Dissemination Statline tool and organisation André de Boer

Contents Statline architecture General principles Paper publications Information services Website Statline

Cube Manager StatLine Presentation layer Storage Logic Internet Server Cristal Manager Cube Cristal StatWeb 3.1 Architecture Internet Browser Internet

General principles Website is the primary instrument of dissemination All information on the website is for free All information free for everyone at the same time All regularly published information in StatLine

Paper publications Pressreleases: –250 releases a year –Manuscript by the statistical sector, editors at the output department –Support of the press by our press office Paper publications: –Tendency: More the story behind the figures, less tables –Less on paper, more on the internet

Information services Centralised Strategy: directing to website Pay Phone ( 0,50 EUR/Min) Requests > 5 minutes have to be paid Use of Webforms and management system

Website Maintained at the output department Primary instrument of dissemination Statistical part has a thematic structure (theme pages) Different methods of accessing the right data

StatLine StatLine as seen by the user Components of a StatLine matrix StatLine and Internal organisation

StatLine as seen by the user (1) Search facility: – Search phrase gives hit list of tables (example)example Thematic index – User can scroll through a map tree of publications – After selecting a publication, user can select data (example)example

StatLine as seen by the user (2) After selection, the user can: – Modify the selection – Change columns with rows, nesting – Print the table – Save the table in different formats (html, xls, spss, txt) – Create a hyperlink to the StatLine database Example Example

StatLine as seen by the user (3) “Size” of StatLine – Publications1 300 – Cells (?) – GB 2.3 (?) – Biggest matrix cellsBiggest matrix – Sparsest matrix0.05 % cells not emptySparsest matrix – Update rate5-15 publications/day

Components StatLine matrix (1) Structure: One dimension with at least two subjects ordered in hierarchical way 1-6 dimensions with classification variables (dimension time should come last) Items of a classification can be grouped in different ways (example time dimension)example

Components StatLine matrix (2) Meta information: General description of the statistics (example)example For each subject: – Name – Unit – Explanation (optional) – Keyword (optional) For each classification – Explanation (optional) – Keyword (optional)

StatLine and (1) Free (also without identification) Updated every night (future: every day at 9.30) Link on homepage to list of updates in previous weekupdates Different ways of accessing StatLine (next page)

StatLine and (2) Access to StatLine on the Web: “Normal” way (search and thematic index) Main indicators Key figures Web articles Theme pages (e.g. Labour Market)Theme pages Classifications All with the use of active hyperlinks to StatLine

Internal organisation (1) Executive Board Division of Business Statistics Division of Social and Spatial Statistics Division of Macro-economic Statistics and Dissemination Division of Technology and Facilities Dep. 1 Dep. 3 Dep. 4 Dep. 5 Dep. 6 Dep. 2 Dep. 1 Dep. 3 Dep. 4 Dep. 2 Dep. 5 Dep. 1 Dep. 3 Dep. 4 Dep. 2 Publication and Communications Methods and Informatics Dep. 3 Dep. 4 Dep. 5 Dep. 6 ICT

Internal organisation (2) The statistical departments are responsible for: – Design of matrices (together with the output department) – Producing data files – Describing the meta data – Building and updating matrices – Quality of the data – Confidentiality of the data

Internal organisation (3) The output department is responsible for: – Design of matrices (together with the statistical departments) – Updating matrices in the StatLine dome – Editorial rules – Keywords – Archive of matrices – Management information – Consistency of presentation