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11/20/1954 - East Africa High Commission: -14 The East African Statistical Department by John B. George

NOt INSTITUTE OF CUKKENT WOKLD AFFAIRS JBG Washington D C East Africa High Oommission November The East African Statistical Department Mr Walter S Rogers Institute Orrent World Affairs Fifth Avenue New York New York Dear Mr Rogers The African Statistical Department overall statlstical agency Africa Its Eeneral includes collection compilation anaysls publication statIstica information economic social affairs East Africa A principal objective organization coordinated pattern soclal economic statistics relating tothe territories At request various governments performs special statistical studies The problem difficulties facing Department those arising nioneer nature coordinated statistical Africa coupled administrative difficulties shortage quallfled staff housing office accommodations A Statistical Section origlnally formed under Oonference East African Governors It lapsed in9but revlve Re established under East African S atistlcal Department January immediately under executive Jurisdiction High Commission brought within urvle Central Legis atlve Assembly formed The Department reorganlze rovide East African basis essentia statistics which nanned develop depend I Ths economic fields which according former Ghairman High ommisson should immediate concern High Commission Central Assembly The Economic Secretary noted Gentral 5egislative Assembly Anril East Arican tatistical information establishe He sentences Sir Wilfred Woods fiscal survey Kenya Tanganyika Uganda I cannot claim estimates udments renort ntains foundation ordinated statistica information In informa exist Until Department operated under various territoria legislations regulations Statistics Ordinance Statlstical bills Kenya lanned Uganda Tanganyika after refons Department these enacted estab lishment Central legislative Assembly newer slate subject became obabiity As result methods collection collation uniform among territories rovlded orderly comparative statistics Africa Moreover conslderable Denartment Eenya because emnowerin leglslation Denartment arrears Tanganylka Uganda This situation remedied passage Centra legislative Assembly April East African ordinance Sta tistics Act which provided uniform Section statistics throughout African territories The Deoartment scheduled service High Commission The Director Statistics charge Department responsible Administrator Principa Executive Officers High Commission The Department headquarters Nairobi Sub Offices Tanganyika Sub Office Dar Salaam which opened January through transfer Tanganyika subordinate census staff Uganda Sub Office ntebbe which during Each office headed statistician directly responsible Director In order prevent government obtaining extra services financed inter territorial contribu tions Department consisted small central Basic Service financed equal contributions three territories other special services units performing particular services financed territory demanding service In Basic Service divided sections Section A Trade Finance Prices 4anpower under Statistician Section B Natural Resources Vital Statistics Sampling Procedure under Statistician Section C Office Services ersonneS under Secretary Section D Accounts Estimates under Accountant Section E Hollerith Machine Insta atiou under Controller At special servi three Develo Sections three territories The Kenya Development Section housed headquarters organization Nairobi Uganda Tanganyika DeveloFment Sections respective territorial offices The Knya Develo Section financed Kenya Government divided Social Accounting Nationa Income Section Agricultural Statistics Section The National Income S Bctiou executivey controlled High Commission Admi nistrator Oirector although Do control hands Kenya Government Statistics Definitions Committee advised Director Statistics riorities The Agricultural Statistics Section formed January Kenya Government mainly personnel transferred Board Agriculture Kenya The Uganda Tanganyika Development Sections offices divided Family Budget Surveys Social Accounting NationaS Income Studies An earlier special service Depart abolished Census Organization It finance territories analyse East African population census The division Department Basic Service Swecia Services commented annual report Department Whie admitting greater flexibility division permitted Director mentioned raised problems ordinatlon activ ities In staff Department insufficient carry detailed requested three governments The authorized establish orovided Director statisticians should economic quali ications there Director economic statistician mathematicians Unavailability qualified economic statisticians necessary exwerience nrevented imnle mentation decision territorial offices Dar Salaam ntebbe In total staff there still shortage nrofessiona staff statistician administra secretary accountant which meant limited nrofessional staff srend administrative executive matters In posts Secretary Accountant filled officers posted Dar Salaam Entebbe Basic Service statisticians August During Basic Service retained allotment statisticians Uganda Development Sction without rrofessional staff about three months Agricultural Statistics Section Eenya statistician During Basic Service remained continua understaffed Professional Uganda office filled statistician Tanganyika Development Service could recruited until In total staff distributed differently various sections figure increased The total included IO statisticians I secretary I accountant Grade I clerks Grade II clerks Through office acconodation ousin remained difficult Since housin situation imurovsd there major diffi culties respect office accommodation Constant changes location headquarters Nairobi harassed beginning headquarters moved fifth years further anned The annual report ained constant transfer involved files machinery