National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics of Mexico Website of Mexico for Information Exchange With OECD Towards Implementation of SDMX Washington, D. C. January 9 -11, 2007

Agenda The Role of INEGI The National System of Statistical and Geographical Information (SNIEG: “Sistema Nacional de Información Estadística y Geográfica) The National Network of Information (RNI: “Red Nacional de Información) Implementation of SDMX at INEGI The Website of Mexico for Information Exchange With OECD Conclusions

The Role of INEGI INEGI is a federal office that coordinates the production, standardization and dissemination of all statistical and geographical information of national interest

The National System of Statistical and Geographical Information It’s defined as a set of Units that are organized through the subsystems, coordinated by the INEGI and articulated by means of the National Network of Information in order to produce and to spread the information of national importance

The National Network of Information Set of interchange processes and safeguard of information to support on the one hand the activities of the National System of Statistical and Geographic Information and its subsystems and by the another one the benefit of the Public Service of Information to all the society.

Logical Architecture of the RNI 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 Collaboration and Exchange of Information with International Organisms

Implementation of SDMX at INEGI Exchange of economical information with Bank of Mexico and SHCP (Federal Treasure Department) Web service for querying of information in SDMX from the indicators database (Statistical Data Warehouse) Website for statistical information exchange with OECD

Exchange of Information With Bank of Mexico and SHCP SHCP BANK OF MEXICO.NET Client Java Client Internet Database server Web Services server INEGI Firewall Different platforms support Bank of Economical Indicators (BIE)

Web Service for Querying of Information from the Data Warehouse User Intranet SDMX file Indicators IDs Java Client Oracle database server Web Services server OAS Java DWH Indicators Database (Data and Metadata) Web Service Makes the query of the time series on SDMX format Web Application Selection of indicators Receives an XML file to use it as needed

The Website of Mexico for Information Exchange With OECD The Website is part of the SISNIEG (The Information System of the National System of Statistical and Geographical Information) It’s a mean of coordination among Mexican statistical information production units

Website Interface

Reception of Information

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

Achievements The areas of statistical information production from INEGI have been capacitated on basic SDMX issues 23 offices have already a login and a password to deposit information About 60 persons from 30 offices have been trained on SDMX issues Conceptual aspects Transformation of indicators to SDMX ML compact model We plan to start putting official information on the site this year

Factors That Are Helping Us With the Task Collaboration with the Mexican Foreign Relations Federal Department We are offering an easy way to get in the project (we don’t expect too much at the beginning) Interest of the technical areas from INEGI and from the federal departments Perceived Usefulness A spirit of team working Institutional commitment

Conclusions Initial steps when working with SDMX must be easy to follow by potential adopters SDMX-ML Compact model is helpful at the beginning because it has a short and defined set of data a metadata A successful implementation of SDMX standards must consider internal and external processes To extend the use of SDMX is necessary to have initial understanding of it’s basis and at least some short implementations To obtain the full potential of the standard it’s necessary to make decisions about contents to define the Data Structure Definitions. Those decisions are made by information producers and supported by people from IT We can get commitment from the adopters only if we can prove that this standard is useful for them

Contact information: Juan Muñoz López