1. SDMX: From Labour Force Department to the Statistical Database
7th SDMX Global Conference
16-19 September
Budapest - Hungary
SDMX:
From Labour Force Department
to the Statistical Database
Houssam El Ouinkhir Kamel Gaanoun

2. Statistical Database Created early 80s. Contains 900 indicators.
Covers various themes: social, demographic and economic.
Published under open data recommendations via this link: bds.hcp.ma (214 indicators published)

3. SDB updating mode LFS Data
More than 170 LFS indicators, including quarterly and annual results both for urban and rural areas
Generated from SPSS in an Excel format by the LFS department
Sent regularly by to the SDB unit
All indicators are manually entered in the SDB by the SDB unit technicians
if any update is needed, the same process is then repeated

4. The challenge Human error Time consuming Manual data entry
Non standard input
Excel format

5. The SDMX Solution Enable automatic SDB Update Mapping DSD SPSS1
Construct DSD
Mapping DSD SPSS 2 3
Generate SDMX file 4
Mapping DSD SDB 5
Enable automatic SDB Update

6. The SDMX Solution
DSD
No common LFS DSD was available at the time of the implementation
Various sources were used :
With respect of SDMX Guidelines (COG,DSD Design, Cross domains CL)
SDMX Global Registry
IMF SDMX Central
EURO SDMX Registry
HCP’s Specific code_lists
Use of the Eurostat Data Structure Wizard (DSW) for DSD generation.

7. The SDMX Solution
DSD

8. The SDMX Solution From SPSS to SDMX
First solution :
Generate Excel files from SPSS
Convert to SDMX using Eurostat SDMX Converter
Second solution :
Generate XML file from SPSS
Extract Dimensions from the XML
Map to the DSD

9. The SDMX Solution SDB automatic update
The SDB automatic update is enabled towards the following two steps:
Mapping between SDB and Labor force DSD.
Using mapping file and SDMX file to update the SDB.
The SDB update is done by a python batch.

10. Conclusion SDMX allowed us to : Reduce human-error rate
Save data-entry time
Standardise the update
Get ready to futur SDMX exchanges
Even if :
Learning/training consumes time
DSD construction (especially for LF) isn’t straightforward
Generalisation of the process to other operations should be studied (training, concepts complexity, DSD’s Availability…)

11. Houssam El Ouinkhir Kamel Gaanoun h.elouinkhir@hcp.ma k.gaanoun@hcp.ma
THANKS
Houssam El Ouinkhir Kamel Gaanoun