1. Data management and the Production of Statistics Geert Bruinooge Deputy Director General Statistics Netherlands
Seminar on Innovations in Official Statistics
20 February 2009
United Nations, New York

2. No data without metadata
Define standard for all statistical concepts
Standard is internationally agreed definition
Define all concepts in use in terms of delta’s to standard

3. Simple Model of Statistical Process
INPUT
THROUGHPUT
OUTPUT

4. The Process Steps INPUT OUTPUT THROUGHPUT EXTRAPOLATE CHECK
FILL THE GAPS
EXTRAPOLATE
CHECK
TRANSFORM

5. The Meta Groups INPUT OUTPUT THROUGHPUT Proces Meta
Administrative meta
Description of
actual and
expected
data
Quality indicators
Objecttype,
Population,
Variable definition
for output
Proces Meta

6. Meta data involved Conceptual meta data:
Input Description of the actual and the expected data
Throughput Description of the data that arise from various process steps to bring input to output
Output (Sub) Population, information content, variable definitions, object types

7. The Data Havens (Steady state)
RAW INPUT
MICROBASE
STATBASE
OUTPUT

8. OVERVIEW of business and information architecture
Meta data service centre
Data collection service centre
Data service centre
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