1. IMAODBC, The Hague, 5-9 sept 2005
INE-Spain
2005 national update
Antonio ARGÜESO
IMAODBC, The Hague, 5-9 sept 2005
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2. 1. A new homepage (since march 05)
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1. A new homepage (since march 05)
Now: 3 columns
1 Permanent
sections
3 promotional items
2. Main data & news.
RSS service
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3. 2. The Census 2001 data warehouse:
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2. The Census 2001 data warehouse:
From The Oslo Conference presentation:
The output of the Population and Housing Census 2001 Dissemination System is NOT ONLY a set of tables ...
... but a 4-steps procedure to create tables from a storage containing microdata and cubes.
Link to Census 2001
lights & shadows one year later
Lights: It is a real “self service”
No complaints, no ad hoc requests
Shadows: Service shutdowns and/or robot attacks
And doubts: future of the system, maintenance, integration
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4. 3. Improvements. A project: Tempus II
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3. Improvements. A project: Tempus II
The user need: a different way to retrieve the information, not only by theme. Examples:
-Gender database
- Territorial “baskets” (all data for Madrid)
- Short term analysis, …..
The idea: to provide to the users a tool to create their own “basket of series” within INEbase.
Available: december 2005.
The user acceses INEbase by division (statistical operation), selects series and put into a “shopping basket”
At the end of the process he/she retrieves an excel book with as many sheets as divisions and the selected series within each sheet
The excel book is updated by the user at any moment
No user-id, no passwords, just lists of series controlled by the user in files stored by him/her
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5. Thank you!
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