1. Lisbone, 11-13 March 20091 ALBANIAN METADATA AlbMeta Prepared by INSTAT Working Group

2. Lisbone, 11-13 March 2009 2 THE MISSION OF INSTAT INSTAT’ s mission is to produce objective, impartial, reliable, professional independence, relevance, transparence and timely statistics that help the user to judge on the developments of the transformation processes in our country.

3. Lisbone, 11-13 March 2009 3 The vision of INSTAT As only used statistics are useful statistics, INSTAT strives to become : –the major source of statistical information providing decision makers, research and education in Albania –in the international community with relevant, reliable and comparable statistical information. –with a learning attitude and systematic network for marketing and disseminating statistical information making use of modern networking structures and information technology

4. Lisbone, 11-13 March 2009 4 INSTAT’s structure 2009 Internal AuditCouncil of Statistics General Director

5. Lisbone, 11-13 March 2009 5 Metadata strategy Collection of information about the data collected in an application or database.Collection of information about the data collected in an application or database. Decide how meta data would be used in the organizationDecide how meta data would be used in the organization Decide who would use what meta data and whyDecide who would use what meta data and why Develop map for managing statistical information from different sourcesDevelop map for managing statistical information from different sources Improve the quality of statistics producedImprove the quality of statistics produced

6. Lisbone, 11-13 March 2009 6 Purpose of metadata The main purpose of statistical metadata is to inform users of statistical data about: which statistical data are available where to find and how to retrieve certain statistical data that they need how to interpret statistical data, once they are available

7. Lisbone, 11-13 March 2009 7 Current situation Implementation a metadata model based on Official Statistical Program (PSZ). At that moment the SCBDOC was considering as the only suitable model to be used as a template. INSTAT has made some successful pilots for metadata based on Official Statistics Program (PSZ).

8. Lisbone, 11-13 March 2009 8 Current situation (cont 1) From statistical point of view: INSTAT has made some successful pilots based on Official Statistical Program (PSZ). The first one was prepared for Business Statistics activities as well as: SBS, STS- survey, STS-building permits, Foreign trade statistics, Tourism statistics, Transport statistics

9. Lisbone, 11-13 March 2009 9 Current situation (cont 2) From IT point of view: IT sector has developed the AlbMeta application which is a application used for describing a physical database for a micro data register. The development tools used are all from Microsoft: SQL Server 2005 and Visual Basic.NET.

10. Lisbone, 11-13 March 2009 10 PSZ organization 0 General information0 General information 0.1Policy area 0.2Domain of interest 0.3Part of Official Statistics of Albania 0.4Responsible person 0.5Producer 0.6Mandatory duty to supply data to the survey 0.7Confidentiality and processing rules for personal data 0.8Appraisal and disposal rules 0.9EU regulations 0.10Objectives and background 0.11Use of the statistics 0.12Design and implementation 0.13Planned modifications in future surveys

11. Lisbone, 11-13 March 2009 11 PSZ organization 1 Contents outline1 Contents outline 1.1 Observation parameters 1.2Statistical target parameters 1.3Output: statistics and micro data 1.4Documentation and metadata 2 Data collection2 Data collection 2.1Frame and frame procedures 2.2Sampling procedures 2.3Measurement instruments 2.4Data collection procedures 2.5Data preparation

12. Lisbone, 11-13 March 2009 12 PSZ organization (cont) 3Final observation registers3Final observation registers 3.1Production versions 3.2Long-term (archive, terminal) storage versions 3.3Experiences from the latest survey round 4Statistical processing and presentation4Statistical processing and presentation 4.1Estimation: assumptions and calculation formulas 4.2Presentation procedures 5Data processing system5Data processing system 6Log file6Log file

13. Lisbone, 11-13 March 2009 13 Cost and Benefits –Cost Hard work for describing the PSZ Hard work between IT staff and statistician Every thing is done parallel with daily work –Benefits Hopefully produced statistics in standard way and process oriented way To be more efficient

14. Lisbone, 11-13 March 2009 14 Implementation strategy One important aspect is to develop a system for documentation of micro data that has an improved functionality and higher quality of the content of current AlbMeta. The system is going to work together with other parts of the metadata system. The system will: –Provide an overview of metadata for the micro data. –Provide information for evaluating the possibilities for matching data from different surveys or other sources. –Operate as a tool for increased standardisation and harmonisation and therefore give better possibilities for data coordination. –Provide a better support for documenting so that the overall quality of the documentations can be increased.

15. Lisbone, 11-13 March 2009 15 Practical work The system is going to be an important tool for a large part of Institute of Statistics. Therefore user groups consisting of interested persons were tied to the project from the beginning. The user groups were categorised in statisticians, methodologists and system developers. These groups took an active part in developing the content and functionality of the system in order to be a useful tool for them in their practical work. Other requirements have also been collected by the project group and taken into account when developing the system.

16. Lisbone, 11-13 March 2009 16 Project Organisation The metadata group is composed from the IT, Business Statistics, Methodology and Business Register staff and LTC from Statistics Sweden.

17. Lisbone, 11-13 March 2009 17 Metadata sources The main sources that Institute of Statistics used for collecting and producing the statistical data are: –Statistical surveys –Administrative sources. – The metadata is organizing in direction of those two main sources. For the moment there is no real data in the database system.

18. Lisbone, 11-13 March 2009 18 Metadata used The only metadata managed at this stage is for the developing and designing phase. The project is planning to introduce PC Axis as a dissemination tool from a macro database.

19. PSZ application Lisbone, 11-13 March 2009 19

20. 20 AlbMeta application

21. Lisbone, 11-13 March 2009 21 Thank you for your attention!