october, 2006 dissemination policy for oecd statistics

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Dissemination Policy for OECD Statistics

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Present platforms The Statistics Portal www.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

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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

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Access to OECD.Stat

OECD.Stat contains national accounts, education, health, .....

Is free for partners of OECD via OLIS Statistical offices are partners WPNA delegates can access freely YOU have been given a logon

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New Opportunities thanks to SIS

Immense integrated statistical information bank OECD.Stat

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

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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

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Access to OECD.Stat

full potential of OECD.Stat has not been explored

access to the data warehouse restricted– OECD officials – government officials through OLIS– a few datasets on the Internet

January-September 725,000 downloads – of which 690,000 Internet use

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Three new services

OECD Statistics– horizontal access to all databases and vertical

access within each database– targeted at users who have skill and time

OECD Core Data– key ready-made tables and sub-sets – 500-1000 tables and sub-sets– targeted at expert users and informed lay users

OECD Figures & Facts– simple tables with commentary. – targeted at journalists, managers, officials and

others new to international statistics

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Most accessed 2006

  External Internal

Dataset Internet OLIS  

1--Gross domestic product 42645 2113 1908

2--Disposable income and net lending - net borrowing 5340 227 93

3--Population and employment by main activity 3897 255 174

4--PPPs and exchange rates 3992 228 157

11--Government expenditure by function 1351 507 386

12--Main aggregates of general government 1465 241 436

610--Financial accounts - consolidated 410 115 308

710--Financial balance sheets - consolidated 453 342 291

720--Financial balance sheets - non consolidated 171 215 408

Central Government Debt 3222 272 2339

Quarterly National Accounts 4315 1655 869

 All National accounts 67360 8158 9025

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Access to metadata

together with data in OECD.Stat– attachment levels

independently and freely on www– MetaStore

“Google for numbers”– easy to find– deep descriptions

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Access principles

Core Data freely available to all via Statistics Portal and SourceOECD

Access to complete databases granted to all requesting individuals on a time-limited basis

Access to complete databases and e-books should be affordable for institutions

Access for those who pay supported by training and other added-value services

Access should be as local to users as possible, not just from OECD’s own websites

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Questions for discussion

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The End

TourEurope

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the following slides are screen-shots that can be shown if Internet or OLIS doesn’t work

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