1. The status of metadata standards and ModernStats models in SURS
ModernStats World Workshop 2018
SURS – Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
Julija Kutin
April, 2018

2. Statistical Standards and ModernStats models in SURS
SDMX
ISO/IEC 11179
DDI
ModernStats models:
GSBPM
CSPA
Challenges and next steps

3. 1.a. SDMX SDMX and statistical data SDMX and metadata
General problems with SDMX:
Different internal rules for dissemination
Only for Eurostat
Not standard tables for indicators
Different MSDs

4. 1.b. ISO/IEC – SDM module

5. Variables and questions in Excel

6. Usefulness of SDM module
1. E-questionnaires
Questions
Sub-questions
Tables – challenge
2. Response validation
Mandatory questions
Questions with specific values or rank of values
Responses in a specific format
3. Build the database
4. Data editing
Local
variables

7. 1.c. DDI
Mappings ISO/IEC to DDI
For generating questionnaires

8. 2.a. GSBPM

9. Survey design and preparation
Editing
Si_Stat
PAPI
Integration
Data processing
Data collection
The selection of observation units
CAPI
eDamis (Eurostat)
Imputation
Data analysis
Weighting
CATI
Documentation
Quality assessment
Evaluation
Data dissemination
Other IO
Agregation
eSTAT
Tabulation
Publi-cations
Disclosure
Adm.
SOP
Resear-ches
Data management
REGISTRY
Big Data
Row
data
Data files
SDMX HUB
Data files
Data files
Maro data
Data files
SPRS
Address list
DISSEM. DB
SRKG
Admin. data.
Admin. data
SRDAP
Admin. data
Final micro data
ARCHIVE
SCRP
Survey design and preparation
Si_Stat
Metadata diss.
Analysis of needs and requesrt
ESS MH
Users
Classifications
Metadata
SDMX HUB

10. Usefulness of GSBPM Manage and document statistical production
Documentary system for statistical surveys
Descriptions of processes of the statistical survey
Guidelines for Quality Assurance (QA)

11. Documentation of statistical survey
Before:
Missed documentation
Not structured documents
In different places
A new system:
One place for all surveys
Documents are structured (GSBPM)
The information can not be lost
Unauthorised access is not possible
Comparability between surveys
Preparation of documentation is planned part
of the survey implementation

12. System STATDOK is built at 3 levels
I. level
Basic information of the survey
Standardized Excel template
II. level
Description of the phase, sub-processes
7 standardized Word templates
III. level
Implementing documents
Standardized templates and not standardized documents

13. STATDOK example
level
One sheet for each phase

14. STATDOK example
II. level
7 templates one for each sub-process

15. STATDOK is usefull Methodologist 2. Head of the organizational unit
How did we do it?
How should it be done?
How is it done in other surveys?
Do we have data for 19XX?
Are they comparable?
Where can we find them?
Analysis of documentation
Education of co-workers
Optimisations
Standardization
Similarity
Personal data
Critical points …
Methodologist
2. Head of the organizational unit
3. Process / sub-process administrator and leadership

16. 2.b. CSPA ESTAT questionnaire generation
ESTAT web data collection portal
Metadata driven questionnaire generation
ISO/IEC metadata model
Concepts, codes/representations, categories, etc., are similar to DDI concepts.

17. ESTAT ENO reuse context
Manage survey data collection
Blaise manual editing
Design questionnaire
Generate questionnaire
Web Questio-nnaire
Blaise
Colle-cted data
Oracle
SDM Meta-data
ISO/IEC 11179 WS
Blaise
Blaise MD
SDM
Questionna-ire creator
SDM
Questionna-ire generator
PDF
Excel form WS
XSD
Orbeon MD
Pogues
Questionna-ire designer
ENO Questionna-ire generator
Web Questio-nnaire
Orbeon
DDI
DDI
Xforms WS
DDI

18. 4. Challenges and next steps
Go on with the SDMX standard
Meet with DDI deeper
Review of internal questionnaire design standard (complex questionnaires generation)
Rebuild SDM module
Use ENO DDI compliant SDM as common metadata repository for questionnaire design & generation (Blaise, Xform, Pdf, etc.)
GSBPM will be the basis of our further development
7. The use of CSPA standard should be considered for the specification and development of services

19. Thank you for your attention!