Quality system in a digitalised and modernised statistical system Grete Olsen, Division for Methods, Statistics Norway, gol@ssb.no Aslaug Hurlen Foss, Division for Methods, Statistics Norway, ahf@ssb.no Ane Seierstad, Division for Methods, Statistics Norway, sei@ssb.no

Vision for a digitalised and modernised statistical production system in Statistics Norway

General decisions for establishing quality indicators No work on quality indicators for institutional environment at this stage. Started with collect Quality indicators for Statistical Processes and Statistical output only All statistics or groups of statistics Possible to make quality indicators for each statistic Generic indicators Complex quality indicators in the future Quantity to estimate workload Total illustrated with percent and ratio. Simple and easy to use

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Quality in processes and statistical output Source data Processed data Statistical data Quality indicators for long-term stored data states

Quality Indicators for source data General information about the dataset Name: Description: Identity: Date Created: Source Name: Created by: Data URL: Data state: Source data /Processes data/Statistical data/temporary data Gives us information about the dataset The name Where it comes from Where to find it When it was created

Quality indicators for source data Receiving data and metadata Yes/No Readability Transformed into Statistics Norway format Number of variables with incomplete metadata Report on which variables who are incomplete. Complete metadata

Quality Indicators for source data Content Number of units and variables Overview of data sets The number of values missing in total and distributed by variables Completeness of data sets Number of units with equal identifier component Duplicates

Quality Indicators for source data Controll Number of units stopped, hard control Number of units reported, soft controls. The number of hits in controls per unit. Reports? Controll in collect Number of units where the data comes with comments from respondents or register owners. Comments

Quality Indicators for source data Response and nonresponse Total Total distributed on categories Cumulatively by time: Number, ratio and percent for units and values. Units who reported Sold Should not have been in the sample Unknown address etc. Reason for nonresponse

In the future, generic quality indicators will follow the data in the tower of information

Quality system in a digitalised and modernised statistical system Thank you! Grete Olsen, Division for Methods, Statistics Norway, gol@ssb.no