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How to access OECD statistical information - an interactive workshop for delegations lars.thygesen@oecd.org. Contents. What are the delegations' needs for statistics? Dissemination policy and the Statistical Information System Finding statistics Metadata : the key to understanding

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  1. How to access OECD statistical information- an interactive workshop for delegationslars.thygesen@oecd.org

  2. Contents • What are the delegations' needs for statistics? • Dissemination policy and the Statistical Information System • Finding statistics • Metadata : the key to understanding • How to make visual material from OECD.Stat • Use of other sources: UN, World Bank, national sources • Future

  3. What are the delegations' needs for statistics?

  4. Examples of needs ? • Find one indicator for all OECD countries • e.g. GDP per capita • Make a PowerPoint graph? • Use it for a paper? • Find a distribution for one or more countries • e.g. GDP by activity for US.... • e.g. investment in knowledge

  5. Examples: Austria • FDI • Commodity trade • Trade in services

  6. Dissemination policy and the Statistical Information System

  7. Present OECD platforms • The Statistics Portal www.oecd.org/statistics • Freely available • Limited datasets (“10%”) • Mixed formats • SourceOECD • Subscription service • Free at point of access • Analytical publications and Beyond 20/20 databases • OLIS • Extranet for government officials • Free access to statistics data warehouse OECD.Stat • Free access to all publications

  8. Some trends • Revenues €4.5 million / year • Printed statistical publications still in demand • Cross-domain products: OECD Factbook, Country Statistical Profiles • StatLink: URL to Excel tables

  9. What is the Statistical Information System? • Immense integrated statistical information bank • Data and metadata can be combined and used over and over again, for innumerable outputs • Horizontal products covering various subject matters can be developed at a reasonable cost • Provided data and metadata are properly organised

  10. Production Storage Dissemination OECD.Stat Data Production (incl. StatWorks) Corporate Data Warehouse Online access Books CDs etc. MetaStore XML XML Statistical Metadata SIS Architecture • 80 % of all statistics • The rest in 2006

  11. SIS benefits • Quality • Harmonisation of concepts • Improved statistical metadata • Coherence of data and metadata across datasets • Dynamic updating • SDMX • User friendliness • One-stop database • Combine data across themes • Alternative outputs for different audiences • Internal Efficiency

  12. Finding OECD statistics

  13. Access to OECD.Stat • Access to the data warehouse restricted • OECD officials • government officials through OLIS • a few datasets on the Internet • January-September 750,000 downloads • of which 710,000Internet use • 30,000 from OLIS

  14. Accessing OECD statistics • OLIS (with a logon) • horizontal access to all databases and vertical access within each database • targeted at users who have skill and time • books and publications • Free on Internet: Core Data • key ready-made tables and sub-sets • 500-1000 tables and sub-sets • targeted at expert users and informed lay users • Statistics Portal • StatLinks • e.g. Factbook 2006 p. 115

  15. Most accessed 2006

  16. Metadata: The key to understanding

  17. Access to metadata • together with data in OECD.Stat • well structured • attachment levels • independently and freely on www • MetaStore • “Google for numbers” • easy to find • deep descriptions

  18. Making visual material

  19. Tables or Graphs • From StatLinks to PPT • e.g. all Factbook graphs • From OECD.Stat via Excel to PPT • anything you like • Don’t fill it too much – keep it simple • Careful with sizes

  20. Top 10 datasets accessed by OLIS 2006

  21. Real GDP growth, per cent

  22. Using other sources

  23. Where can I find other sources ? • OECD Statistics Portal, Sources • UN Demographic Yearbook • CIA World Factbook

  24. Future

  25. Develop infrastructures & products • Develop integrated dissemination • OECD Statistics • Branding & standardising Core Data • Develop Figures & Facts • Diversify according to user groups • Cross-domain products

  26. New opportunities • publications can be smaller and more analytically focused • new (and existing) horizontal publications • integrate SourceOECD with the free dissemination of basic statistics • links between all the different ways statistics can be viewed • go immediately, e.g., from a database query to a StatLink or a related analytical e-book • fixed and dynamic tables can be stored queries to OECD.Stat

  27. Your feed-back • Did this workshop meet expectations ? • Should there be another one ? • Could we have exercises ? • in a class-room with pc’s • Wishes for contents ? • Ideas about better access to OECD data ?

  28. Tour Europe The End

  29. the following slides are screen-shots that can be shown if Internet or OLIS doesn’t work

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