THE OPEN DATA INVENTORY – ODIN

The Open Data Inventory (ODIN) assesses the coverage and openness of official statistics to identify gaps, promote open data policies, improve access, and encourage dialogue between national statistical offices (NSOs) and data users.

Data assessed in ODIN must be official data for the country, published on the website of the national statistical office (NSO) or on any other official website of the country linked to the NSO's website.

The 2024 ODIN ranking covers 198 countries, with Kazakhstan ranked 44th with an overall score of 72. The overall score is a combination of a data coverage score of 74 and a data openness score of 70.

Compared to the 2022 rating, Kazakhstan has improved its position (2022 - 51st place out of 195 countries, overall score 63 points), thanks to the work carried out with recommendations from ODIN experts.

The indicators for both components have improved - "Coverage" (from 50 to 74) and "Openness" (from 55 to 70) out of a possible 100 points. A particularly high result was achieved for the "Coverage" indicator, where Kazakhstan took 14th place among 198 countries.

However, there are still a number of issues that need improvement in both areas, both data coverage and openness (see figure below).

More detailed information about Kazakhstan is available at this link: https://odin.opendatawatch.com/Report/countryProfileUpdated/KAZ?year=2022 .

The World Bank annually publishes information on the Statistical Performance Indicators (SPI).

The objective of SPI is to assess the maturity and effectiveness of national statistical systems - to provide user-oriented, reliable, and high-quality official statistics that are important for achieving global prosperity and progress. SPI is assessed on various criteria that combine 5 pillars, 22 dimensions and more than 50 indicators from multiple data sources.

Assessment of countries within SPI allows:

• contribute to understanding the maturity of the national statistical system;
• identify relative strengths and weaknesses of the system;
• show examples of good practice;
• evaluate progress;
• encourage continuous improvement.

According to 2023 data, Kazakhstan's national statistical system ranks 65th out of 217 countries in the SPI ranking, with a score of 79.8 out of 100. Detailed information on each of the 5 components is provided below.

Compared to 2022, the ranking for 2023 has increased in two positions, and the NSS of Kazakhstan took 65th place, and the overall score increased from 78 to 79.1 points. The increase in the overall score was mainly due to an increase in pillar 4 “Data sources” (+7.7) and pillar 5 “Data infrastructure” (+5), however, there was a decrease in pillar 3 “Data products” (-4.4) and pillar 2 “Data services” (- 0.3).

In general, it should be noted that the most significant deterioration of Kazakhstan's position in the SPI ranking occurred in 2021, when compared to 2020 we lost 19 positions - from 48th place (81) in 2020 to 67th place (78.3) by 2021. The deterioration of scores was mainly due to 3 pillars - "Data Use" (-10), "Data Sources" (-1.66) and "Data Infrastructure" (-10), despite a significant increase in the " Data Products" pillar (+8.19).

More detailed information can be found at this link: https://datanalytics.worldbank.org/SPI/ .