1. Improving cooperation and quality in deliveries from Primary statistics (PS) to National Accounts (NA) Roger Pettersson Statistics Sweden

2. 2 Key words NA= National Accounts PS= Primary statistics RI= Right Input = Team at NA SLA= Service Level Agreements Quality Evaluation form

3. Roger P NR/SES

4. Aim Reliable and user-oriented NA-statistics Quality declarations of PS for NA’s needs Improvements if shortcomings Investigations if something is unclear Adapted structure of the delivered data Information describing the delivered data This should be regulated in SLA’s between NA and PS

5. Right Input Task: Develop and preserve methods and tools for communication and cooperation between NA and PS Give guiding principles for the work Supporting those involved Storing documents Monitoring the process Follow up and evaluation meetings Suggesting products and timetables

7. A series of activities that work up a product Repeated several times in a similar way. A distinctly defined start and end Always has an internal or external customer Process

8. Statistics production process Support and infrastructure Specify needs 1 Design and plan 2 Build and test 3 Collect 4 Process 5 Analyse 6 Disseminate and communicate 7 Evaluate and feedback 8

9. Mission statement Data in an adapted structure to NA Agreed quality in all quality dimensions Content and quality shall be sufficient for users’ application of the NA statistics Discrepancies between NA and PS figures regarding comparability and coherence are explained upon publication Well developed cooperation NA and PS Heads must give priority to the work

10. Support to the SLAprocess Guidelines for the SLAwork Quality Evaluation Form Checklist for SLAmeetings (quality meetings) Yearly document of planned deliveries Form for SLA Checklist for follow-up meetings Mailbox *Right Input

11. Components in the Quality evaluation form 1 Information that identifies the source and the part(s) of NAcalculation 16 components about Population and sampling Sampling uncertainty Measurement error and problems Estimation and processing errors Summary evaluation of the components above Documentation

12. Components in the Quality evaluation form 2 Revision policy Knowledge exchange Preserving Secrecy - publishing level Timeliness Quarterly/Yearly data Previous SLA Quality change made over time Cooperation between different Primary statistics Report on differences between Primary statistics and NA

13. Quality information – deliveries from PS to NA 1 General information (every year) Information about population Changed content of variables, changed definitions, time series break? Sampling and sample handling

14. Quality information – deliveries from PS to NA 2 Information at deliveries General information (at deliveries) Break in time series Changes in samples Non-response Random errors Measurement problems Estimates Explanation of big changes Description of tables

15. Evaluation of the job NA and PS have follow-up meetings about content in the SLA and the process RI and those at NAdepartment responsible for the SLA have a yearly follow-up meeting about the process RI and the heads for NAunits have follow-up meetings The result of the job is presented for the internal council for NA