necessary statistical headquarters detrimental efficiency This condition aggravated until transfer Derartment housed under headquarters staff shifting office another Nairobi machine clerical sections housed senarately Nairobl several miles This decreased efficiency Department necessary deays shuttlin between addresses difficulty coordination In Director insisted rewort single building statistical staff esseutia efficiency After unified accommodations headquarters staff provided there still remained roblem storing earier records The housed unsatis factorily inflammable dustroof buiSding Nairobi Nest reported disintegrating The Tanganyika Uganda Governments supplied necessary office accommoda Derartment offices Secretariats those governments renorted satisfactory The staff housing Fosition remained acute In housing osition European staff generally stisfactory three territories Asia African housing short articu Nairobi Dar Salaam tebbe where housing shorta subordinate staff delayed bringing these offices establishment In European housing reForted satisfactory ositio Africans improved there still shortage Asian housing eseciaily Nairbi enditures East African Statistical Denartment years follows Basic Service Recurrent ST4 O ordinary O OO1 _Tota W Oenss Recurrent Nati0na_l ngome Enquiry Kenya Recurrent Develormnt Service _Ua2da Recurrent xtraordinary Total Total excluding Porulation Census Foulation Census TOTAY The revenue Department Ih99 Ir655 The expenditures Basic Service Derartment rrovided equal contributions three East African territories The srecial services Development Sections ehtirely government which warticu service oerformed Of total contributions amounting Bl Kenya fourth Tauganyika Uganda In Kenya nrovided nerceut contribu tions remainder equal contributions Tangauyika Uganda In however ercentages total contribution B Kenya Tauganyika Uganda These dispronortions partSy explained additioneS contribu tions Kenya National Income Enquiry Uganda Development Service The Population ensus financed contributions Kenya Uganda Tanganyika Zanzibar Zanzibar contributing percent mainland territories contribu percent The Statistics Act gives legal authority Denartment collect compile statistics comparable basis throughout three territories The duties Director Department therefore Denartment section Statistics Act census territories collect comoile analyse abstract nublish statistical information relating commercial industria agricu tural mining social economic genera activities condition people T erritories colaborate services High Commission departments Governments Territories collection compilation analysis ication statistical records adminis tration generally organize ordinated scheme socia economic statistics relating Territories The section provides Directorts obligation undertake duties similar these relation British Possession directed Administrator The report Statistical Derartment summarizes duties collection quantitative information comparable scientific analysis information aration guide those responsible takin No decisions The Director decide statistics should collected where should collected The High Commission emrowered order takin census subject approval resolu Central legislative Assembly The order specify dates census information obtained The Administrator empowered direct Director collect Director approve Director collect other statistics relating subects First Schedule Act which amended High Commission bject rroval Assembly Such statistics shall collected however until egula tions published rescribin particulars information furnished The Regulations before Central Assembly meetin after their publication Assembly within seven thereafter annul regulations which cease effect without nreudice validity action previously taken under The Administrator request Government BritiSh Possession outside East Africa example Zanzibar issue direction census collect statistics Possession payment territory respect Many regulations permittin collecting statistical information under Act enacted Some these regula tions ermitted ectin statistical information under Act which previously collected under number Ordinances throughout territories But permitted collection statistics revlously collscted Since Department became High Commission agency carried larger investigations studies Since requirements East African governments somewhat paralle these studies mainSy living surveys retail price indices censuses agricultural studies The Department maintained general retai price indices consumer goods normally consumed Euroreans Asians Nairobi Kapala Entebbe Dar Salaam Retail nrice indices goods normally consumed Africans ombasa Nairobi Dar Salaam Eampala comniled revised Cost iving indices excSuding compiled Euroneau Asian rorulation Nairobi Kamraa Dar Salaam Family budget survsys studies pattern income exrenditure consumption among unskilled African Saber urban areas which nrovide information which policy decisions concerning minimum wages within townships carried DBve nment Sections Der artment The first survey carried Bst Uganda Government KampaSa Aril In carried Uganda Mbale Mbarara Masaka Kampala Jina carried request Tanganyika Government recommendations labour Commissioner Dar Salaam Sub Office Statistician another carried Nairobi request Kenya Government In surveys Kampala Jinja pilot survey Entebbe carried Uganda Develop Section European family budget surveys Tanganyika Kenya cooperation Tanganyika Women Service league East African Womens League The Denartment designed schedules analysed returns issued reports annual censuses African labor three territories The organization World Agricultural Census East Africa reswonsibility Departments Agriculture Statistica Department assisting panning analysis snecial requested Tanganyika Kenya governments The Denartment planned sample censuses African agriculture Tanganyika Kenya which intended acreages production crops rovince The sample surveys carried during