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Enhancing Official Statistics with Information Technology: Needs, Design, & Evaluation

Explore the critical role of information technology in official statistics, covering areas from needs specification to data processing, evaluation, and dissemination. Learn about tools like Blaise and Quest Designer, processes like data modeling and workflow organization, and methods for improving data quality and avoiding errors.

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Enhancing Official Statistics with Information Technology: Needs, Design, & Evaluation

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  1. Role of the information technology in official statistics Juraj RIECANDirector, UN-ESCWA Statistics Division

  2. Specify needs Design Build Collect Process Analyse Disseminate Archive Evaluate

  3. Specify needs Design Build From Information needs to the business case Collect Process Analyse Disseminate Archive Evaluate

  4. Specify needs Design Build • Formalize (data model) • Structure (outputs, variables, questionnaires) • Organize (workflow) Collect Process Analyse Disseminate Archive • Blaise(Netherlands) • Survey Processor (Croatia) • Quest.Designer(Australia) Evaluate

  5. Specify needs Design Build • Reusability of components • Testing Collect Process Analyse Disseminate • Blaise(Netherlands) • Quest Developer (Australia) • SIV (Sweden) • Quat(Netherlands) • VVIS (Estonia) Archive Evaluate

  6. Specify needs Design • Basic checks • Improve quality • Avoid non-response • Methods • Questionnaires • OCR • On-line • Remote sensing, etc. Build Collect Process Analyse Disseminate • EHE Sapling (Norway) • GSS (Canada) • MAUSS-R(Italy) • Blaise(Netherlands) • SIV (Sweden) • Quat(Netherlands) • VVIS (Estonia) Archive Evaluate

  7. Specify needs Design • Integrate • Medatata • Coding • Classifying • Calculations, aggregation, ... • Editing & imputations • Avoid systematic errors • Limit imputations Build Collect Process Analyse Disseminate • G-link, C-code, CanCEIS(Canada) • Price Index Processor (UNECE) • Banff, CanCEIS(Canada) • Price System(Australia) • DIGROS(Australia) • Re-GENESEES(Australia) • etc. Archive Evaluate

  8. Specify needs Design • Quality control • Disclosure control • Metadata Build Collect Process • Demetra+ (Eurostat) • G-Series, G-Tab (Canada) • PX-Edit (Sweden) • Stat Control • Mu-Argus, Tau-Argus (Netherlands) • EVER (Italy) • Confid 2 (Canada) • Re-GENESEES (Italy) • etc. Analyse Disseminate Archive Evaluate

  9. Specify needs Design • Communication • Marketing • Management of releases • Management of queries (Call Centre) Build Collect Process Analyse • PC-AXIS (Sweden) • EISIS (ESCWA) • DevInfo(UNICEF) • Business Tool Box (Australia) • Mapresso(Switzerland) • StatFlow, StatWeb (NL) • Jaxi(Spain) • REEM (New Zealand) • etc. Disseminate Archive Evaluate

  10. Specify needs Design • Retention rules • Data with metadata • Confidentiality protection Build Collect Process Analyse Disseminate Archive Evaluate

  11. Specify needs Design Build Lesson learned to the new survey instance Collect Process Analyse Disseminate Archive Evaluate

  12. Way forward – exchange of experience • Statistical information systems & IT tools • Statistical metadata & metainformation systems • Editing & imputation, quality control • Administrative registers and records • Confidentiality protection & disclosure control • GIS and the cartographic representation of data • Relationship with users

  13. Thank you riecan@un.org

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