May 13, 2021

COVID-19 ASSESSMENT

DASHBOARD

Presentation By: Leonard Katova : Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency

Chriswell Vava : World Bank

Presentation Outline

•Overview of the Dashboard

•Objectives of the Dashboard

•Data Dissemination

• Accessing the Dashboard

• Showing the dashboard

Overview of the Dashboard

• The COVID-19 pandemic created an urgent need for timelyinformation to help monitor and mitigate the social and economicimpacts of the crisis. Responding to this need, the Zimbabwe NationalStatistics Agency (ZIMSTAT), together with the World Bank andUNICEF, designed a high-frequency telephone survey of householdsto measure the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 in Zimbabwe.

• A team is working with ZIMSTAT to develop a data visualization toolwhich will display the trend in key socioeconomic indicators from thehigh-frequency telephone surveys.

Objectives of the Dashboard

• The objective of the dashboard is to make the data widely accessibleand user-friendly to any interested user.

• It also aims to display and disseminate the findings from multiplerounds of high frequency household surveys conducted by ZIMSTAT.

• The dashboard has been developed in close collaboration with ZIMSTAT while enhancing the organizational capacity on programming, data formatting, and updating and maintaining the tool.

Data dissemination

• ZIMSTAT previously relied heavily on traditional disseminationmethods such as workshops, print and electronic media

• The PR Unit which was set up in March 2020 to spearhead datadissemination and communication at ZIMSTAT is responsible for thisCommunication Strategy

• ZIMSTAT therefore collaborates with several institutions in dataproduction either as a technical or implementing partner

• To improve data dissemination, developed an Open Data Portal(ODP) through technical assistance from AfDB as part of the AfricaInformation Highway

• The platform is not only dedicated to SDGs but allows the Agency toimplement a one-stop platform where users can explore all statisticaldata being disseminated including Economic, Demographic and Socialstatistics.

• ODP allow users to access a wide range of development data and thetool allows ZIMSTAT among other things to:

a) Upload SDGs or National datasets and maintain them updated regularly.

b) Create Dashboard for each indicator once the data are uploaded

c) Publish through the SDGs page on which users can browse to visualize SDGsindicators.

d) Disseminate SDGs/ local metadata through a metadata page setup

Accessing the dashboard

• The portal offers options to ZIMSTAT to sharedatasets and Dashboard to main social networkto promote the use of Zimbabwe data

• Users can as well easily download Covid-19Assessment data or Covid-19 dashboard using thefollowing ZIMSTAT ODP

• Link: https://zimbabwe.opendataforafrica.org/

The link is also on the Agency’s website:www.zimstat.co.zw

Data Catalog application allows users to browse available datasets on a website providing the following functionality:

Browse - by publication date, topic, source and name

Visualize - contents (time series) by topics/indicator etc. and view selected time series as table/chart;

Export

Save

ZIMBABWE NATIIONAL STATISTICS AGENCY

This COVID-19 page created fortimely information to helpmonitor and mitigate the socialand economic impacts of thecrisis.

Users can build their owndashboards with combinationof tables, charts, maps and textsupporting a specific story.

These dashboards can beshared to other users throughthe web or social networks,exported to Excel/PowerPoint,embedded to blogs or externalweb sites

ZIMBABWE NATIIONAL STATISTICS AGENCY

Thank you