standardization: quality assurance by standardization, use of common methods and tools – the...
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Standardization: quality assurance by standardization, use of common methods and tools – the Polish experience
Monika BieniekMethodology, Standards and Registers Department
Central Statistical Office of Poland
Vienna, June 2014
The mission of the official statistics
• Providing credible, reliable, independent and high quality statistical information
• Activities based on the international standards
• Standardization and harmonization activities in the field of the statistical metadata system
Statistical Metadata System(SMS)
System Supporting Organization and Monitoring
of Designing Statistical Surveys (SPBS)
Information System of Public Statistics (SISP)
The Metadata Repository place of storage all metadata
Breakdown into functional groups:• Survey and methodological metadata• Definitional metadata• Structural metadata• Technical metadata• Operational metadata• Process metadata• Quality metadata
Statistical Metadata System Suporting Organization System (SMS) and Monitoring of Designing
Statistical Surveys (SPBS)
• Tasks: designing metadata structures, collecting metadata and their dissimination
• Functions: Metadata management Classification Server
management Authorisation management Metadata dissimination
• The integrated part of the system which will enable tool support for the statistical business proces
• Functions: Workflow management Planning and monitoring of
statistical process Reporting
Activities currently carried out within the SMS/SPBS system
The superior metadata models
Classification Server
System Supporting Organization and Monitoring
of Designing Statistical Surveys (SPBS)
The Repository of Information Standards (RSI)
• the functionalities of the SMS/SPBS system applied in RSI comprehensively
• focused on increasing availability, comparability and integration of public administration information systems
• contributes to improving the quality of public administration information systems through their standardization
The scheme of the Repository of Information Standards
owners of data sources
Selected in SMS superior metadata applicable in statistics as a standards for comparisonsCorrelation with terms in SMS and
consistency assessment
Correlation with classifications in SMS and consistency assessment
CSO
Conclusions
The new system :• will enable constant adjustment of metadata models
to changing environment and users’ needs• will assure more effective steering of work and
information flow in the Polish official statistical units The implementation of new tool as the work
environment in the Polish statistics is carried out step by step and should be continued in the next years
Conclusions
• Use of common methods and tools, which serve to assure the highest statistical data quality, require intense commitment of statistical experts, as well as IT specialists
• Important role in ensuring the coherency and accuracy of introduced metadata is played by the special coordinating unit (Methodology, Standards and Registers Department)
Fulfillment of recommendations for quality
European Statistics Code of Practices particularly in:the Principle 7 ‘Sound methodology’, the Principle 8 ‘Appropriate Statistical Procedures’, the Principle 9 ‘Non-excessive Burden on Respondents’, the Principle 14 ‘Coherence and Comparability’
Fundamental Principles of Official Statisticsparticularly in the Principle 3 concerning the standardization
Thank you for your attention!