1. Dissemination Statline tool and organisation André de Boer

2. Contents Statline architecture General principles Paper publications Information services Website Statline

3. Cube Manager StatLine Presentation layer Storage Logic Internet Server Cristal Manager Cube Cristal StatWeb 3.1 Architecture Internet Browser Internet

4. General principles Website is the primary instrument of dissemination All information on the website is for free All information free for everyone at the same time All regularly published information in StatLine

5. Paper publications Pressreleases: –250 releases a year –Manuscript by the statistical sector, editors at the output department –Support of the press by our press office Paper publications: –Tendency: More the story behind the figures, less tables –Less on paper, more on the internet

6. Information services Centralised Strategy: directing to website Pay Phone ( 0,50 EUR/Min) Requests > 5 minutes have to be paid Use of Webforms and Email management system

7. Website Maintained at the output department Primary instrument of dissemination Statistical part has a thematic structure (theme pages) Different methods of accessing the right data

8. StatLine StatLine as seen by the user Components of a StatLine matrix StatLine and www.cbs.nlwww.cbs.nl Internal organisation

9. StatLine as seen by the user (1) Search facility: – Search phrase gives hit list of tables (example)example Thematic index – User can scroll through a map tree of publications – After selecting a publication, user can select data (example)example

10. StatLine as seen by the user (2) After selection, the user can: – Modify the selection – Change columns with rows, nesting – Print the table – Save the table in different formats (html, xls, spss, txt) – Create a hyperlink to the StatLine database Example Example

11. StatLine as seen by the user (3) “Size” of StatLine – Publications1 300 – Cells1 603 000 000 (?) – GB 2.3 (?) – Biggest matrix878 826 025 cellsBiggest matrix – Sparsest matrix0.05 % cells not emptySparsest matrix – Update rate5-15 publications/day

12. Components StatLine matrix (1) Structure: One dimension with at least two subjects ordered in hierarchical way 1-6 dimensions with classification variables (dimension time should come last) Items of a classification can be grouped in different ways (example time dimension)example

13. Components StatLine matrix (2) Meta information: General description of the statistics (example)example For each subject: – Name – Unit – Explanation (optional) – Keyword (optional) For each classification – Explanation (optional) – Keyword (optional)

14. StatLine and www.cbs.nl (1)www.cbs.nl Free (also without identification) Updated every night (future: every day at 9.30) Link on homepage to list of updates in previous weekupdates Different ways of accessing StatLine (next page)

15. StatLine and www.cbs.nl (2)www.cbs.nl Access to StatLine on the Web: “Normal” way (search and thematic index) Main indicators Key figures Web articles Theme pages (e.g. Labour Market)Theme pages Classifications All with the use of active hyperlinks to StatLine

16. Internal organisation (1) Executive Board Division of Business Statistics Division of Social and Spatial Statistics Division of Macro-economic Statistics and Dissemination Division of Technology and Facilities Dep. 1 Dep. 3 Dep. 4 Dep. 5 Dep. 6 Dep. 2 Dep. 1 Dep. 3 Dep. 4 Dep. 2 Dep. 5 Dep. 1 Dep. 3 Dep. 4 Dep. 2 Publication and Communications Methods and Informatics Dep. 3 Dep. 4 Dep. 5 Dep. 6 ICT

17. Internal organisation (2) The statistical departments are responsible for: – Design of matrices (together with the output department) – Producing data files – Describing the meta data – Building and updating matrices – Quality of the data – Confidentiality of the data

18. Internal organisation (3) The output department is responsible for: – Design of matrices (together with the statistical departments) – Updating matrices in the StatLine dome – Editorial rules – Keywords – Archive of matrices – Management information – Consistency of presentation