for the official announcement).
Support and funding for Senegal’s data transition
- Benefited from support by the Department for International Development (DFID) Enhanced Data Dissemination Initiative, financed by the government of the United Kingdom.
- Received funding from the African Development Bank to build and maintain the open data platform that allows machine-to-machine data transmission.
Significance and expected benefits
- Subscription to the SDDS "represents a major step forward for official statistics in the country and for those who use these data," said Mr. Louis Marc Ducharme.
- The subscription "underscores Senegal’s strong commitment to transparency, as well as the adoption of internationally accepted best practices in statistics."
- SDDS enhances availability of timely statistics according to an advance release calendar, contributing to sound macroeconomic policies and the proper functioning of financial markets.
About the SDDS and dissemination practices
- SDDS established by the IMF in March 1996.
- Subscription is voluntary; a subscribing member commits to observe the standard and to provide information (metadata) to the IMF about its data dissemination practices.
- Metadata are made publicly available on the IMF's Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board (DSBB).
Data access and national arrangements
- The DSBB provides comprehensive documentation in English on the statistical practices of Senegal for SDDS data categories, hyperlinked to country data included in the National Summary Data Page.
- The National Summary Data Page is maintained by Senegal’s Agence Nationale de la Statistique et de la Démographie (ANSD).
- Senegal’s SDDS information is available at http://dsbb.imf.org/Pages/SDDS/CountryList.aspx.
Press Release No. 17/451, November 20, 2017, IMF Communications Department.