1. Euro-indicators Working Group
Luxembourg, 4th & 5th December 2008
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2. Annual Assessment and ongoing changes By Agnieszka Politewicz
Item 4.1 of the Agenda
Annual Assessment and ongoing changes
By Agnieszka Politewicz
Doc 230/08
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3. Introduction Scope of European and National short term indicator
Euro-IND (SPC mandate 1999)
Prompt availability (real-time updated)
Good coverage and reliability
Long and harmonized time series (spanning over 15 years)
Fully documented
Easy accessibility
and Key Short Term Indicators
Friendly presentation: TGM, tables, graphs, and synthetic meta-information
html format (generally last 12 or 4 values) or downloadable tables
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4. Introduction Regular quality checks (monthly) since 2001 by Unit D1
Main target of quality checks :
Help producers, Convince users
Producers: support for domain managers to determine, attain and maintain quality standards
Users: tool following evolution and usefulness of Euro-IND supply
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5. Introduction Eurostat’s quality based on ISO 8402 norm
Quality is the totality of features and characteristics of a product or service that bear on its ability to satisfy stated or implied needs
Quality is monthly monitored in line with the European Statistical Code of Practice – Principle 4
State of Affairs (SOA)
Monitoring Report (MR)
Reports disseminated in PDF format through the Euro-indicators/PEEIs special topic of Eurostat website
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6. Scheme for quality assessment
Quality Indicators for SOA
Relevance 3. Timeliness
Extractions - Freshness
Hits
2. Completeness 4. Accuracy
Coverage - Missing Values
Geographical level - Strange Values
Distribution by domain
Frequency of series Clarity
Length of series - Metadata availability
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7. Relevance How often the database is consulted is a measure
of relevance for users and their needs
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8. Number of monthly extractions per day form Euro-IND and Shorties
Relevance
Number of monthly extractions per day
form Euro-IND and Shorties
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9. Completeness
The domains included in the database should reflect needs and priorities of users
Five key elements have been chosen:
Coverage → # of series
Geographical level → # of countries and aggregates
Distribution by domain → % in domains
Frequency of series → % of Y/Q/M series
Length of series → % length classes
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10. Completeness Coverage of the Euro-IND database
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11. Completeness 46 Geographical entities in October 2008:
8 European aggregates
27 MS
9 Other countries
BLEU and EURONEXT
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12. Completeness Distribution by domain in the Euro-IND database
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13. Frequency of the Euro-IND active series
Completeness
Frequency of the Euro-IND active series
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14. Completeness Length of the series in the Euro-IND database
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15. Timeliness of the Euro-IND series
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16. Accuracy Based on “missing values”
Series with missing values (October 2008):
1.3% of the total available series
and “strange values”
Series with strange values (October 2008): % %
over % of total available series
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17. Clarity (more on that in Doc 232-a/08)
Clarity is assimilated to availability of metadata
The majority of metadata base pages of the Euro-IND database were updated in 2008
(more on that in Doc 232-a/08)
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18. Clarity
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19. The Working Group is invited to:
give indications on the improvement of quality measures used to assess the Euro-IND database and Short Term Indicators
report on the quality checks currently made in their short-term statistics domains
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20. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
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