National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics (INEGI)

Implementation of SDMX in Mexico

ROLES OF INEGI INEGI is a federal office that coordinates the production, standardization and dissemination of all statistical and geographical information of national interest

1.Main producer of statistical and geographical information of Mexico

2.Coordinator of other statistical information production Units

REASONS TO ADOPT SDMX IN MEXICO

Practical for many projects

Provides tools to improve statistical data and metadata exchange

IMPLEMENTATION KEY FACTORSPublicity of the standardComprehension of the standardPerception of usefulness Adoption by “a big enough group”

Multidisciplinary approachApplication to real projects

EXPERIENCE OF IMPLEMENTATION

Development of a common base of knowledge about the standardMeetings about the initiativeConceptual workshopsTechnical workshops

Application on small projects to test the conceptSimple applicationsOnly basic parts of the standardsUse of generic structures provided by the

standardEvaluation of the projectDissemination of the resultsIncorporation to more complex projects

CURRENT PROJECTSExchange of economical information with Bank of Mexico and SHCP (Federal Treasure Department)

Web service for querying of information in SDMX from the indicators database (Statistical Data Warehouse)

Website for statistical information exchange with OECD

WEBSERVICE FOR INFORMATION EXCHANGE AMONG BANK OF MEXICO, SHCP AND INEGI

SHCP

BANK OF MEXICO

.NET Client

Java Client

Inte

rnet

Database server

Web Services server

INEGI

Firewall

Different platforms support

Bank of Economical Indicators (BIE)

EXTRACTION OF INFORMATION FROM THE STATISTICAL DWH AS SDMX FILES

User

Intranet

SDMX file

Indicators IDs

Java Client

Oracle database

server

Web Services server

OAS10.1.3

Java

DWH

Indicators Database (Data and Metadata)

Web Service

Makes the query of the time series on SDMX format

Web Application

Selection of indicators

Receives an XML file to use it as needed

WEBSITE FOR INFORMATION EXCHANGE WITH INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

By now, we are working on the exchange of statistical information with OECD

The Website is part of the SISNIEG (The Information System of the National System of Statistical and Geographical Information)

It’s a mean of coordination among Mexican statistical information production units

Collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico (SRE)

Our contribution to the NAWWE project is being developed and will be part of the site

IMPLEMENTATION STAGES1. Integration of data from the different

government offices in the site using existing formats

2. Gradual transformation of the information to SDMX formats

3. Development of web services to automate the information exchange

LOGIN SCREEN

MAIN SCREEN

INFORMATION UPLOAD

INFORMATION UPLOAD (RECORDS)

DISSEMINATION AND RETRIEVAL

ARCHIVE

ACHIEVEMENTSThe areas of statistical information production from

INEGI have been capacitated on basic SDMX issues23 offices have already a login and a password to

deposit informationAbout 60 persons from 30 federal offices have been

trained on SDMX issuesConceptual aspectsTransformation of indicators to SDMX ML compact

modelSome producers have started to put information

in the siteSome of this information has been converted to

SDMX files already

INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR THE NATIONAL SYSTEM OF STATISTICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION (SISNIEG)

It will be a nationwide system that will support:Production of statistical and geographical

informationCoordination of Mexican information producersDissemination of statistical and geographical

information of national relevance providing easy access mechanisms

Promotion statistical and geographical information use and knowledge

Information safeguardSDMX has been adopted as part of its

technological architectureThe website for international information

exchange is part of this system

Logical Networks of the Mexican Statistical and Geographical System

Collaborative Network

International Information

Exchange Network

Network of Public

Information Service

DisseminationSystems

Collaborationand Information Exchange Systems

User

INEGI´s Repository to Public Service Information

Mexican Statistical and Geographical Information Services Portal

Collaborative Portal of the Mexican Statistical and Geographical System

Historical Information

Network

DESCRIPTION OF OUR APPROACH1. Awareness of the standard

and development of skills2. Development of projects3. Addition of new adopters4. Return to the first step

PROCESS KEY DRIVERSCollegiate teams (participation of people from

statistics, technologies, etc. and from institutions with different attributions)

Perceived utilityCapacity development (task force, skills, etc.)No added costs (the standard is part of the

projects that we already need to develop)Make the standard adoption very easy to

follow (gradual adoption, incremental projects, structures designed from simple to complex, from simple files to elaborated systems)

FUTURE OF SDMX IN INEGIDevelopment of the SISNIEG

New agreements with other Mexican Institutions to establish electronic information exchange projects

Addition of NAWWE information

Evolution of the international information exchange site

CONCLUSIONS Sharing of gained experience on SDMX implementation with

other organizations is helpful to improve our development processes.

It’s difficult to find information like internationally agreed Data Structure Definitions and Code lists for certain domains. A repository with this information would be very useful.

Implementation of SDMX is not only about technological issues.We need documentation suitable for people from different

backgrounds.Existing documents like the content oriented guidelines and the

implementation guides are useful, but we also need some executive papers focused on persuading high levels of the organizations to support this initiative.

SDMX is a set of standards in a maturation process that has been evolving.

SDMX is robust enough to be considered as a technological driver to support big statistical projects that involve information exchange.

QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS…Contact:

Juan Muñoz LópezJuan.Munoz@inegi.gob.mx