ILO Department of Statistics Edgardo Greising

 Why? ◦ High maintenance costs ◦ Low coverage ◦ Problems of comparability between data  What? ◦ Applications ◦ Procedures  Objectives ◦ Better response rate ◦ Reduced delay in disseminating ◦ More indicators covering the DW agenda ◦ Improve overall data quality

 The old system ◦ Process overview ◦ IT considerations  The new approach ◦ Process overview ◦ IT considerations  Conclusions

 Manual consistency  No procedure to re-contact non- responding countries  Thousands of footnotes, dozens of them meaning exactly the same  “Source & Methods” metadata collected as text documents  Veracity relayed on huge workload  Declining response rate  Delayed publication release  High direct costs  Overburden to countries

 Data stored in a hierarchical database  Time consuming «per sheet» upload procedure  Unfriendly consistency checking program turned useless  Data with errors not marked, could be published  No solution for “false positives”  Command line editor  Disconnected dissemination tools  Manual workflow management  High maintenance costs

 Country-centric approach  Broader interaction with countries ◦ Off-line x-Questionnaire (Excel) ◦ e-Questionnaire ◦ EDI (SDMX)  Controlled vocabulary footnotes system  Error-free data passed to the dissemination database  New ILOSTAT website integrated to Department of Statistics’ and ILO’s IKMG

 Modular design following GSBPM  Oracle RDBMS and development tools  Automated procedure for xQ and SDMX uploading with structural consistency  E-Questionnaire online data collection  Single set of metadata  Single interactive consistency procedure regardless of data collection means  «False positives» handling thru allowance issuing  Full screen data editor  Dynamic content dissemination website  Data workflow management module

8 (country + user) Qtable (country + indic + survey)

LABORSTA data Content & Documents Current website services delivery Independent user interfaces Colaboration WCMS 10g SAS Plone LABORSTA backoffice

Oracle WebCenter Portal Content & Documents (Dynamic) ILOSTAT data Backoffice Applications WCMS 11g WCMS 10g Oracle DBMS OBI EE WebCenter Spaces APEX SAS Oracle DBMS Colaboration & Social Network New website services delivery Unified user interface

 Increased coverage  Improved opportunity  Improved quality  Reduced overburden  Standards based  General purpose  Reduced TCO

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