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    "content": "Clause 8(1)(d) says: “There is established a National Consultative Committee on Statistics comprising of— (d) two county statisticians who are not from the same county as the county executive committee members under paragraph (c).” This is interesting because according to Sub clause (2), the members appointed will serve on a part-time basis for a renewable term of four years. His is rich because it will enable an exchange of ideas from the various counties. We do not want this to remain a county oriented process because people can keep changing from the various counties giving specifics about what can be done. As Sen. Omogeni said, the qualifications of the chairperson of this body will be better if it was a Master's degree. I happen to have taught statistics at the University of Nairobi both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. There is a lot more richness. As you would know, at the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) level, statistics gets more interesting, complicated and relevant. Therefore, a person with a university degree, especially for such a body, might end up having challenges. Also, I noted that this person should have at least five years experience in public administration. That may help to some extent. However, if we have somebody who is qualified and, probably, has worked in the field of statistics, it will be better. Figures can be complicated and confusing. You can use data in all honesty to make a particular point. However, if you do not know how to use it, you can give contrived results that are not accurate in terms of what you want to say. For example, if you are working on a mean without giving the standard deviation, then that will not be accurate. This is because the standard deviation will give you the measure of dispersion from the mean which is critical in you understanding the all proportion of the people who have views. If you give only the mean, it might be complicated. So, it is important to do so. Madam Temporary Speaker, having said that, apart from just collecting data, the beauty is that you can use the richness of that data to do much more. For example, in the field of agriculture, apart from looking at what the yields might be, you may also want to make standard correlations like the proportions of productivity between male and female farmers. That might inform policy formulation. You will tell if farm yields are higher for the women farmers. If that is the case, then you will know the direction to take and who to target when you are given farm implements or fertilizers. This office should go beyond just looking at the primary data. As much as possible, it should also try to correlate that data, do regression analysis, multivariate analysis and all sorts of other data techniques which can help to give more information that may be hidden and not clear by looking at the primary data. That will give more yields in terms of what is expected out of this particular Bill. The responsibilities are very clear for the county statistics office. The day to day management of the office and staff, overseeing the implementation of policies, preparation of following documents like the strategic and annual plan which have been mentioned by other Senators. You cannot do this without the proper data. What is the output that is expected? What is the process to get to that specific output? What needs to go in? If it is an education matter, you will want to know, if it Early Childhood The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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