Proposing the Model for Croatian Remote Access (RA) Safe Centre for Statistical Microdata

1. Proposing the Model for Croatian Remote Access (RA) Safe Centre for Statistical Microdata Martina Poljičak Central BureauofStatistics poljicakm@gmail.com Ph.D. Hrvoje Stančić, assoc. prof. FacultyofHumanitiesandSocialSciences hrvoje.stancic@zg.t-com.hr

2. Outline • Current state of establishment of RA to statistical microdata in ESS, ongoing projects and available RA services • propose a model for development of RA to statistical microdata in Croatia • integrating the Croatian system for RA in the currently developing ESS’s infrastructure

3. Introduction • National Statistical Offices - lots of microdata • Microdata - researchers’ secondary analyses, empirical studies • growing need for researchers’ easy access to publicly funded data • Contacts with academic institutions – strategic resource for development of official statistics

4. Data throughout statistical surveys Picture 1. National Statistical Office providing public access to macrodata (basic model of NSO)

5. MicrodataConfidentiality • data about individual statistical units • definitions of confidential microdata depend on national legislation, the design of the survey (sample size, included variables) and the means of access (e.g. Remote Access, Safe Centre, Download) • classifying recordsetas confidential

6. Solutions for access to microdata • No access • „on-site” access for „guestresearcher” • Remoteexecutionandadvanced remote execution solutions also called “JobSubmission Systems” (24/7) • ModernRemote Access systems

7. Why RA for researchers? • Benefits for society ... • Cost/benefit • researcher’s needs. • need for Remote Access (RA) systems • high demand for confidential microdata • limited resources inside the NSIs

8. Available RA Centresin Europe • Denmark, France, Slovenia, the Netherlands, Sweden and United Kingdom, offer researchers RA service • Safe Centre - Eurostat in Luxemburg

9. Common RA areas • Data does not leave RDC (outbox) • Accreditation before entering (pass, IP, OTP, biometrics, hardware components), • Sofisticated user account management (Microsoft active directory) • Internet ot private government network with encryption for communication (SSTP, SSl-VPN, Cisco-tunnel, RDP (Microsoft) and ICA Basic encryption (Citrix)) • Surveillance (monitoring sessions, logs, log-on and log-off information etc)

10. ESS projects for RA to Microdata • ESSnet’s DARA project – connecting Safe Centersincountrieswithserversin Luxemburg • Eurostat’s VIP-SICON project – based on Citrix • Data Without Boundaries (CESSDA + ESS) • European Commission, Digital Agenda 2020, • e-certificates

11. Proposalof model for RA in Croatia • CBS, closely working with Eurostat, EU member since July 2013; Croatia is not a member of CESSDA (DwB) • Need for beter cooperation chanels between researchers and official statistics in Croatia • Croatian government has signed Open Government Partnership agreement in August 2011; projects: NIAS – based on OIB, e-Citizen • CARNet, AAI

12. Proposal for model for RA in Croatia Picture 2. NSO providing access to macrodata for public users and anonymised and filtered microdata for researchers’ RA and secondary analysis purposes

13. Conclusion • Connect research community members to safely protected statistical microdata, benefits • Progress in some European countries • Proposal for development of RA Safe Centre for statistical microdata in Croatia • Legal restrictions, privacy and open data issues, complex user management • Integrate Croatian System to ESS’s system for RA to stat- microdata

14. THANK YOU! Proposing the Model for Croatian Remote Access (RA) Safe Centre for Statistical Microdata Martina Poljičak Central BureauofStatistics poljicakm@gmail.com Ph.D. Hrvoje Stančić, assoc. prof. FacultyofHumanitiesandSocialSciences hrvoje.stancic@zg.t-com.hr