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    "content": "Development Education (ECDE) in the counties, how many and what sort of classrooms do you want to have. We now know that most of the counties that have the ECDE Bill that would have been an Act in the Eleventh Parliament but it did not, will look at the best classroom model that is talked about in that particular Bill and how that can be attained. Some correlations have already been made in certain schools where we know because of school feeding programmes, more children have been able to go to school. So, all these deliverables, which are clear from statistical analysis, will help us to move on to a point where we will put everything together as the Bill says. It will be in charge of collection, compilation, analysis and dissemination of statistical information. That office will use that information usefully and share it. In the Bill where we have many players from the various counties coming into the committee, that experience will be important. For example, one county will say this is how we solved problem “X”, “Y” and “Z”. Another county will also give its experiences and this will bring it all together. Those two persons in that consultative committee from the research institutions and public universities will add value to that particular committee. Of importance is what is in Clause 9(d) where the committee will co-ordinate the harmonisation of national and county policy and methodologies relating to statistics. That is key. What that means is that, if they proceed with a particular matter and use a particular methodology that works in a particular county, they can proceed to use that specific methodology again and apply it to another county successfully. So, in harmonisation, it is making sure the way data is collected and handled does not give any spurious outputs that might not reflect the actuality of what that data is meant to put into place. Part IV is broad; it gives statistical information and everything that needs to be done. Clause 13 says- “The county statistician shall issue a code of practice that sets out professional standards to be followed by all departments and agencies of the county government.” This is very key. Data can be used to present accuracy, but a lot of times data can also be misconstrued. One of the chapters when we are teaching statistics is “How you should know data to lie.” Somebody can use data in such a way that they over inflate a situation. For example, if it is on a correlation using an outlier, just one or two figures that are completely out of the range of the other data points might represent an over representation of a particular output that is not really the case. Therefore, somebody has to pinpoint and say that: “As a result of this particular outlier, the grades of this particular school indicate that they have done very well.” However, we had one student who had an A Plus of 100 per cent, while everybody else was within the mean of about 60 per cent. Therefore, that one person drives that one point very high. Once again, Madam Temporary Speaker, that whole bit about professional ethics, standards and qualifications all come together to ensure that there has to be proper use. I congratulate Sen. Farhiya for bringing this Bill, which I think is very timely. However, I have looked through it and I have not seen any penalty Clause, for example, for the misuse of statistics. That is critical because without this clause, we may find that this good office could be abused. Madam Temporary Speaker, we also need some more information about how this data can be cascaded. Apart from this county office, when researchers or development 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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