data warehouse labour market and social protection CBSS Chris Brijs Statistician Crossroads Bank for Social Security Sint-Pieterssteenweg 375 B-1040 Brussels Website: Crossroads Bank for Social Security

2 15/09/2010 CBSS Crossroads Bank for Social Security n parapublic institution n the mission of the CBSS is to be the motor of e-government in the social sector, i.e. -to stimulate and to support the actors in the Belgian social sector to grant more effective and efficient services with a minimum of administrative formalities and costs for all the involved; based on a common and concerted vision, the actors in the Belgian social sector benefit from the new technologies to improve and re-organize radically their mutual relationships and processes; -to promote the information security and the privacy protection by the actors in the Belgian social sector so that all the involved institutions and people can have justified confidence in the system; -to deliver integrated statistical information to the politicians and the researchers in order to support the social policy. =>

3 Crossroads Bank for Social Security 15/09/2010 CBSS Need of a data warehouse n operational databases: inadequate tool for the purpose of statistics and scientific research -not efficient -risky -expensive n advantages of a data warehouse -is provided with the adequate hardware and software for its objectives e.g. calculating statistics linking data of different sources taking samples encrypting data -less expensive

4 Crossroads Bank for Social Security 15/09/2010 CBSS Data sources n Crossroads Bank for Social Security n Federal Public Service Social Security n Health Insurance Funds n National Office for Social Security n National Office for Social Security for Provincial and Local Governments n National Institute for Social Security of the Self- employed n National Employment Office n National Institute for Health Insurance n National Office for Child Allowances for Workers n National Register n National Fund for Industrial Accidents n National Fund for Occupational Diseases

5 Crossroads Bank for Social Security 15/09/2010 CBSS Data sources n National Office for Old Age Pensions n Pension Service for the Public Sector n Regional Employment Services (VDAB/FOREM/Actiris/ADG) n Public Service for Social Integration n CIMIRe/SIGEDIS n Self-defined notions

6 Crossroads Bank for Social Security 15/09/2010 CBSS Contents n labour market information -wages -employer -social security contributions -labour regime (full time / part time) -unemployment -… n information about old age pensions -benefits/fees -kind of pension -starting date -…

7 Crossroads Bank for Social Security 15/09/2010 CBSS Contents n information about sickness/invalidity/incapacity for work/disability -benefits/fees -cause : illness, accident at work, occupational disease -starting date and (potential) final date -… n information about child allowances n information about poverty n personal data -birth date -gender -nationality -…

8 Crossroads Bank for Social Security 15/09/2010 CBSS Management n Crossroads Bank for Social Security -daily coordination and management coordination between data providers and users guaranteeing the availibility of the data daily maintenance treatment of demands for data -permanent technical support: SmalS -permanent scientific support: Steunpunt Werk en Sociale Economie (KU Leuven) Centrum voor Sociologisch Onderzoek (KU Leuven) Centre METICES (ULB)

9 Crossroads Bank for Social Security 15/09/2010 CBSS Management n user group -composed of representatives of research institutions representatives of data providers -scientific discussions and proposals -matching between available data and needs n council of data providers -important principle: data providers keep the ownership of their own data -approval of the proposals made by the user group

10 Crossroads Bank for Social Security 15/09/2010 CBSS Use of the data warehouse n general anonymous statistics -cd-rom / website available for the public -discussed in user group -approved by the Privacy Commission n ad hoc demands for data -only public and scientific organisations can introduce a demand -procedure approval of the data providers approval of the Privacy Commission (check on respect of the purpose limitation principle and the proportionality principle) approval of the Board of Directors of the Crossroads Bank for Social Security

11 Crossroads Bank for Social Security 15/09/2010 CBSS Documentation n in the past : u ser guide + annexes -list of variables -codebook -description of the variable « (nomenclature of) the socioeconomic position » -description of the general anonymous statistics -summary of the data available in the data warehouse => this documentation was too limited and inadequate : need of a project to reform this documentation

12 Crossroads Bank for Social Security 15/09/2010 CBSS Documentation project n 2004 : submission of a project to Belgian Science Policy, in association with Federal Public Service Social Security -Project for 4 years ( ) -Research teams : Steunpunt Werk en Sociale Economie, Centrum voor Sociologisch Onderzoek, Centre METICES n thorough screening and documenting of the data warehouse : the sources, the structure, the variables, the history, … n documentation available on the website of the CBSS -first : Word-documents that can be downloaded -later : consultable via a Content Management System (CMS)

13 Crossroads Bank for Social Security 15/09/2010 CBSS Results first documentation project n more exhaustive user guide n profound description of the sources, the variables and their possible values (codes) n documentation is better structured => Although important improvement has been made, this is not the endpoint. A lot of important aspects are not explained in the current documentation.

14 Crossroads Bank for Social Security 15/09/2010 CBSS New Documentation Project n 2008 : submission of a new documentation project to Belgian Science Policy, again in association with Federal Public Service Social Security -Project for 4 years ( ) -Research teams : Steunpunt Werk en Sociale Economie, Centrum voor Sociologisch Onderzoek, Centre METICES

15 Crossroads Bank for Social Security 15/09/2010 CBSS CMS datawarehouse n tool : HIPPO or DRUPAL -open source application n terms of access -read-access for the public -write-access for the representatives of the public institutions member of the council of data providers the research teams => team of editors -possibility to allow guest editors (i.e. academic experts) n workflow -change of a part of the documentation + debate -translation -publication n Commissioning : 2011

16 Crossroads Bank for Social Security 15/09/2010 CBSS More info n website Crossroads Bank for Social Security um/statistics/statistics_01.html um/statistics/statistics_01.html