1. The PC-Axis family A consortium for output databases Presented by: Ulrika Arver, Statistics Sweden

2. Statistics Sweden 2 What is PC-Axis… Software platform for coherent, efficient and user friendly dissemination of statistics. Metadata rich Windows, Internet and SQL extension Dynamic multi dimensional tables Easy conversion to several file formats Includes whole spectrum of dissemination products

3. Statistics Sweden 3 The software in the PC-Axis family PC-Axis main module PX-Web PC-Axis SQL PX-Batch PX-Publ PX-Make PX-Edit PX-iGraph PX-Map PX-iMap

4. Statistics Sweden 4 The PC-Axis file format Plain ASCII Developed in harmony with the data model in the Meta Database Very metadata rich Keywords in English Extension px

5. Statistics Sweden 5 Creating px-files PX-Edit PX-Make Super cross TPL

6. Statistics Sweden 6 Main module cont.

7. Statistics Sweden 7 PX-Web Server based database tool to disseminate statistics as dynamic tables on the Internet Requires a Microsoft Internet Information Server Handles multiple language Options to customize

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9. 9 PX-Map & PX-iMap PX-Map2

10. Statistics Sweden 10 The story of PC-Axis Thesis on multidimensional matrices by Dr. Bo Sundgren (70´s) Axis (80´s) PC-Axis (90´s) Swedish Population Census (1990) Relational output database (1997) PX-Web (1999) Ongoing development

11. Statistics Sweden 11 The consortium Sweden managing the consortium Nordic core - Sweden, Denmark and Norway Develop the common Meta data model International reference group Swedish user group Internal use group at Statistics Sweden Internal group SSD Steering committee for the Data Base project at Statistics Sweden

12. Statistics Sweden 12 Countries and organizations using PC-Axis Europe: Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Greenland, Republic of Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden Asia: Taiwan, The Philippines, Kuwait Africa: Algeria, Mozambique, Namibia, Uganda, South Africa, Tanzania South America: Bolivia and Brazil Organizations: UN/ECE, East African Community, FAO (Kyrgyzstan, Ghana, Kenya)

13. Statistics Sweden 13 3 good reasons to choose PC-Axis Fast and easy Cost efficient Constant improvement and used by all the developers

14. Statistics Sweden 14 More information www.pc-axis.scb.se Example