ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) has launched two dashboards, including Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey (PSLM) - SDGs and Price under its special initiative of "Digital Transformation" aimed at collecting, compiling and dissemination of data in a reliable way.

The PBS for achieving its objective of collecting, compiling and dissemination of data in reliable and user friendly way has taken initiative under "Digital Transformation" of the PBS to shift from uni-dimensional approach of data dissemination of providing data in fixed/aggregate format, to an interactive and customised approach, which will provide latest information along with time series data and infographic of data dissemination through dash board.

In this regard, the PBS has launched two dashboards.

These dashboards will provide open access of data with gender and urban/rural break down along with comparison with previous years of various indicators as per requirement of data users, and facilitate the users to access the valuable information under one umbrella in a minimum time.

The initiative of the PBS will lead to increased used of the PBS data for evidence-based policy and planning.

Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey (PSLM) was a PSDP-funded project.

The PSLM Project commenced in 2004 and continued up to June, 2015.

The PSLM Project was designed to provide social and economic indicators in the alternate years at provincial and district levels.

Afterwards, the PSLM has become regular activity of the PBS.

The PSLM district-level survey collects information on key social indicators, whereas, the PSLM provincial-level survey, which is called PSLM/HIES, gather information on income and consumption as well as on social indicators.

Eleven rounds of the PSLM have been completed.

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