MANAGEMENT OF STATISTICAL PRODUCTION PROCESS METADATA IN ISIS Giedre Vaisnoraite Chief specialist 10-12 March, 2010 Management of metadata in ISIS

Content Objectives of ISIS Structure of metadata in ISIS Management of metadata 10-12 March, 2010 Management of metadata in ISIS

Statistical surveys area to standardize survey preparation, data collection, processing and dissemination processes to minimize the number of developed custom survey applications to improve the quality and to reduce the costs and time of statistical data processing to improve the quality of collected statistical data to provide opportunities for respondents to submit data in various forms and ways to use administrative data more efficiently 10-12 March, 2010 Management of metadata in ISIS

Communication, improvement of staff activity and management area to ensure the means of monitoring to create conditions for incident management and analysis to facilitate communication between the survey teams 10-12 March, 2010 Management of metadata in ISIS

Databases improvement area to improve the accessibility of statistical data and information to integrate all databases into a common system to create a common metadata base integrated into the system to reduce data duplication in the system to enable saving intermediate states of data to enable data archiving 10-12 March, 2010 Management of metadata in ISIS

General system functionality improvement area to provide the means for the staff of regional statistical offices to work with the system to ensure integrity with the existing components of the system and those planned to be developed to develop software satisfying the system’s objectives and users’ requirements to implement hardware and software necessary for proper functioning of the ISIS to implement means to improve data reliability, integrity, confidentiality 10-12 March, 2010 Management of metadata in ISIS

Main ISIS components Core Metadata Repository for Storage of unified metainformation of all statistical surveys (variables, code lists, editing and tabulation rules, etc.) Software for metadata management Uniform software for data manipulation using metadata (survey management and operation) Interfaces to basic registers and Dissemination DB Interface to Electronic Archive Processes and results quality management tools 10-12 March, 2010 Management of metadata in ISIS

Structure of metadata base 10-12 March, 2010 Management of metadata in ISIS

Main sub-systems of ISIS Metainformation sub-system Management and monitoring sub-system Statistical surveys sub-system 10-12 March, 2010 Management of metadata in ISIS

Structure of metainformation sub-system 6. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 7. 8. 9. 10. Survey fields and themes Classifications Indicators Addresses register Reports Shared documents Lists of personal information Discussion People and groups Recycle bin 10-12 March, 2010 Management of metadata in ISIS

Metainformation of indicators 3.2. 3. 3.1. 3.3. 3.4. 3. Indicators 3.1. Measurement units 3.2. Groups of indicators 3.3. Changeable records of indicators 3.4. Indicators change history 10-12 March, 2010 Management of metadata in ISIS

Structure of management and monitoring sub-system 1. 2. 3. 4. 6. 7. 8. 9. Monitoring quality of the processes Respondents packages Reference manual Messages and monitoring of survey Shared documents Lists of personal information Discussion People and groups Recycle bin 10-12 March, 2010 Management of metadata in ISIS

Structure of statistical survey sub-system 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. ..... 7. Quality indicators of the statistical production processes Reference manual Information of surveys Survey fields Populations and samples Questionnaires templates Micro data 10-12 March, 2010 Management of metadata in ISIS

Example of indicators description Groups of indicators Indicators Information about group of indicators 10-12 March, 2010 Management of metadata in ISIS

Example of code for Structure of indicators “3” means statistical domain “Environment and multi-domain statistics”, “1” describes statistical areas within domains “12” describes group of Statistical survey “02” describes subgroup of Statistical survey “007” describes number of specific statistical survey “003” describes number of indicators’ group of specific statistical survey “001” describes number of indicators of group “003” “01” describes number of sub-indicator and so on 10-12 March, 2010 Management of metadata in ISIS