1. Future Work
Steven Vale
UNECE

2. Contents Context The HLG-BAS: Vision and strategy
The “data deluge”
Competition
The HLG-BAS: Vision and strategy
Future work in data collection

3. What is the Data Deluge?

4. Prediction for 2020

5. In the last 2 years more information was created than in the whole of the rest of human history!

6. Will they provide an alternative to official statistics?
Competition?
Private sector understands the value of data
Google:
Real-time price indices
Public Data Explorer
Facebook, store cards, credit agencies, ...
What if they link their data?
Will they provide an alternative to official statistics?

7. Official Statistics Response
HLG-BAS
High-Level Group for Strategic Developments in Business Architecture in Statistics
Created by the Conference of European Statisticians in 2010
10 heads of national and international statistical organisations

8. HLG-BAS Strategic Vision
Endorsed by the Conference of European Statisticians in June 2011
We have to re-invent our products and processes and adapt to a changed world

9. The challenges are too big for statistical organisations to tackle on their own. We need to work together

10. A strategy for modernization
Transform vision to reality
New sources and products
Streamlined processes
Managing organizational change to support change and collaboration

11. A strategy for modernization
Transform vision to reality
New products
Rationalised processes
“Plug and play” architecture – based on the GSBPM and GSIM
Managing organizational change to support change and collaboration
Conference of European Statisticians, June 2012
Endorsed

12. What does this mean for data collection?
Mixed-source / multi-mode more common
Need to explore new sources
Administrative data
Private-sector data
“Big data”
New methods and tools
More integrated data collection activities
Move away from “1 input = 1 output”

13. Future work Should this seminar be repeated on a regular basis? If so:
How frequently?
What topics should be discussed next time?
Other activities?
Wiki for information and case studies?
Manuals / guidelines?
Develop common tools / methods?
Anything else?

14. Ideas from the Questionnaire
Management of data collection activities
Experiences of centralised data collection
Organisation of mixed-mode collection
Research on mode effects
Border between “Collect” and “Process”
Faster collection for more timely statistics
New sources
Use of “Big Data”