1. Standards for Statistical Data Dissemination Marlen Jigitekov Statistical Division, UNECE Issyk Kul, 28 August 2012

2. World is changing quicker than we expect Moore’s law

3. Growth of world Internet population

4. Effects of new Information Age
Demand for information will anticipate your expectations
Statistics cannot stay aside
Statistics should be brought closer to the final user
New ways of statistical data dissemination appear, like data visualization

5. Resources of UNECE Statistical Division
6-7 pers./year for processing statistical data
1 pers./year for IT needs
Constant increase of data volume

6. Increasing work productivity and correct work distribution are two key factors for success!

7. Vicious circle of inefficient work charge
Respondents
Statisticians
IT Department

8. Correct distribution of work charge
Resources of IT department are liberated for improving work productivity
IT department does only software development and provides support for the data processing and dissemination system
IT department delegates to statisticians ALL work related to setup of the data processing and dissemination system
Data collection is delegated to respondents through usage of the web and electronic questionnaires

9. Do not invent the wheel twice
Use existing solutions even if they are paid ones
UNECE decided to adopt PC-Axis in 2003

10. What is PC-Axis? International non-commercial project
Project managed by consortium uniting more than 50 statistical agencies and international organizations
Consortium members make annual contributions for further development of the system
Goal is to develop statistical data dissemination system
Web link to project is at

11. Why have we selected PC-Axis?
Dynamic data output
Non-commercial project
Simple user interface and high speed of data output
Big number of community members, therefore higher stability of the project

12. PC-Axis for SPECA countries
Regional group of Russian-speaking PC-Axis users can be created including
NSO Kyrgyzstan
NSO Latvia
NSO Lithuania
NSO Moldova
NSO Estonia
Regional Statistical Office for Lviv region in Ukraine

13. Example of two-dimensional cube
Год
Страна
2000
2001
2002
2003
ААА
БББ
ВВВ
35 789
36 789
37 789
38 789

14. Multidimensional cubes became standard for data dissemination!
Возраст
Год
Страна

15. Selecting data

16. Viewing cube in tabular format

17. Changing output layout for your cube

18. Graphs

19. Maps

20. Quick statistics

21. UNECE countries in maps

22. Google Public Data

23. Google Public Data

24. Conclusion You can find our statistical database at
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