The role of the standards in the modernisation of official statistics. Aija Žīgure, President Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia

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1 The role of the standards in the modernisation of official statistics Aija Žīgure, President Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia

2 Standardisation an important aspect of the European Statistical System (ESS) Statistical output standards in many areas Interoperability Generic approach Widely used

3 Pre-conditions-policy context Changing environment personnel, resources, data sources Increased industrialisation of statistics Integrated production system Changing work environment Administrative issues Resources (human, finance)

4 Interoperability What needs to be done Interface specifications Clear definitions and vocabulary for standardisation concepts Inventory of standards Life cycle management continuity and timeliness structured approach The architectural framework Impact assessment Environment and communication

5 SDMX standardised environment for data exchange (1) SDMX - a good example of: Technical standard Overall approach Good integration possibilities In accordance with the latest ideas, improvements Harmonised way of data exchange with both European and international organisations

6 SDMX standardised environment for data exchange (2) Pre-conditions for better use: If a simple and clear user interface for humans be used Environment is widely used (in all statistical domains) Not widely used at CSB of Latvia

7 Experience of CSB of Latvia (1) Centralized metadata driven statistical data management system development and usage in production since 2002: Standardized data collection, entry, validation and aggregation environment for business and social statistics domains; Metadata driven which gives flexibility for introducing any survey in the system. Quality standards in use since 2011 Moving towards ISO standard Standardization is an ongoing process

8 Good governance practice Improving the effectiveness of the organisation e-document storage and circulation system Accounting of working time and financial resources at various levels Product, process, division/department, position, expert Flexible tools for analysis of product costs IT an important (crucial?) component in reaching the goal Experience of CSB of Latvia (2)

9 Standardization approach Enabler = information technology Historically existing environment Analysis, typical processes identification Common information system development Result:common environment, standardized approach Movement towards more process oriented and standardized organization, the CSB approach: existing situation analysis; existing processes analysis, common processes identification among different subject matter units; information system architecture, which is based on common processes, establishment; processes and standards documentation. Experience of CSB of Latvia (3)

10 Systemic approach - Process oriented changes Processes organization, historical Processes organization, nowadays Experience of CSB of Latvia (4)

11 Future movement with standardization via information systems standardized data collection environment done standardized data analysis environment via OLAP technologies and data cubes generation work in progress standardized macroeconomic data analysis and production bright future Experience of CSB of Latvia (5)

12 Standard as a mean to implement solution or solution as a driving force for standardization?