Data management and the Production of Statistics Geert Bruinooge Deputy Director General Statistics Netherlands Seminar on Innovations in Official Statistics 20 February 2009 United Nations, New York

No data without metadata Define standard for all statistical concepts Standard is internationally agreed definition Define all concepts in use in terms of delta’s to standard

Simple Model of Statistical Process INPUT THROUGHPUT OUTPUT

The Process Steps INPUT OUTPUT THROUGHPUT EXTRAPOLATE CHECK FILL THE GAPS EXTRAPOLATE CHECK TRANSFORM

The Meta Groups INPUT OUTPUT THROUGHPUT Proces Meta Administrative meta Description of actual and expected data Quality indicators Objecttype, Population, Variable definition for output Proces Meta

Meta data involved Conceptual meta data: Input Description of the actual and the expected data Throughput Description of the data that arise from various process steps to bring input to output Output (Sub) Population, information content, variable definitions, object types

The Data Havens (Steady state) RAW INPUT MICROBASE STATBASE OUTPUT

OVERVIEW of business and information architecture Meta data service centre Data collection service centre Data service centre APPENDIX 1/3