1. IT Issues and TRIS
Nico Hilbert
13-Jul-07

2. “Blank fields” filled-in with 0
Frequent mistakes (1/3)
Wrong number of fields
“Blank fields” filled-in with 0
Different statistical meaning
0 = a value
“blank field” value not requested
“blank field” published “:” for “not available”
“blank field” published “-” for “not applicable”
Fields Tonnes, Tkm, Pass, Passkm, Trainkm in wrong unit
 there are fields requesting values in 1000’s
Values contain “,” or “.” as decimal separator
 only full values should be provided
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3. Country of loading/unloading/embarkation/disembarkation
Frequent mistakes (2/3)
Wrong country code
CS for “SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO” <= 2006 vs
ME “MONTENEGRO” >= 2007
RS “(Republic of) SERBIA” >= 2007
 No country code change in the middle of a reference year
Country of loading/unloading/embarkation/disembarkation
 Tables A3, C2 and C4
 Overseas country issue
 Reporting country (RCOUNT) and Transport
identification (TransID) related issue
(ingoing, outgoing, transit)
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4. In “Chapter 11: Structure and data transmission”
Frequent mistakes (3/3)
In “Chapter 11: Structure and data transmission”
Naming of data files
Action "N" for new version
"R" for replace
"A" for Append
"P" for Partial
"O" for other“
No link with the processing in any statistical
domain
Convention: 2nd arrival of a dataset will only be
imported after the deletion of the related
tables in the production database which had
been imported based on the 1st arrival
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5. NUTS dictionary/codelist issues
Annex F (1/2)
NUTS dictionary/codelist issues
Data collection based on NUTS 2 codelist applicable in reference year 2005 (NUTS 2003)
NUTS codelist applicable in NewCronos for data dissemination (NUTS 2006)
Issues with NUTS codelist in some Member States making the NUTS 2 codelist unusable
The following Member States supplied Annex F data:
AT, BE, CZ, DE, DK, EE, EL, ES, FI, FR, HU, IE,
IT, LT, LU, LV, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, SI, SK, TR
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6. GENEDI validations ongoing
Annex F (2/2)
GENEDI validations ongoing
Annex F related IT developments waiting to be (acceptance) tested (2nd level validations, database extractions used for dissemination, NewCronos dissemination tables)
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7. Network Segments (NETSEG) issues
Annex G (1/2)
Network Segments (NETSEG) issues
NETSEG code originally on 6 digits in the database
 Extended to 7 digits
7 digits not sufficient for some countries
 Extended to 8 digits
 Written procedure
 NETSEG dictionary creation
 Recoding 7 digits codes to 8 digit codes of NETSEG codes in
datasets supplied by reporting countries
The following Member States supplied Annex G data in the format requested in the Guidelines:
AT, BE, CZ, DE, DK, EE, EL, ES, FI, FR, HU, IE, IT, LI, LT, LU, LV,
NL, NO, SE, SI, SK, TR
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8. GENEDI validations not yet started
Annex G (2/2)
GENEDI validations not yet started
Annex G related IT developments waiting to be (acceptance) tested (2nd level validations, database extractions used for dissemination, NewCronos dissemination tables)
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9. GENEDI and eDAMIS
Letter of 4th February 2009 to the members of the RAIL statistics working group on “Data validations with GENEDI by RAIL data providers in the Member States”
Some data providers still not GENEDI validate their data before sending
GENEDI validations will soon be integrated in eDAMIS (validations enforced)
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10. RAIL and TRIS (1/2) Reminder: TRIS = TRansport Information System
TRIS will integrate all present IT systems of the Transport unit
TRIS will have an evolving strong integration with eDAMIS
Development is late by 4 months
TRIS framework and 1st prototype (Aviation) installed in the Eurostat standard IT test environment
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11. RAIL and TRIS (2/2)
RAIL as 2nd prototype to be installed in the Eurostat secured IT test environment during April followed by acceptance testing
RAIL to go in production under TRIS before summer vacations
TRIS 1 and the Vision of TRIS (future versions 2 & 3) inline with the future strategy of Eurostat
Cooperative validation environment with MSs concept
Data warehouse concept
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12. Reminder: data validation levels
1st level validations = GENEDI (at record level)
2nd level validations = data provided against data in the database (cross table checks and comparisons with previous year/quarter)
3rd level validations = mirror checks
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13. Re-engineering of the RAIL IT implementation (1/2)
2007: Small corrections/enhancements of the 1st and
2nd level validation rules
2008: Major methodological and IT implementations issues detected
2008: Major corrections/enhancements of the 1st and nd level validation rules
2008: Major corrections/enhancements of the database extractions used for dissemination (including ongoing enhancements for Annexes F and G)
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14. Re-engineering of the RAIL IT implementation (2/2)
2008: Re-engineering of the RAIL IT implementation (launched with the Audit of the RAIL Production database)
2009: Re-engineering and Audit still ongoing (with major corrections/enhancements of the RAIL IT code including the impact of the Audit findings)
2009: RAIL under TRIS
2010: Re-engineering cont’d
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15. Thank you for your attention
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