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StatBank MoldovaStatBank Moldova- The newest member of the PC-Axis Family- The newest member of the PC-Axis Family

Mr. Per Olav Løvbak

Head of Division, Statistics Norway

International seminar on dissemination

Chisinau, Moldova, May 27th 2010

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The PC-Axis Family is...

• a windows based software family for efficient and user friendly presentation of statistics

• a network of PC-Axis members

• a world wide cooperation on dissemination of Statistics

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Americas Brasil Bolivia Guatemala

Africa Algeria Angola Benin Burkina FasoCameroon Cap Verde Mocambique NamibiaSouth Africa Tanzania Uganda Cote d’IvoireECOWAS Ethiopia EMOAS Kenya Senegal Mali Togo GhanaMalawi Nigera Rwanda SenegalZambia

Asia Philippines Taiwan(R.O.C.) BhutanIraqNew Zealand

PC-Axis around the worldEurope AlbaniaBasque Croatia Denmark Estonia FAOFaroe Islands Finland Åland Greenland Iceland Ireland Latvia Lithuania LuxembourgMacedonia F.Y.R. Norway Slovakia SloveniaSpain SwitzerlandUNECE Sweden

And today… Moldova !!

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The PC-Axis Family

• … covers the Statistical Office’ responsibility to – make statistics available on the web– make statistics visible in dynamic tables, diagrams and maps– make possible restructuring the content to the users needs– convert content to different file formats for download

• … is not – a fancy graphics tool– a GIS tool– an advanced statistical analysis tool

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Most prominent family members…

• PX-Web – Statistical Databank on web

• PC-Axis – Program for maniputating tables

• PX-Edit – Program for building PC-Axis files

• For users, all programs are free of charge!

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PC-Axis future

• New organization– Nordic project to update the organization of the network– Based on community source model (semi-open software)

• New version– Development of new .net version of PC-Axis and PX-Web– First release planned for December 2010.

• SDMX integration– SDMX is an joint international initiative to create standards for exchange of

statistical information– ESSnet project for integrating PC-Axis with SDMX– Goal: How to create SDMX-files from PC-Axis files and databases– Will make international reporting and exchange with other tools more

effective