Maha Dawas

Statistician expert who has worked in the Jordanian Department of Statistics for more than 24 years, during which I held several positions: "Director of the Data Management Directorate, Head of the Administrative Records Department and Head of the Poverty Statistics Department." worked as a statistical consultant in the field of household and poverty surveys at UNRWA.

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Statistician at the National Planning Council in the State of Qatar. Many household surveys and statistical analyzes were carried out in cooperation with various international organizations and bodies such as UNICEF, UNDP, World Bank, UNFPA, UN Women. ".

Expert in the field of statistical analysis, statistical data processing and statistical reporting. I worked on analyzing household surveys for many Arab countries in the Middle East. I participated in many household surveys.

Also, a member of many technical committees as a technical team member in the Sustainable Development Goals, a technical member in the Household Expenditure and Income Survey, and a technical member in food security. Participated in many national, regional, and international conferences and prepared and published many statistical scientific papers in the field of artificial intelligence and poverty. Moreover, a national and international trainer in the field of poverty and training of field statisticians.

I works as a data scientist in the field of statistics, developing strategies for data analysis, preparing data for analysis and exploration, analyzing, and visualizing data, and Using Artificial Intelligence in creating statistical models with the data using programming languages such as Stata Recently, Prepare published book in title "Introduction to artificial intelligence and statistical data science" on Amazon .com.

Senior Statistician in Aqaba Coastal Ecosystem Biodiversity Enhancement and Resilience Project at UNDP - Jordan (2025-12 – 2026-02)

• Design Questionnaire.
• Open-ended answer classification.
• Writing descriptive statistical reports.

Senior Statistician at National Planning Council - Qatar (2021-02 – 2025-10)

• Preparing the data for analysis (data processing and cleaning using STATA software.
• Writing descriptive statistical reports (Measuring the standard of living, user satisfaction report with statistical data.
• Extracting statistical tables and indicators for the labor force survey (LFS) and HEIS Survey.
• Calculating SDGs indicators from HEIS, and LFS surveys.
• Design Questionnaires.
• Preparing audit rules for surveys.
• Evaluate the questionnaire before starting the survey.
• Technical member in national Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI).
• Technical member in SDGs.

Director of Data Management Directorate at Department of Statistic - Jordan (2019 – 2020)

• Supervising and Follow-up the Business Record Division, Data Management and Gender Statistic Division.
• Supervising cleaning and quality data which coming from Government Ministries.
• Supervising technical and administrative reports.

Head of Data Management Division at Department of Statistic - Jordan (2018 – 2020)

• Assessing availability of basic data related to the indicators in which institutions, their quality and the gaps.
• Building database for a civil registry and population fram.
• Electronic connectivity with all government agencies.
• Follow-up to the National Strategy for Statistics 2018 -2022.

Data Scientist at Department of Statistic - Jordan (2018 – 2024)

• Exploration analyzing and visualizing data.
• Using statistical methods, machine learning, and artificial intelligence in creating statistical models for prediction.
• Using ARDL model for analyzing the determinants of poverty in Jordan.
• Using ARIMA time series model to forecast the 10-year Unemployment rate.
• Using Artificial Neural Networks to visualize Poverty.

Head of Poverty Statistic Division at Department of Statistic - Jordan (2009 – 2020)

• Statistical Analysis.
• Extract indicators of poverty.
• Extract Poverty pockets using PovMap software.
• Writing descriptive statistical reports for poverty in Jordan (2006, 2008, 2010, 2017, and 2021).
• Establishing Database for poverty indicators in Jordan using Dev-Info software in Arabic and English language.
• Establishing Database for quality life indicators in Jordan using Dev-Info software in Arabic and English language.
• Design questionnaire for poverty pockets survey.
• Preparation the rules of the questionnaire for poverty pockets survey.
• Preparation Instruction Manual poverty pockets survey.
• Training on field data collection.
• Writing descriptive statistical report (quality life index in Jordan 2013, comparison quality life index in Jordan (2002, 2010, 2013 and 2017).
• Auditing and cleaning data using SPSS, STATA softwares.
• Writing descriptive statistical report about poverty pockets.
• Writing descriptive statistical report about the feminization of poverty in Jordan.
• Technical member in the Jordan Poverty Reduction Strategy 2013 - 2020.
• Technical member in the Jordan Poverty Reduction Strategy 2019 - 2025.
• Technical member in poverty pockets.
• Working with World Bank to extract poverty pockets 2017-2018 using Small Area Estimation STATA software.

Technical Member in Household Income and Expenditure Survey at Department of Statistic - Jordan (2002 – 2020)

• Field Researcher.
• Statistical Analysis.
• Training on field data collection.
• Design questionnaire.
• Preparation the rules of the questionnaire.
• Preparation Instruction Manual.
• Auditing and cleaning data using SPSS, STATA softwares.
• Preparation of the Annual Department of Statistics project income and expenditure survey of the household.
• Technical member in Household Expenditure and Income survey.
• Imputation missing data for Household expenditure and Income Survey (HEIS) using SPSS, STATA softwares.
• Obtain adjusted weighted for Household expenditure and Income Survey (HEIS) using SPSS, STATA softwares.
• Working with Word Bank for preparing new Expenditure and Income Survey (2017) using new Methodology (sampling, design questioners, data collection, data entry…).

Statistical Analysis in Multidimensional Poverty Index at Department of Statistic - Jordan (2009 – 2020)

• Technical member in National MPI.
• Auditing and cleaning data using SPSS software.
• Writing descriptive statistical reports (quality life index in Jordan 2010, comparison quality life index in Jordan (2002, 2010) in cooporation with UNDP.
• Working with League of Arab States and ESCWA to prepare Multidimensional Poverty index in Arab countries.
• Working with Oxford University (OPHI) and ESCWA to prepare National Multidimensional Poverty index for Jordan 2017-2018.

Statistical Analysis in Food Security at Department of Statistic - Jordan (2010 – 2020)

• Auditing and cleaning data using SPSS, softwares.
• Writing descriptive report (2010, 2013, and 2017).

Sustainable Development Goals Expert (SDGS 2030) at Department of Statistic - Jordan (2016 – 2024)

• Preparing global database for each indicators including "links for each indicator, Periodicity of index extraction, Name of organization, Name of national department for each indicator … ".
• Preparing methodology for each indicator based on IAEG metadata.
• Calculating SDGs indicators from HEIS, and LFS surveys.
• Design questioner to collect the indicators.

Technical member in Demographic and Health Survey (DHS),2017 at Department of Statistic - Jordan (2018 – 2019)

• Statistician.
• Participat in writing descriptive report.

Field Researcher at Department of Statistic - Jordan (2003 – 2005)

• Multi-purpose Household Survey (FAFO).
• General Census of Population and Housing.

Consultant Statistical Analysis of Household Income and Expenditure survey at National Bureau of Statistics – Abu Dhabi (2015 – 2015)

• Auditing and cleaning data using SPSS software.
• Processing the raw data on the statistical program SPSS.

Consultant Statistical Analysis of Poverty at UNRWA Headquarters – Jordan (2014 – 2016)

• Auditing and cleaning raw data for three fields Lebanon, Jordan, and West Bank Using SPSS software.
• Obtain poverty lines and its indicators.
• Writing descriptive reports for three fields Lebanon, Jordan, and West Bank.

B.A in Financial and Banking Sciences – Yarmouk University