The production process of statistical releases in Statistics Finland Study visit of the State Statistical Service of Ukraine September 2015 Markku Huttunen

Production of statistics － Statistics Finland produces about 190 different statistics on 26 topics (>)> － Some statistics are compiled monthly or quarterly, some annually or less frequently － New statistical data are released comprehensively and free-of-charge on the Internet. Roughly 600 releases are made per year in Finnish and Swedish, 440 in English (>)> － Each set of statistics has its own homepage containing the releases, reviews, tables and figures of the statistics as well as information on data collection methodology and data sources, etc. (>)> Markku Huttunen

Dissemination the data of official statistics － Publication –An entity that describes a single set of statistics at a certain reference time in one package (HTML, PDF)HTMLPDF –Statistical release + a more extensive text section + table + figure annexes + standardised quality description = publication –Publications are made and published by statisticians in the statistical units according to common rules and tools － Database –Tables in statistical database (StatFin/PX-Web) for all sets of statisticsStatFin/PX-Web － The role is to release basic data on the official statistics –Publication and database tables are interlinked –Both publications and database tables are archived for later usagepublications Markku Huttunen

Changing over from a printed statistical system of data dissemination to an electronic one － Statistical information has been reported, released and disseminated in the form of printed publications － Statistics Finland’s oldest statistical publication series has been published for over 250 years (>)> － Now the traditional form of publishing has disappeared –That is: tables and the information needed in their interpretation in one volume in a publication series of official statistics –Challenge: how will the statistical data published today only in electronic format be available in 10 or 30 years’ time? –Solution: we must keep published publications and data permanently accessible to users is an essential element of a good information service in time (>)> Markku Huttunen

Roles of an electronic statistical publication and a table database (1) － Tables in databases are different than tables in publications (printed or electronic) –Database tables are not archived as text, tables and graphs published in printed-, HTML- or PDF-publications are － In database tables, data on older observations are always published according to the latest situation － Linking an electronic publication to the related database tables is a problem: data only correspond with each other at the moment of publishing Markku Huttunen

Roles of an electronic statistical publication and table database (2) － Publications and related database tables are archived –All PC-Axis files published in the PX-Web database are saved –Database archive is not yet opened to the public, though － When electronic publications and the related database tables are archived (unchanged) -> two advantages: –1) It makes sense to link the tables published in the database to the publication –2) A comprihensive database archive is created for the tables published in the PX-Web database (>)> Markku Huttunen

Multichannel data dissemination － The channels and formats in dissemination –Publications: HTML, PDFHTMLPDF –Database: PX-Web, PX-filePX-WebPX-file –Map services: Map animations (Statistics eXplorer)Map animations –Notifications: , RSS RSS –Social media: Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, SlideShare, Blog, YouTube, InstagramTwitterLinkedInFacebook SlideShareBlogYouTube Instagram –Information service: LiveZhatLiveZhat － Devices users use –Desktop computer, tablets, mobile phones, phaplets, apps for IOS/Android/Windows Phone, etc... － Different standards –W3C accessibility standards, open data, SDMX data transfer, etc… Markku Huttunen

Strengths and weaknesses of different formats : print / pdf A4 / tablet / mobile Markku Huttunen

XML based dissemination process - XML and PC-Axis － Figure: Harri Lehtinen Markku Huttunen

Further information － Official Statistics of Finland (>)> –Recommendations of the Advisory Board of Official Statistics of Finland (>)> － Common Structure of Statistical Information (CoSSI) –Technical documentation and DTD´S of the XML publication system (>)> –Some papers about the implementatation of the XML-based publication process (>)> － Any questions? Markku Huttunen