1.081 million USD

Project implementation:

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA Moldova), in partnership with the National Bureau of Statistics and the Ministry Labor and Social Protection.

Financial assistance for the project:

• India-UN Development Partnership Fund, through the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation
• Ministry Labor and Social Protection
• United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA Moldova)

• The integration of additional administrative data sources will provide more granular data, by including administrative data on migration and asylum, health status, ages and labor costs, education and exploring the mechanism of using alternative data (such as water supply, communications, gas, electricity, heating, mobile phone operators, spatial) into official statistics.
• Respectively, the granular data is the only way through which can enable the Government of the Republic of Moldova to better understand and address the needs of the most vulnerable ones and improve the quality of life with targeted policies to leave no one behind.

Objective 1: By the end of 2025, the National Bureau of Statistics will integrate all administrative data sources in its own information systems, including in the "Population and Migration Statistics" Information System.

Activity 1.1: Assessment and integrate of available administrative data sources, inclusive in the "Population and Migration Statistics" Information System.

Activity 1.2: Improving national capacities for the use of administrative data in the production of official statistics using international good practices.

Activity 1.3: Sharing national experience at regional and global level.

Objective 2: By the end of 2025, the Government of the Republic of Moldova has a robust mechanism for collecting administrative data and survey-based data on the CIPD agenda under the SDGs.

Activity 2.1: Incorporation, collection, and analysis of GBV and SRH indicators from the health information system.

Activity 2.2: Carrying out the "Generations and Gender" study/surveys.

The project is based on two main components:

Component 1 Integration of new administrative data sources, as well as other non-traditional types of data, into the national statistics to facilitate transition to a register-based statistical system.

This component will be implemented in partnership with the National Bureau of Statistics and will facilitate the use of new administrative data sources for the purpose of official social and demographic statistics. Integration of additional administrative data sources will provide more granular data. For instance, by including administrative data on migration and asylum (including legal migration and border crossings – held by Border Police and General inspectorate for Migration), health status (causes of mortality and morbidity – held by the National Agency for Public Health), ages and labor costs (including health and social insurance contributions, taxes collected by the National Health Insurance House, National Social Insurance House, State Tax Service), education (Ministry of Education and Research) and exploring the mechanism of using alternative data (such as water supply, communications, gas, electricity, heating, mobile phone operators, spatial) into official statistics.

The granular data is the only way through which can enable the Government of the Republic of Moldova to better understand and address the needs of the most vulnerable ones and improve the quality of life with targeted policies to leave no one behind. Thanks to this project, the national statistical system will be modernized by expanding the use of administrative data in official statistical production.

Component 2 Is focused on the use south-south cooperation in monitoring demographic changes in the Republic of Moldova based on longitudinal data, to support the country in implementing demographic resilient programs.

This component will be implemented in partnership with the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection and will envisage leveraging cooperation between the Republic of Moldova and other countries, including India, Uruguay, Argentina, Western Balkan countries, Sweden, Netherlands, and others in conducting longitudinal studies for an in-depth analysis of demographic changes. Based on the experience of other countries leveraged through south-south cooperation, the second wave of the Generations and Gender Survey will be conducted in the Republic of Moldova. The study will involve 10,000 respondents from 153 localities of the country and the results of the Generations and Gender Survey will support the Ministry and Government overall to implement targeted policies that address the demographic resilience of the Republic of Moldova (including low fertility, ageing and migration).

• SDG indicator 17.18.1 "Proportion of sustainable development indicators produced at national level, with full disaggregation when relevant to the target, in accordance with the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics".
• SDG indicator 1.4.1 "Proportion of population living in households with access to basic services".
• SDG indicator 3.7.1 "Percentage of women of reproductive age (aged 15-49) whose family planning needs are met by modern methods."
• SDG indicator 3.7.2 "Adolescent birth rate (ages 10 to 14; 15 to 19) per 1,000 women of the respective age group".
• SDG indicator 5.3.1 "Percentage of women aged 20-24 who were married or in a union before age 15 and before age 18". SDG indicator 1.4.1 "Proportion of population living in households with access to basic services".
• SDG indicator 3.7.1 "Percentage of women of reproductive age (aged 15-49) whose family planning needs are met by modern methods."

• Evaluation of 6 sources of administrative data:
  1. General Inspectorate of the Border Police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs;
  2. General Inspectorate for Migration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs;
  3. Ministry of Labor and Social Protection;
  4. Ministry of Education and Research;
  5. National House of Social Insurance;
  6. State Tax Inspectorate.
• Development and integration of the health, social and education modules based on available and relevant administrative data, inclusively by metadata storage system, data exchange module, Application Programming Interfaces etc.
• The National Bureau of Statistics shared the experience in the evaluation of administrative data sources for censuses during the regional training Workshop in the transition to register-based data in the realization of population and household censuses, which took place in Ankara, in June 12-15, 2023.