1. Unified Enterprise Survey
and Metadata
Third International Conference on
Establishment Surveys
Sylvain Boucher
Statistical Metadata Specialist
Standards Division
Montreal
June, 2007

2. UES and Metadata
UES and infrastructure
Integrated Questionnaire and Metadata System (IQMS)

3. UES and Metadata
What
Why
Who

4. Who » Client Processes UES and Metadata IQMS Questionnaire Development
Collection Applications
Data Warehouse
Estimations
Data Browser (USTART)
IQMS
Allocation
Correction tool
Edit and Imputation

5. What » Content UES and Metadata Questionnaire Cells
Building New Questionnaires
Survey Identification Numbers

6. What » Collection UES and Metadata
Collection Application Specifications
Capture Specifications
Edit Specifications
Output Specifications
Managing Collection Edit Changes

7. What » Data Warehouse UES and Metadata
Variables Stored in the Warehouse
Tax Data
Derived
Frame

8. What » Post-Collection
UES and Metadata
What » Post-Collection
Data
Warehouse
Applications
Correction tool
Edit and Imputation
Allocation
Estimations
Data Browser (USTART)

9. What » Managing ‘Traffic’
UES and Metadata
What » Managing ‘Traffic’

10. Why IQMS Was Created? UES and Metadata Collection Applications
Standardize Metadata and Reports
Official Source of Information

11. Why IQMS Evolved UES and Metadata Share Data between Processes
Timeliness of Processing and Metadata Coherence
Less Maintenance

12. Post-Collection (ESD) Content and Data Management (ESD)
Who » Maintenance
Post-Collection (ESD)
PCP Cells
PCP Metadata
Data Management (ESD)
Data
Warehouse
Variables
Processing sources
‘Filters’
Subject Matter
Derived Variables
Collection Edit Specifications
Content and Data Management (ESD)
Questionnaire Survey Identifiers Capture
Cells Specifications

13. UES and Metadata
Who, What, Why
and…
Wow !!!

14. UES and Metadata

15. Additional Notes on IQMS
UES and Metadata
Additional Notes on IQMS
IQMS and Access
Data transfer from IQMS to SAS
New Reference Year Initialisation

16. UES and Metadata
UES metadata…
and tomorrow

17. UES and Metadata
Thank you!