Information System for Quality Documentation A Short Presentation for the ESTP Course “Data Dissemination and Publication of Statistics” by Sonia Vittozzi (Rome, Istat) on the the Italian National Institute of Statistics website Madrid – March 3-5, 2008

The Information System on Quality (SIQual) is a navigation system based on the SIDI system. SIDI contains metainformation and standard quality indicators on the statistical production processes (primary surveys and secondary studies) carried out by Istat. What is SIQual? General description Madrid – March 3-5, 2008

The SIDI System Short methodological note (Printed Yearbook) On-line data SIQual (on the Internet) SIDI-Top (on the Intranet) Full methodological report for printed publications as an output of the SIDI system Quality declaration Madrid – March 3-5, 2008

The Navigation System On Istat Intranet  Oriented to internal users Equipped with functions that allow to analyse quality taking into account the process characteristics Equipped with functions that allow to compare surveys sharing relevant aspects of the production process Provided with internal monitoring functions (reporting) SIDI-Top: Madrid – March 3-5, 2008

The Navigation System On Istat web-site  for external users (metadata only) Implemented with graphical standards and user-friendly functions Including the subset of statistical process with a given level of documentation Provided with helped searches and selection criteria that never lead to “empty results” Equipped with a data warehouse to perform queries that lead to multidimensional tables SIQual: Madrid – March 3-5, 2008

process content and its operational characteristics (process phases and operations); quality in terms of activities of prevention, monitoring and evaluation of errors (quality actions) quality in terms of documentation on process and product quality. SiQual includes information about: General description Madrid – March 3-5, 2008

The website accessing page English version under testing Note: English version is under testing! Madrid – March 3-5, 2008

This function allows to select a statistical production process carried out by Istat (primary survey or secondary studies) by means of different guided researches. The following researches are available: tematic research (area, sector, topic and phenomenon), observational units research, phases-operations-quality control actions research separately for primary surveys and secondary studies, on-line data research, and publication research. Helped search Research functions Madrid – March 3-5, 2008

This function allows to get a lists of primary surveys and secondary studies sharing some characteristics, that can be selected from the menu Criteria. Some criteria are common to both types of statistical production process, others are esclusive of one of the two. As a consequence, results can be referred to lists of primary surveys and secondary studies, or lists of only primary surveys and lists of only secondary studies. Multidimensional search Research functions Madrid – March 3-5, 2008

All Istat statistical production processes (primary surveys and secondary studies) documented in the system are listed. It is possible to perform simple searches for substring words in the “Process name” field, or to perform advanced searches (for substring words, words or derived words) on the other characteristics of the production process. Some filters to restrict the resulting lists are also available. Complete list Research functions Madrid – March 3-5, 2008

Process description Madrid – March 3-5, 2008

On line general documents classified by area and theme (Methodological documents, Operational documents, Eurostat documents, European Regulations, Questionnaires) Documents about quality of an Istat statistical production process (primary survey or secondary study). Documents Research functions/Process description General documents on quality and documents related to a given survey or a given secondary study are available in the area “Documents”. If the primary survey or the secondary study provides on line data, the link to such data system is available through SIQual. Madrid – March 3-5, 2008

SIDI outputs: Short methodological note (printed Yearbook) On-line data SIQual (on the Internet) SIDI-Top (on the Intranet) Full methodological report for printed publications Documentation about Quality Standard quality declaration Madrid – March 3-5, 2008

Methodological short notes (Statistical Yearbook) Standard quality declaration Other (non standard) documents on quality Different degrees of complexity in the documentation of quality: Documentation about Quality Madrid – March 3-5, 2008

Methodological short notes… Documentation about Quality …in the Italian Statistical Yearbook Madrid – March 3-5, 2008

Developments Integration with the on line catalogue (direct link to the Istat volumes available on the web site) Integration with on line data (direct link to data banks, tables, information systems) English version of the site (in response to Eurostat peer review on Code of Practice – December 2006) Next releases: Madrid – March 3-5, 2008

Information System for Quality Documentation SIQual is beeing implemented by the Istat Service “Audit for the Quality” (PAQ - mail to: Giovanna Brancato and Concetta Pellegrini of the PAQ Service have given their precious aid to this short presentation on the the Italian National Institute of Statistics website Madrid – March 3-5, 2008