{"video_description":{"idno":"VDO_006","title":"Data for Development - The World Bank's LSMS team on the road in Uganda","date_published":"2017-04-07","description":"Data for Development - The World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study team on the road in Uganda. Talip Kilic and James Muwonge of the Uganda Bureau of Statistics explain why accurate data is so important to sustainable development, and how 'Behind every data point is a human story'.","genre":"Documentary","main_entity":"World Bank","content_reference_time":"2017","languages":[{"name":"English","code":"EN"}],"creator":"World Bank \/ The Crowd & The Cloud","video_url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EsXY9KgR9Tc","embed_url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EsXY9KgR9Tc","duration":"PT6M06S","transcript":[{"language":"English","text":"0:00\nin the developed world data are often as\n0:02\nplentiful and varied as food at a\n0:05\nfarmers market in developing nations\n0:08\nhowever it's often quite different the\n0:10\ndata just aren't there but for farmers\n0:13\nknowing what crops are selling where and\n0:16\nfor how much is essential information\n0:19\nand for governments knowing what crops\n0:22\ngrow where is critical for developing\n0:24\nfood policies for entire nations every\n0:39\nsingle data point has a human story\n0:44\n[Music]\n0:48\nthat human story the story that tells me\n0:51\nhow agriculture is linked to nutrition\n0:55\noutcomes how people make employment\n0:58\nchoices whether they have access to\n1:01\nhealth care what determines that being\n1:04\nable to answer these questions are\n1:05\nimportant but for me to be able to do\n1:08\nthat I need to be here I need to be able\n1:10\nto observe it I need to get to this\n1:12\nplace\n1:13\nit could be three hours away from the\n1:15\nasphalt road it could be 15 minutes away\n1:17\nfor us it doesn't matter we need to get\n1:20\nthere we need to get it done in Uganda\n1:23\ntallip is working with local partners at\n1:26\nthe Bureau of Statistics to fill a data\n1:29\ngap about living standards all across\n1:31\nthe nation I've been working with Teddy\n1:34\nsince 2009 it all started with a need to\n1:40\nhave routine regular and reliable\n1:44\nstatistics if you need to know where you\n1:48\nare going and how you're moving there\n1:50\nthen you need statistics talib James and\n1:53\ncolleagues have trained hundreds of\n1:54\nUganda's to collect accurate data from\n1:57\nthe household surveys that might sound\n2:00\neasy but in a bustling big city like\n2:02\nKampala without street names and numbers\n2:04\nor in the remote countryside capturing\n2:08\nthe data that can shape sustainable\n2:10\ndevelopment policies is never easy\n2:14\nwhen we think about a typical household\n2:17\nsurvey interview in Kampala in some\n2:20\nsense getting there is a sensory\n2:22\noverload when you're walking through the\n2:25\nstreet of Kampala you will find traffic\n2:28\njams you will find people on motorcycles\n2:31\ngetting off taxis people from different\n2:33\nwalks of life different ethnicities\n2:35\npeople that speak different languages\n2:38\nyou might find yourself in a very busy\n2:40\nmarketplace with all sorts of goods and\n2:42\nproduce and sold around you people doing\n2:45\nall sorts of jobs so at the end of the\n2:49\nday doing surveys in urban Kampala\n2:52\nbecomes quite difficult here in Uganda\n2:55\nroughly 20% of the population is\n2:58\nestimated to be living in poverty so for\n3:01\nus to really end extreme poverty we need\n3:04\nto be able to benchmark it we need to be\n3:06\nable to measure it well and do that in a\n3:09\nsustainable fashion most of the\n3:11\npopulation is I did it wrong we have\n3:14\nabout 20% living in urban areas but 80%\n3:17\nlive in rural areas getting to our\n3:22\nintended destinations is is really one\n3:27\nof the most challenging parts of our job\n3:31\n[Music]\n3:40\nthe thrill of getting to an enumeration\n3:44\narea one of 80,000 enumeration areas\n3:47\nthat we could have sampled from picking\n3:49\nthat one and setting that target and\n3:51\ngoing there yeah is a thrill\n3:54\nyou know enough it's off and especially\n3:55\nif you think about a landscape like this\n3:57\nwhich is just simply epic is is a\n4:01\nromantic idea looking behind me it\n4:06\nreally gives you that sense that\n4:08\nagriculture is a key contributor to\n4:11\nthese people's lives if you think beyond\n4:13\nthis community if you think about Uganda\n4:14\nagriculture is the primary contributor\n4:17\nto the gross domestic product right now\n4:19\nwe just got done measuring her parcel so\n4:24\nto capture the area of the parcel the\n4:26\nenumerator is following the head of the\n4:28\nhousehold walking the perimeter of the\n4:31\nparcel so that we can demarcate the\n4:33\nparcel boundaries and as she's doing\n4:35\nthat the enumerator has her GPS unit on\n4:38\nbasically recording her track GPS\n4:41\nsensors get position data from\n4:42\nsatellites but just as with surveys of\n4:45\ntrees birds or butterflies it takes\n4:48\nboots on the ground feet in the field to\n4:51\nadd that local knowledge without which\n4:53\nthe data would have no meaning it takes\n4:56\nboth high tech and humans from the\n4:59\nmoment the interviewer asks a question\n5:02\nthe response becomes a numerical data\n5:05\npoint when you look at the numbers and\n5:07\nyou can see how that's changing our\n5:09\nunderstanding of Africa how does\n5:11\nchanging the understanding of these\n5:13\neconomies that did not have these data\n5:14\nbefore we've been one heading Parvati\n5:17\nsince the 1992\n5:19\nand in 1992 56% of the population was\n5:24\npoor in Uganda and that number hazardous\n5:28\nto 19.7%\n5:31\nit is statistics that informed poverty\n5:35\neradication action plan how far have we\n5:38\nmoved where are we now even when we are\n5:42\nlong gone you know whoever comes to take\n5:45\nover will be able to still use them as a\n5:48\nsemantic change and know this is well\n5:50\nmoved from and this is where we yeah\n5:53\nand so to me collecting information and\n5:56\nseeing it being used best the\n5:59\nsatisfaction I get\n6:04\nyou"}]},"schematype":"video","resources":[]}