Role of the information technology in official statistics

Juraj RIECANDirector, UN-ESCWA Statistics Division

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From Information needsto the

business case

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• Formalize (data model)• Structure (outputs, variables, questionnaires)

• Organize (workflow)

• Blaise (Netherlands)• Survey Processor (Croatia)• Quest.Designer (Australia)

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• Reusability of components• Testing

• Blaise (Netherlands)• Quest Developer (Australia)• SIV (Sweden)• Quat (Netherlands)• VVIS (Estonia)

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• Basic checks• Improve quality• Avoid non-response

• Methods• Questionnaires• OCR• On-line• Remote sensing, etc.

• EHE Sapling (Norway)• GSS (Canada)• MAUSS-R (Italy)• Blaise (Netherlands)• SIV (Sweden)• Quat (Netherlands)• VVIS (Estonia)

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• Integrate• Medatata

• Coding• Classifying• Calculations, aggregation, ...

• Editing & imputations• Avoid systematic errors• Limit imputations

• G-link, C-code, CanCEIS (Canada)• Price Index Processor (UNECE)• Banff, CanCEIS (Canada)• Price System (Australia)• DIGROS (Australia)• Re-GENESEES (Australia)• etc.

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• Quality control• Disclosure control• Metadata

• 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.

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• Communication• Marketing• Management of releases• Management of queries

(Call Centre)

• PC-AXIS (Sweden)• EISIS (ESCWA)• DevInfo (UNICEF)• Business Tool Box (Australia)• Mapresso (Switzerland)• StatFlow, StatWeb (NL)• Jaxi (Spain)• REEM (New Zealand)• etc.

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• Retention rules• Data with metadata• Confidentiality protection

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Lesson learned to the new survey instance

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

Thank youriecan@un.org