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Statistical Analysis Of The Federal Government’s Expenditure And Revenue From The 2003 – 2008
[A CASE STUDY OF NATIONAL BUREAU OF STATISTICS, KADUNA STATE]
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1.1 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The
National Bureau of statistics (NBS) has a humble beginning starting in
1928 as a statistics unit in the office of the colonial secretary in the
cabinet secretariat of British Colonial administration.
In 1947 a
more focused reorganization took place with the establishment of a
statistics section in the department of customs and exercise which later
metamorphosed into a full pledged department of statistics.
In 1949,
the departments responsibilities were expanded to form the nucleus of a
centralized national statistics office for the country with the
adoption of the federal system of government in 1968 central and the
regional government had their statistics establishments incorporated
into a decentralized National Statistics System (NSS). A legal frame
work for statistics operation in Nigeria was unable with the statistics
act of 1937. The act gave backing for a decentralized statistical system
but advocated collaboration between the central and regional
statistical office in addition to co-ordinate their activities.
At
independence in 1960, the department of statistics was moved from
customs and excuse to the Federal Ministry of Economic Development with
its name changed to the federal office of statistics (FOS) in the 1980s
further re-organization of the Nigeria statistics system (NSS) led to
the Central Bank of Nigeria taking on the collection of financial
statistics and the National Population Commission given the
responsibility of population statistics including the conduct of census
length and collection of vital statistics like birth and death
registrations and immigration statistics, as well as the conduct of
demography and health surveys.
In 1989, a wholly computerized data
management agency was established called National Data Bank (NDB). NDB
is a data house, was designed to hold time series data dating back to
1914 when Nigeria was created. The agencies FOS and NDB maintained a
complex and over lapping relationship with other members of the National
Statistical Offices (NSO) itself. Reforms started the repositioning of
the federal office of statistics (FOS) in 2004 when it was merged with
the National Data Bank. The reforms in driver by the statistical master
plan (SMP) produced by the Federal Government of Nigeria with assistance
from the World Bank.
The merged of FOS and NDB led to the
establishment of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) to give the
agency a National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) to give the agency a
National outlook as the apex statistical agency for all the three tiers
of government. NBS is expected to co-ordinate system of the production
of official statistics all the federal ministries departments and
agencies (MDAS), state statistical agencies (SAS) and local government
council (LGC). The 1957 statistics act has been repeated and a new bill
has been passed to give NBS a legal backing.
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