1. October, 2006 How to access OECD statistical information - an interactive workshop for delegations lars.thygesen@oecd.org

2. October, 2006 2 Contents What are the delegations' needs for statistics? Dissemination policy and the Statistical Information System Finding statistics Metadata : the key to understanding How to make visual material from OECD.Stat Use of other sources: UN, World Bank, national sources Future

3. October, 2006 3 What are the delegations' needs for statistics?

4. October, 2006 4 Examples of needs ? Find one indicator for all OECD countries –e.g. GDP per capita Make a PowerPoint graph? Use it for a paper? Find a distribution for one or more countries –e.g. GDP by activity for US.... –e.g. investment in knowledge

5. October, 2006 5 Examples: Austria FDI Commodity trade Trade in services

6. October, 2006 6 Dissemination policy and the Statistical Information System

7. October, 2006 7 Present OECD platforms The Statistics Portal www.oecd.org/statisticswww.oecd.org/statistics –Freely available –Limited datasets (“10%”) –Mixed formats SourceOECD –Subscription service –Free at point of access –Analytical publications and Beyond 20/20 databases OLIS –Extranet for government officials –Free access to statistics data warehouse OECD.Stat –Free access to all publications

8. October, 2006 8 Some trends Revenues €4.5 million / year Printed statistical publications still in demand Cross-domain products: OECD Factbook, Country Statistical Profiles StatLink: URL to Excel tables

9. October, 2006 9 What is the Statistical Information System? Immense integrated statistical information bank Data and metadata can be combined and used over and over again, for innumerable outputs Horizontal products covering various subject matters can be developed at a reasonable cost Provided data and metadata are properly organised

10. October, 2006 10 SIS Architecture ProductionStorageDissemination Data Production (incl. StatWorks) MetaStore Statistical Metadata OECD.Stat Corporate Data Warehouse XML Online access Books CDs etc. 80 % of all statistics The rest in 2006

11. October, 2006 11 SIS benefits Quality –Harmonisation of concepts –Improved statistical metadata –Coherence of data and metadata across datasets –Dynamic updating –SDMX User friendliness –One-stop database –Combine data across themes –Alternative outputs for different audiences Internal Efficiency

12. October, 2006 12 Finding OECD statistics

13. October, 2006 13 Access to OECD.Stat Access to the data warehouse restricted –OECD officials –government officials through OLIS –a few datasets on the Internet January-September 750,000 downloads –of which 710,000 Internet use –30,000 from OLIS

14. October, 2006 14 Accessing OECD statistics OLIS (with a logon) OLISwith a logon –horizontal access to all databases and vertical access within each database –targeted at users who have skill and time –books and publications Free on Internet: Core Data –key ready-made tables and sub-sets –500-1000 tables and sub-sets –targeted at expert users and informed lay users –Statistics PortalStatistics Portal StatLinks –e.g. Factbook 2006 p. 115Factbook 2006 p. 115

15. October, 2006 15 Most accessed 2006 DATASET 2006 Country statistical profile 2006174,201 Country statistical profiles 2005145,916 1--Gross domestic product35,578 Reference Series24,821 Expenditure by funding source and transaction type14,847 Price indices (MEI)12,172 Financial indicators MEI11,031 Main Economic Indicators: Archive data and revisions10,336 Graduates by field of education10,246 Insurance Indicators9,623

16. October, 2006 16 Metadata: The key to understanding

17. October, 2006 17 Access to metadata together with data in OECD.Stat –well structured –attachment levels independently and freely on www –MetaStore “Google for numbers” –easy to find –deep descriptions

18. October, 2006 18 Making visual material

19. October, 2006 19 Tables or Graphs From StatLinks to PPT –e.g. all Factbook graphs From OECD.Stat via Excel to PPT –anything you like Don’t fill it too much – keep it simple Careful with sizes

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21. October, 2006 21 Top 10 datasets accessed by OLIS 2006

22. October, 2006 22 Real GDP growth, per cent

23. October, 2006 23 Using other sources

24. October, 2006 24 Where can I find other sources ? OECD Statistics Portal, Sources UN Demographic Yearbook CIA World Factbook

25. October, 2006 25 Future

26. October, 2006 26 Develop infrastructures & products Develop integrated dissemination –OECD Statistics –Branding & standardising Core Data –Develop Figures & Facts Diversify according to user groups Cross-domain products

27. October, 2006 27 New opportunities publications can be smaller and more analytically focused new (and existing) horizontal publications integrate SourceOECD with the free dissemination of basic statistics links between all the different ways statistics can be viewed go immediately, e.g., from a database query to a StatLink or a related analytical e-book fixed and dynamic tables can be stored queries to OECD.Stat

28. October, 2006 28 Your feed-back Did this workshop meet expectations ? Should there be another one ? Could we have exercises ? –in a class-room with pc’s Wishes for contents ? Ideas about better access to OECD data ?

29. October, 2006 The End Tour Europe

30. October, 2006 30 the following slides are screen-shots that can be shown if Internet or OLIS doesn’t work

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