Arabic: الوكالة الوطنية للإحصاء والتحليل الديموغرافي والاقتصادي French: Agence Nationale de la Statistique, de l'Analyse Démographique et Economique | |
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Formed | 10 February 2021 |
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Type | Public establishment of an administrative nature |
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Tevragh Zeina,
Nouakchott-Ouest 18°6′49″N 15°58′54″W / 18.11361°N 15.98167°W |
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ansade |
The National Agency for Statistics, Demographic and Economic Analysis ( Arabic: الوكالة الوطنية للإحصاء والتحليل الديموغرافي والاقتصادي, French: Agence Nationale de la Statistique, de l'Analyse Démographique et Economique), abbreviated ANSADE, is the national statistics service of Mauritania, dependant on the Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development.
The agency, structured as an établissement public à caractère administratif, was created on 10 February 2021 through the merger of the former National Office of Statistics (ONS) and the Mauritanian Center for Policy Analysis, created with the intention of both improving the work of the former ONS and centralising data analysis conducted by other agencies into a single establishment.
The agency is responsible for establishing an integrated national system for collecting, processing, analysing and disseminating economic, demographic, social and environmental statistics, using either censuses, surveys or documents from the public or private sector.
The agency has been headed since its creation by Mohamed Moctar Ould Ahmed Sidi as Director General, who was the Director of the disestablished ONS. His Deputy Director General is Ba Omar. [1]
ANSADE is a member of the Economic and Statistical Observatory of Sub-Saharan Africa (AFRISTAT). [2]
According to the decree creating the agency, ANSADE is in charge of the following: [3]