Sampling design, weighting, and estimations training in Zambia

Under the framework of the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics (GSARS), a training course on Sampling design, weighting, and estimations took place in the FAO representation in Zambia from February 20th to 24th, 2023.

The Assistant to the FAO Representative in Zambia and the Director of Agricultural Statistics opened the ceremony and the training was led by Desire Nkezabahizi, a statistician at the Statistics Division of the FAO.

The main objective of the workshop was to provide in-depth training on sampling and estimations procedures for agricultural surveys.

There was one woman out of 10 participants, who came from the Directorate of Agricultural Statistics from the Ministry of Agriculture - MoA, the Zambia Statistics - ZamStats, and FAO representative in Zambia.

At the end of the training, the participants expressed good satisfaction with the knowledge acquired, and most of them found the training useful for their current work which will make it possible to improve agricultural surveys.