ZamStats enhances skills of its staff in Advanced Statistical Methodologies

The Zambia Statistics Agency (ZamStats) in collaboration with Statistics Sweden has awarded certificates of recognition to nine (9) Statisticians after a successful training in Advanced Statistical Methodology held from 3rd to 13th February, 2025.

The Statisticians cumulatively underwent 4 weeks training in Advanced Statistical Methodology. Held at Southern Sun in Lusaka, the training spearheaded by Statistics Sweden’s statistical methodology experts, namely; Tiina Orusild and Martin Axelsson focused on balancing theoretical fundamentals with practical application especially in sampling and variance estimation, ensuring participants can directly relate concepts learned to real-world scenarios thereby enhancing professional statistical practices.

This initiative is a step towards advancing beyond the foundational methodological training offered through the Statistics in Action (STAC) course and progressing to further enhance knowledge and proficiency in more complex statistical methodology.

This capacity-building training will also help build a core team of sampling statisticians among members of staff, given the complexity of the statistical methodologies. The training was conducted in two phases, with the first phase having taken place in May 2024, which all nine (9) participants successfully engaged in both phases.