Abate Tadesse Zeleke

Head, Department of Statistics

Background

The Department of Statistics, under the college of Natural Sciences was established in 2011 E.C with 58 total number of students and 6 total number of academic staffs, located in Fitche town at Jeneral Tadesse Biru campus about 112 km from Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia. The core areas of the department are teaching, conducting researches, and providing community.

Currently the department has about 45 students enrolled in Bachelor of Science in Statistics regular program and 11 are academic staffs. Since its establishment, department of Statistics graduated more than 70 students and passed through a series of stages of developments and growth. To sustain the progressive expansion and to keep pace with the growing demand for efficient, effective and quality services, the department constantly pursues standard of excellence in teaching, research and community services by working alone and other departments.

The department aimed to train middle level statisticians, conducting problem solving research and delivering community service in order to meet the demands of the socio-economic, business and development sectors in the country.

Graduate Profiles of the department

As the statistics department, a graduate in Statistics is expected skills and qualities are:

• Demonstrate competence in data collection, management, summary and analysis required at many production and development sectors day to day activities,
• Plan and conduct sample surveys and experimental designs,
• Use statistical software to carry out necessary computation for statistical analysis of data,
• write clear statistical reports and communicate the results of statistical analyses in non-technical language,
• demonstrate professional ethics in his/her career,
• Assist in statistical research and the provision of statistical services in research establishments, business and government and non-government institutions
• contribute to the ongoing development of the country in his/her area with sense of responsibility, and
• Supervise and/or manage activities of lower-level statistical units or offices.
• Supervise and/or manage data processing activities in health sectors, financial, agricultural, educational, research institutions and industry sectors

Vision

• Statistics department graduates can able to support evidence-based decision-making processes at both policy and planning levels.

Mission

• Enrich students to coordinate, collect, compile analyses and disseminate high quality and best-practiced official statistics to assist informed decision-making, and discussion within the government, business and the media, as well as the wider national and international community

Objectives of the department

• To train middle level statisticians who can serve in collecting, processing and analyzing statistical data;
• To train middle level statisticians who can assist and conduct statistical research undertakings and provision of statistical services.
• To train middle level statisticians who can organize and produce data in health sectors, financial, agricultural, educational, research institutions and industry sectors.
• To produce middle level statisticians who can manage and supervise the activities of statistical units or offices at both government and nongovernmental organizations;
• To produce potential candidates for graduate studies so as to meet the demand for high level statisticians who can teach and conduct research at HEIs, and other research and training centers.
• To produce who assist and conduct problem solving research and community services.

Staff Profile Details

Academic program offered in the department

• Bachelor of Science in Statistics