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funding, national statistical systems will further have tocompete with other institutions for scarce resources.Increases in process efficiency e.g. through innovation canhelp producing better data and increasing theattractiveness for funding and recruiting. However, veryfew national statistical systems in low-income countries,especially in Africa, have either the technical or thefinancial strength to undertake research and development.Even when innovations are ready to be implemented,required initial investments of both money and humanresources are often not available. Budget dependence oninstable domestic funding and tied international supportcomplicates medium term planning to account for positivefuture returns from these initial investments. Regular andpredictable funding will be needed to implement and scaleup data innovations.168