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Improving cooperation and quality in deliveries from Primary statistics (PS) to National Accounts (NA) Roger Pettersson Statistics Sweden. Key words. NA= National Accounts PS= Primary statistics RI= Right Input = Team at NA SLA= Service Level Agreements Quality Evaluation form.
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Improving cooperation and quality in deliveries from Primary statistics (PS) to National Accounts (NA) Roger Pettersson Statistics Sweden
Key words • NA= National Accounts • PS= Primary statistics • RI= Right Input = Team at NA • SLA= Service Level Agreements • Quality Evaluation form
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Aim • Reliable and user-oriented NA-statistics • Quality declarations of PS for NA’s needs • Improvements if shortcomings • Investigations if something is unclear • Adapted structure of the delivered data • Information describing the delivered data This should be regulated in SLA’s between NA and PS
Right Input • Task: Develop and preserve methods and tools for communication and cooperation between NA and PS • Give guiding principles for the work • Supporting those involved • Storing documents • Monitoring the process • Follow up and evaluation meetings • Suggesting products and timetables
Process • A series of activities that work up a product • Repeated several times in a similar way. • A distinctly defined start and end • Always has an internal or external customer
Statistics production process Evaluate and feedback 8 Specify needs 1 Design and plan 2 Build and test 3 Collect 4 Process 5 Analyse 6 Disseminate and communicate 7 Support and infrastructure
Mission statement • Data in an adapted structure to NA • Agreed quality in all quality dimensions • Content and quality shall be sufficient for • users’ application of the NA statistics • Discrepancies between NA and PS figures • regardingcomparability and coherence are • explained upon publication • Well developed cooperation • NA and PS Heads must give priority to the work
Support to the SLAprocess • Guidelines for the SLAwork • Quality Evaluation Form • Checklist for SLAmeetings(quality meetings) • Yearly document of planned deliveries • Form for SLA • Checklist for follow-up meetings • Mailbox *Right Input
Components in the Quality evaluation form 1 • Information that identifies the source and the part(s) of NAcalculation • 16 components about • Population and sampling • Sampling uncertainty • Measurement error and problems • Estimation and processing errors • Summary evaluation of the components above • Documentation
Components in the Quality evaluation form 2 • Revision policy • Knowledge exchange • Preserving Secrecy - publishing level • Timeliness • Quarterly/Yearly data • Previous SLA • Quality change made over time • Cooperation between different • Primary statistics • Report on differences between • Primary statistics and NA
Quality information – deliveries from PS to NA 1 • General information (every year) • Information about population • Changed content of variables, changed definitions, time series break? • Sampling and sample handling
Quality information – deliveries from PS to NA 2 • Information at deliveries • General information (at deliveries) • Break in time series • Changes in samples • Non-response • Random errors • Measurement problems • Estimates • Explanation of big changes • Description of tables
Evaluation of the job • NA and PS have follow-up meetings about content in the SLA and the process • RI and those at NAdepartmentresponsible for the SLA have a yearly follow-up meeting about the process • RI and the heads for NAunitshave follow-up meetings • The result of the job is presented for the internal council for NA