1. Modernisation and industrialisation of the online data collection
New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics (NTTS), Brussels
March 2017
I only deal with business data collection
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2. Presentation outline Context : the French existing system
The Coltrane project
The contact management
The portal of “customized” services
Examples
The good practice to put a survey on the web
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3. The French existing system
Insee and ministerial statistical Offices
80 business surveys
: sum of all the samples sizes
forms sent each year taking into account the periodicity of the surveys
For an entreprise, to fill a questionnaire :
To fill a paper form
To connect to one (or more) website(s) for dematerialized forms (complex for the enterprise : several portals)
Upload / download application (eg EXCEL sheets)
Blaise (Dutch software)
An internal java tool
A quick picture of the situation of French business surveys
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4. 2012 : Coltrane, a new strategic project
To modernise, industrialize and standardise online data collection
Several sub-projects including :
A real contact management, independant from the online data collection
Most of all : the availability of tools and modus operandi (for the NSI and its partners) to put « easily » surveys on the web
Moreover: since April 2011all statistical surveys should be put on the web (existing tools couldn’t allow it)
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5. The contact management
Independent from the online collection itself
Linked to an authentification service
One contact (one respondent in an enterprise) means a unique login (and password), for any survey
Insee staff is able to:
Create/delete/update a contact and its characteristics
Display the list of the surveys of a given contact
Assist the respondents and inform them about the coming surveys
Within a few months : communication with all the contacts of a given survey (sending mails or letters)
This WP deals with services for the Insee staff
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6. The portal of “customized” services
A unique Internet portal presents all the surveys
Including all the surveys from the NSI and ministerial statistical Offices
The portal is customized for each contact. Once authentificated, he can :
see all the surveys he is interested in
modify his own personal characteristics ( , address, password)
look at the remaining surveys he still has to answer (and their deadlines)
This WP deals with services for the contacts in the enterprises
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7. The portal of customized services
Help !
login
password
Lost password ? Lost login ?
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8. The portal of customized services
List of surveys
Help !
To update the own characteristics
NSI and ministerial services
Deadlines
To fill in a questionnaire
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9. Tools and modus operandi to put a survey on the web
« Axiom » : if several collection modes exist, the questionnaires should be generated from the same metadata flow
A very innovative process !
the questionnaires are modelized from a DDI description, a real strong standard for questionnaire description
then the form is generated with a questionnaire generator engine (which generates a new format : webform)
Advantages :
DDI offers a precise modelisation, an open standard, serialised in xml
Add of dynamic controls (consistency, controls on format)
Very modular
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10. A first questionnaire Insee - Modernisation online data collection
Ramona (Australia) & Colectica (US)
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11. A second questionnaire
Ramona (Australia) & Colectica (US)
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12. And now ? A real industrialization with a generator which is updated :
Five surveys are or have been collected since September 2016
Five others will be collected from April 2017 (we are testing them)
Enhancement of the side « running the collection » (to improve our management tools)
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13. Modernisation and industrialisation of the online data collection
Thanks for your attention !
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