1. MANAGEMENT OF STATISTICAL PRODUCTION PROCESS METADATA IN ISIS
Giedre
Vaisnoraite
Chief specialist
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2. Content Objectives of ISIS Structure of metadata in ISIS
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3. 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
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4. 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
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5. 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
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6. 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
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7. 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
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8. Structure of metadata base
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9. Main sub-systems of ISIS
Metainformation sub-system
Management and monitoring sub-system
Statistical surveys sub-system
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10. Structure of metainformation sub-system6. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 7. 8. 9.
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Survey fields and themes
Classifications
Indicators
Addresses register
Reports
Shared documents
Lists of personal information
Discussion
People and groups
Recycle bin
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11. Metainformation of indicators
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3.1.
3.3.
3.4.
3. Indicators
Measurement units
Groups of indicators
Changeable records of indicators
Indicators change history
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12. Structure of management and monitoring sub-system1. 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
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13. Structure of statistical survey sub-system1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
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Quality indicators of the statistical production processes
Reference manual
Information of surveys
Survey fields
Populations and samples
Questionnaires templates
Micro data
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14. Example of indicators description
Groups of indicators
Indicators
Information about group of indicators
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15. 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
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