analysed Denrtment In study researches obtain adequate information concernin distribution exnsnditure determine which items should general index agricultural costs A study yields wheat maize nrevious years Kenya Government In study discover useful methods casting East Africa using Kenya example undertaken In Department studied osition a_ricultura statistics Uganda future requirements In Department undertook analysis secial survey obtain information density different types sizes trees Uganda forest In introduction Immigration Ordinances East African territories Dartment nrnad draft schedules immigration articuSars these Droposals acceted modified three territories Since Department contro compiled comparable statistics immigration three territories In statistics mi2ration years tOSgC rearranged esily comoarab later statistics Until Kenya territory which emigration statistics aintaind which annua renorts migration ubished Dpartment The Department aarently urged other territories emigration statistics In Department asked organize collection emigration statistics Tanganyika coection system started February The intro duction emigration recording Uganda discussed In following study accuracy registration African vital statistics Uganda which indicated rater contro necessary Department bcame agency resnonsib thering registrations native births deaths Uganda The quarter records thereafter returned quickly Further studies accuracy registration revea registration consistent comprehensive By returns being scrutinized inaccuracies staff wosition prevented adequate study records In order provide better basis aroximate estimates natur increase Protectorate planned select concentrate records various areas where registration seemed comnlete these provd mentioned report In Department wlans introduce birth death registration Africans satanic areas Kenya Tauganyika The Department analyzed msdical examinations African labor recruits Tanganyika The analysis examinations comleted early naysis comnleted In Department advised African Medica Survey statistical ethods analysed collected maternity histories laboratory general medical examination records In medical examination Indian schoolboys analysed effort assess possible effects malnutrition In addition these studies Department collected analysed ished basic statistical information regular statisticaS series trans company formation banking finance insurance agricuStural rroduction buiSdiu mining which ubSished since October quarterly African Economic Statistical Bulletin Annual Trade Renorts ublishsd since oiSns S953 nubication African Statistical Year Book information economic social subects period since This however readied because staff shortages Since A9 request Tanganyika Government Department resnonsibe reparation statistics ublished Monthly Statistical Supnlement Tsnganyika Territory zette first issue which aearsd January March Beginning Departmsnt analyses annual quarterly monthly trade statistics Zanzibar Comwtro Customs Zanzibar being charged these services Sincs Department responsible ordination returns Secretary State Colonies East Africa High Commission tsrritories The Department complied varied requests statistical material planning other urposes nment departments government bodies Africa persons visiting Africa firms East Africa For example Denartment rerared material Central African Rail Develoomnt Survey In cases information required provided Deoartments wubictious special researches studies carri The Department given advice trritorial government depart ments scheduSes collection statistics Among schedules designed Department those minerals Iands Mines Department Tanganyika agriculture rerared Kenya medical statistics dsigned crime statistics prepared In Dnartment roross discussed future sntation statistics external trade Commissioner Customs PSnns lection statistics traffic discussed Director Civil Aviation SOSl operation Iu Director chairman committee which ointed East African Timbsr Advisory Board consider methods imrroving forest nroducts statistics Th Cormtto rached areomont proposals imnrovement contained memorandum DeDartm In memorandum aproved East African Timber Advisory Board Various recommendations Department regarding_ statistics agreed Conservators Forests Commissioner Customs A Special Service Department Census Organization swecifically Director Statistics Secretary East African Census anned Fast African opulation census territories advised administrative officer appointed territorial government methods adopted The Department issued detailed instructions schedules basic propaganda On completion census Department analysed comnleted schedules In Department comrleted reports native census hical tribal studies three territories giving statistics location districts analysis total Zanzibar censu carried research fertility population growth based census figures With abolition census section Basic Service reassumed responsibility study opulation statistics In tabulations literacy religion fertility interesting results birth rates possible rates natural increase obtained I further studies fertility revised estimates birth rates prepared stimates nowulation prepared inormation death rates prevented roductlon estimates In Director request United Nations revised UN Report Population Tananyika In Basic Service planned organized analysed Tangnyika census natives Africans residing towns which taken February In conjunction census Department planned small social surveys Dar Salaam Tanga causes reportedly supervisory wromised Tangauyika Government Dar Salaam survey carried material because inexperience enumerators valuable enough publication A African census Uganda including ships tradin centers suburban areas Kampa Jina proposed early The Kenya Natlona Income nquiry section raphics incoms oroduct beginning report being table Kenya legislative Oouncil durlnE Budget Sessions This hindered absence income statistics The Income Tax authorities collect