Statistical Databases: A short review Slide: 1 Demonstration of the Prototype model for ECA Statistical Database Statistical Database Application March 2009 Molla HUNEGNAW Statistician African Centre for Statistics October 2009 The ECA Statistical Data management platform Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)

Statistical Databases: A short review Slide: 2 Contents Background The ECA Statistical Database Objective Platform Components Ongoing developments

Statistical Databases: A short review Slide: 3 Background Database dealing with micro level data management Huge data size Highly sensitive Raw data Database dealing with aggregated data Less sensitive Dissemination Processed data

Statistical Databases: A short review Slide: 4 Background Statistical Databases DevInfo CountryStat World Bank Live Database CRIS The ECA Statistical Database Several organizations have in-house statistical systems …

Statistical Databases: A short review Slide: 5 The ECA Statistical Database Objectives To create a central database system to manage all socio-economic data on African region at ECA To create a corporate platform at ECA for statistical data management To provide easy access to statistical data to users

Statistical Databases: A short review Slide: 6 The ECA Statistical Database Features A web-enabled application A database system that could be customized as a platform Can be configured to stand-alone, LAN, and Internet versions Facilitates textual data management Bilingual

Statistical Databases: A short review Slide: 7 The ECA Statistical Database The Development platform Dot Net Framework 2.0 Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Active Server Pages (ASP.NET) Extensible Markup Language (XML)

Statistical Databases: A short review Slide: 8 The ECA Statistical Database System requirements Server Hardware Software Client Hardware Software “Peopleware” Knowledge and Skill of backend software

Statistical Databases: A short review Slide: 9 The ECA Statistical Database Purposes Data production Data dissemination Report production

Statistical Databases: A short review Slide: 10 Data models Periodicity Annual Quarterly Monthly Time-series data Documents Periodicity Area Partner Value Note Data status …. Title Description Link/File Document type Keywords Category Theme Coverage Area

Statistical Databases: A short review Slide: 11 The ECA Statistical Database Components Data management Manage data Online/Public access End users

Statistical Databases: A short review Slide: 12 Data management Administration Metadata Data manager Data publish

Statistical Databases: A short review Slide: 13 Data management: Administration User management New users Modify user details Delete users Roles Access roles (Compiler, Approver, administrator) Domain roles (Assign countries/Areas, Assign sectors) Reports

Statistical Databases: A short review Slide: 14 Administration: Security model Roles Compiler Approver Administrator Sectors User will be assigned to one or more sectors Security model Users Username Password Areas User will be assigned to one or more areas

Statistical Databases: A short review Slide: 15 Data management: Metadata Secteurs Indicateurs Unités Pays Partenaires Statut de données Fournisseurs de données Apostille Année Glossaire ….

Statistical Databases: A short review Slide: 16 Data management: Data manager Compilation Data entry (grid, batch) Documents and resources Define tables Publish Data Documents and resources Tables

Statistical Databases: A short review Slide: 17 Data collection Data sources Website, Online databases CDs Publications Data collection mission Data providers Countries, Sub-regional, Regional and International organizations

Statistical Databases: A short review Slide: 18 Login

Statistical Databases: A short review Slide: 19 Administration Users, roles, assignments, activity logs, etc

Statistical Databases: A short review Slide: 20 Metadata Metadata definitions

Statistical Databases: A short review Slide: 21 Data manager Data entry, publish…

Statistical Databases: A short review Slide: 22 Data access Browse Search Data presentation formats Download

Statistical Databases: A short review Slide: 23 Data access: Browse Browse data by sector by country by periods Browse documents and resources by type of resources by title of resources

Statistical Databases: A short review Slide: 24 Data access: Search Quick search Basic search Advanced search

Statistical Databases: A short review Slide: 25 Data access: Data formats Tabular Charts Maps

Statistical Databases: A short review Slide: 26 Data access: Downloads Excel CSV XML

Statistical Databases: A short review Slide: 27 Data access opening page

Statistical Databases: A short review Slide: 28 Tabular presentation

Statistical Databases: A short review Slide: 29 Tabular presentation

Statistical Databases: A short review Slide: 30 Chart

Statistical Databases: A short review Slide: 31 Charts

Statistical Databases: A short review Slide: 32 Ongoing developments and plans Moving to “Smart Client” components for data collection and validation Offline data collection Validation and validation More robust data production module Data exchange Web services SDMX, RSS Towards to Programmable web Geo-spatial presentations Analytical components Aggregation, derivation Exploring Web 2.0

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