National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics of Mexico Information Exchange Between OECD and Mexico using SDMX Geneva, April 2006

Agenda The new role of INEGI The National System of Statistical and Geographical Information The National Net of Information (RNI) International information exchange Diagnosing the exchange of information between OECD and Mexico Improvements Working plan Conclusions

The New Role of INEGI Mexico is a federal country with a division of powers: Executive, Legislative and Judicial INEGI was a federal government office that belonged to the Executive power Now INEGI is in transit to be an autonomous institution, it means that it does not depend of the Federal Government In its new role, INEGI has to coordinate the production, standardization and disemination of all statistical information of national interest

The National System of Statistical and Geographical Information (SNIEG) Production of statistical and geographical information of national interest Dissemination of information Promotion of knowledge and use of information Preservation of information

The National System of Statistical and Geographical Information (SNIEG) INEGI (UPI) Access to Information UPI User * UPI: Information Producer Unit

The National Net of Information (RNI) A set of processes for the support of: Information exchange Information safeguard Coordination of the SNIEG and its subsystems Dissemination of information through the Public Information System

Information System for the National System of Statistical and Geographical Information (SISNIEG) Set of technological elements that supports the Statistical and Geographical Information Infraestructure

Logical Nets of the SISNIEG User International Organisms INEGI (UPI)UPI Net for the collaboration and information exchange with the Information Producer Units Net for the dissemination of information Collaboration and Information Exchange Systems Systems for dissemination of Information Collaboration and Information Exchange Systems Systems for dissemination of information Collaboration and Information Exchange Systems Systems for dissemination of information Access system for public dissemination of information National Offices of Statistics National Offices of Geographical Information Collaboration and Information Exchange Systems Collaboration and Information Exchange Systems System for the access of information of/to international organisms Net for the Colaboration and Exchange of Information with International Organisms

International information exchange Mexico is collaborating with the Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE) in a program to establish a unique point for the dissemination of statistical information at international level It implies that all Federal Agencies will have a new mechanism for the interchange of statistical and geographical information

Diagnosing the exchange of information between OECD and Mexico Mexico has to report statistical information to OECD Information is being sent by several Federal Agencies to offices of the OECD Only part of the information exchange is correctly identified We need to develop new ways of coordination

Background Works made in Paris Building of an information flow matrix 10 working days 34 interviews Data in the matrix: OECD area Information source in Mexico Communication media OECD and Mexico relationship

Information flow matrix

Information flow México OECD INEGI BANXICO SHCP STPS SEP IMSS SSA CNBV CONACYT SAGARPA Consultor MEI Economic Ooutlook Balance of Payments Prices National Accounts PPP’s Education Database ECMT International Migration ELSA Institutional Investors Bank Profitability DSTI Agricultural Tax Territorial

OECD statistics program

Improvements Creation of a portal for infomation exchange Integration of the statistical information of mexican government agencies Implementation of international standards Use of SDMX Automation of information exchange Application of web services

Information exhange channel OECD INEGI BANXICO SHCP SEP SEMARNATSAGARPA

Supporting architecture Base de Datos del cliente SDMX transformation components DataSet SDMX Client SDMX schemas Web Service Database of the provider Concepts, codes and data Update parameters (Data and metadata) Client database

Early experiences Access to indicators of INEGI’s echonomical database Objective: Information reports of economical and financial indicators from INEGI directly to the database of the Treasure Deparment (SHCP) Strategy: Implementation of a mechanism to access the INEGI database and transform the results using web services technology

Applied architecture SHCP.NET Client Java Client Internet Database server Web Services server INEGI Economic Information Database Firewall Different platforms support

Web service instrumentation Web service functionality: Last actualization of an indicator in an especific time interval All the indicators by actualization date Last actualization for an especific indicator Last actualization of all indicators Client example 238

XML output

Implementation of SDMX SDMX component functionality Querying of current catalogues (measurement unit, periodicity, etc.) Transformation of time series to SDMX format Client Example WSDL 238

WSDL

List of Available Services

Service Contract

Sample of the SDMX client

SDMX output for one indicator

SDMX output for a time series

SDMX code lists (Catalogs)

Collaboration efforts with OECD 1. Portal to integrate the statistical information exchanged with OECD 2. Participation in the SDMX implementation pilot project (with other countries) 3. Transformation of the information in the portal to SDMX format and incorporation of web services technology

International information exchange portal

International coordination through the portal

International data collection

Working plan Integration of information from mexican agencies that has to be sent to the OECD Gradual transformation of data files to SDMX format In the near future we are planning to establish web services to automate information exchange with those agencies

Tasks that remain to be done with international partners and colleagues Strong and efficient communication ties Collaboration groups for the exchange of experiences Joint review of processes to speed up the whole project Joint work to get the goals done

Conclusions Mexico is in the way of implementing SDMX as a tool to improve the internal information interchange The international exchange will be strongly supported by the application of standards like SDMX Our efforts are not limited to technological issues, we need agreements with agencies, working frameworks, standardized catalogs, common definitions among other things We need to create international team to achieve more challenging goals in a relative short time and with few resources

Conclusions SDMX will allow us to fulfill compromises with international agencies But, above all, we pretend to have an effective way to collect, to process and to interchange statistical and geographical information among all the levels of government: federal, state and municipal

Thank you…