information prowortion employed population Statistical Department access records The collection information wages salaries there major activity section dunlicated Income Tax Department This information obtained special enumerations African African emwloyees conducted annually Kenya Labor Department Statistical Department respectively The Kenya National Income Enquiry section carried other surveys behalf Kenya Government anaysisc trade icences issued studies emnoyment earnings invsstment internal trade agriculture analysis functional basis financial accounts Kenya weriod jointly Treasury One statistician section served Statistical Adviser Msize Fixin Conitt during statistician arpointed committee investigating cereal rroduction The Agricultural Statistics Section Kenya during first years studied available statistical material nlanned Imrrovement collected basic information analysed certain censuses carried Eenya Government agricultural machinery nlemnts survey livestock ponulation census study yield native maize wheat crops geographical The Uganda Development Section carried analysed African family budget surveys surveys unskilled African labor Kamoa Jinja It planned collected material study Uganda national income publishing estimates December The Dar Salaam Sub Office besides undertaking great administrative connection census Tanganyia completed considerable general statistical This included collection statistical tables compilation Monthly Statist Supplement assisting territorial labour Derartment coding medical cards contract labor carrying collection routine statistical information organizing Euro family budget survey preparing wublication abBtract statistics series commencing In Director visited United States study statistical methods there He attended First Conference Colonial Government Statisticians March Conference Statisticians countries Africa south Sahara Salisbury July In June advice Governor General Belgian Congo Congo Director Statistics Secretary visited Department East Africa study methods narticu methods native census taking The Administrative Director International Union Scientific Study Population visited Department particular interest population fertility studies He advice methods systems analysis He spoke approvingly amount rsearch under taken development ation statistics East Africa The D epartment claims close contact East African Institute Social Economic Research economists staff Makerere CoI The strong support which Statistical Denartment business community East Africa suggested East African Association Chambers Commerce Industry proposed strengthenin Department statistical units within territorial governments A committee Aszociation which suggest methods imrovin statistics light industrial commercial needs mitted rport spring The committee regretted coordination between East African Governments High Commission Statistical Department statln there reason believe informa nossesslon De artment often anning occupies rather academic nosition The committee believed there wastag government denartments collect their statistical information these figures inaccurate could dangerous misleading Having comrared merits centralized decentralized statiWtical servicethe committee recommended elimina separate statisticaS organizations overn departments exnansion central Statistical Department The committee reort continued The Governments advised experts visited territories committees which better statistical services essential comparison development other Departments other types research development Statistical Department When remembered statistical department covers economic social subjects finances staff East African Statistical De artment infinitesimal relation those other research bodies meteorological service The committee proposed setting advisory board official majority members agriculture commerce industry review statistical service advise governments development The committ suggested governments should review their contributions StatisticaS Department their develonment rograms considerin2 nossibSe saving future years rlans based accurate information These recommendations fully arroved Association Dar Salaam Chamber Co merce makiu apwrova subject uslou Tanganyika statistics oared Denartment provision territory statistica mterial needed submission UN Trusteeship Council The Association annual session September passed motion noting reret qualified aprroval given High Commission As sociation recommendation strengthened statistical department askin decision future policy regarding statistics included High Comisslous estimates following Sincerely John B George PeS Footnotes Economic Secretary Oentral Legislative Assembly Vol II No I April East Africa High Commission Reor E A Statistica Department Zear I East Africa High Commission as_t_African StatlsticalDenartment Annual Re Section Statistics Act T Laws Hih Commission Revised Ohapter P East Africa High Oommission East African Statistics Department Annual East Africa High Commission A Rp0 E A Statistica Dear Year East Africa HiKh Commission African Statistical Department Annual Reo East Afrc Standa A Sources EastAfricaHighCommission An Re nortL A_ Statis_tica rtment Year Annua_l Report E A S _tatisti Devartment YerL East African St De artment Annual _R_enort East Afri Statistical De artment An Ea African St atistic Depa tment Annual_Re The Laws rural sslqn Re Chapter Interterritorial Cooperation Work East Africa Central Legislative Assembly De No I 19thMay fromP E Mitcheli Ohaiman Fast Africa High Commission Secretary State Colonies Fin ancia R_ St atement Year Annual Repo C Accounti Offic Year Financial Statements Reort Thereon Director Audit K__m Central legislative Assembly Debates Vol II No Colonia Office Annual Rort Afric High Commission fo_is_ inauural Yea Annu Report East Africa High Commission Annual Re East A__f Commissiqn Annual Reort East Africa High Commission Several issues East African Standard Tananika Standard