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An innovative way to provideeasy access to UN System data
CCSA Conference on Data Quality for International Organizations
Stefan Schweinfest and Mary Jane Holupka, United Nations Statistics Division
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UNdata and Quality (2)
Introduction
UNdata and accessibility Searching
Data presentation
Customization possibilities for users
Metadata
Addressing other quality dimensions: relevance, accuracy, comparability, timeliness
Challenges ahead
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UNdata – Introduction (3)
60+ years of data collection Data stored in numerous databases: different web
interfaces; different access and dissemination policies
Driving force for UNdata’s development – reduce fragmentation;
“Statistics as a Public Good” Project – with Statistics Sweden, Gapminder Foundation, financial support from the Swedish Intl Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)
Provide easier access, increase dissemination, use and understanding of int’l stats, free of charge
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UNdata – Accessibility (4)
available free of charge, no need to subscribe or register; one interface from which all underlying datasets can be
searched and browsed; easily searchable by either using the search box or clicking on
a particular dataset name and browsing its contents; requires few clicks to get where one wants to go; presents data clearly, in simple tabular presentation formats,
which can then be customized and further refined by sorting, filtering, including/excluding columns and pivoting;
provides various download formats (xml or value separated for data received in relational database format, or excel tables if the original data were provided in that format);
Understandability/clarity links to or provides relevant accompanying metadata.
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Bringing Information to the World
Quick facts
16 Databases
4 Table sets
55 Million records
192 Country profiles
6 Glossaries
UNdata partners
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UNdata – Coverage (6)
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UNdata – Search by country name (7)
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Search by keyword; default data presentation (8)
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Customized table after filtering, sorting and pivoting; download formats (9)
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UNdata Wiki – Metadata and more (10)
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UNdata – Administration tool to help assess relevance (11)
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UNdata in the future (12)
More data, more partners More explanatory metadata More timely updates More search fine-tuning More visualization tools More languages More databases included, perhaps from
countries’ NSOs
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