IT Issues and TRIS Nico Hilbert 13-Jul-07

“Blank fields” filled-in with 0 Frequent mistakes (1/3) Wrong number of fields “Blank fields” filled-in with 0 Different statistical meaning 0 = a value “blank field” value not requested “blank field” published “:” for “not available” “blank field” published “-” for “not applicable” Fields Tonnes, Tkm, Pass, Passkm, Trainkm in wrong unit  there are fields requesting values in 1000’s Values contain “,” or “.” as decimal separator  only full values should be provided 13-Jul-07 Name of the presentation

Country of loading/unloading/embarkation/disembarkation Frequent mistakes (2/3) Wrong country code CS for “SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO” <= 2006 vs ME “MONTENEGRO” >= 2007 RS “(Republic of) SERBIA” >= 2007  No country code change in the middle of a reference year Country of loading/unloading/embarkation/disembarkation  Tables A3, C2 and C4  Overseas country issue  Reporting country (RCOUNT) and Transport identification (TransID) related issue (ingoing, outgoing, transit) 13-Jul-07 Name of the presentation

In “Chapter 11: Structure and data transmission” Frequent mistakes (3/3) In “Chapter 11: Structure and data transmission” Naming of data files Action "N" for new version "R" for replace "A" for Append "P" for Partial "O" for other“ No link with the processing in any statistical domain Convention: 2nd arrival of a dataset will only be imported after the deletion of the related tables in the production database which had been imported based on the 1st arrival 13-Jul-07 Name of the presentation

NUTS dictionary/codelist issues Annex F (1/2) NUTS dictionary/codelist issues Data collection based on NUTS 2 codelist applicable in reference year 2005 (NUTS 2003) NUTS codelist applicable in NewCronos for data dissemination (NUTS 2006) Issues with NUTS codelist in some Member States making the NUTS 2 codelist unusable The following Member States supplied Annex F data: AT, BE, CZ, DE, DK, EE, EL, ES, FI, FR, HU, IE, IT, LT, LU, LV, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, SI, SK, TR 13-Jul-07 Name of the presentation

GENEDI validations ongoing Annex F (2/2) GENEDI validations ongoing Annex F related IT developments waiting to be (acceptance) tested (2nd level validations, database extractions used for dissemination, NewCronos dissemination tables) 13-Jul-07 Name of the presentation

Network Segments (NETSEG) issues Annex G (1/2) Network Segments (NETSEG) issues NETSEG code originally on 6 digits in the database  Extended to 7 digits 7 digits not sufficient for some countries  Extended to 8 digits  Written procedure  NETSEG dictionary creation  Recoding 7 digits codes to 8 digit codes of NETSEG codes in datasets supplied by reporting countries The following Member States supplied Annex G data in the format requested in the Guidelines: AT, BE, CZ, DE, DK, EE, EL, ES, FI, FR, HU, IE, IT, LI, LT, LU, LV, NL, NO, SE, SI, SK, TR 13-Jul-07 Name of the presentation

GENEDI validations not yet started Annex G (2/2) GENEDI validations not yet started Annex G related IT developments waiting to be (acceptance) tested (2nd level validations, database extractions used for dissemination, NewCronos dissemination tables) 13-Jul-07 Name of the presentation

GENEDI and eDAMIS Letter of 4th February 2009 to the members of the RAIL statistics working group on “Data validations with GENEDI by RAIL data providers in the Member States” Some data providers still not GENEDI validate their data before sending GENEDI validations will soon be integrated in eDAMIS (validations enforced) 13-Jul-07 Name of the presentation

RAIL and TRIS (1/2) Reminder: TRIS = TRansport Information System TRIS will integrate all present IT systems of the Transport unit TRIS will have an evolving strong integration with eDAMIS Development is late by 4 months TRIS framework and 1st prototype (Aviation) installed in the Eurostat standard IT test environment 13-Jul-07 Name of the presentation

RAIL and TRIS (2/2) RAIL as 2nd prototype to be installed in the Eurostat secured IT test environment during April followed by acceptance testing RAIL to go in production under TRIS before summer vacations TRIS 1 and the Vision of TRIS (future versions 2 & 3) inline with the future strategy of Eurostat Cooperative validation environment with MSs concept Data warehouse concept 13-Jul-07 Name of the presentation

Reminder: data validation levels 1st level validations = GENEDI (at record level) 2nd level validations = data provided against data in the database (cross table checks and comparisons with previous year/quarter) 3rd level validations = mirror checks 13-Jul-07 Name of the presentation

Re-engineering of the RAIL IT implementation (1/2) 2007: Small corrections/enhancements of the 1st and 2nd level validation rules 2008: Major methodological and IT implementations issues detected 2008: Major corrections/enhancements of the 1st and 2nd level validation rules 2008: Major corrections/enhancements of the database extractions used for dissemination (including ongoing enhancements for Annexes F and G) 13-Jul-07 Name of the presentation

Re-engineering of the RAIL IT implementation (2/2) 2008: Re-engineering of the RAIL IT implementation (launched with the Audit of the RAIL Production database) 2009: Re-engineering and Audit still ongoing (with major corrections/enhancements of the RAIL IT code including the impact of the Audit findings) 2009: RAIL under TRIS 2010: Re-engineering cont’d 13-Jul-07 Name of the presentation

Thank you for your attention 13-Jul-07 Name of the presentation