1. Standardization: quality assurance by standardization, use of common methods and tools – the Polish experience Monika Bieniek Methodology, Standards and Registers Department Central Statistical Office of Poland Vienna, June 2014

2. The mission of the official statistics Providing credible, reliable, independent and high quality statistical information Activities based on the international standards Standardization and harmonization activities in the field of the statistical metadata system

3. Statistical Metadata System (SMS) System Supporting Organization and Monitoring of Designing Statistical Surveys (SPBS) Information System of Public Statistics (SISP)

4. The Metadata Repository place of storage all metadata Breakdown into functional groups: Survey and methodological metadata Definitional metadata Structural metadata Technical metadata Operational metadata Process metadata Quality metadata

5. Statistical Metadata System Suporting Organization System (SMS) and Monitoring of Designing Statistical Surveys (SPBS) Tasks: designing metadata structures, collecting metadata and their dissimination Functions:  Metadata management  Classification Server management  Authorisation management  Metadata dissimination The integrated part of the system which will enable tool support for the statistical business proces Functions:  Workflow management  Planning and monitoring of statistical process  Reporting

6. Activities currently carried out within the SMS/SPBS system The superior metadata models Classification Server System Supporting Organization and Monitoring of Designing Statistical Surveys (SPBS)

7. The Repository of Information Standards (RSI) the functionalities of the SMS/SPBS system applied in RSI comprehensively focused on increasing availability, comparability and integration of public administration information systems contributes to improving the quality of public administration information systems through their standardization

8. The scheme of the Repository of Information Standards public administration system information termsclassificationobject terms classification owners of data sources Selected in SMS superior metadata applicable in statistics as a standards for comparisons Correlation with terms in SMS and consistency assessment Correlation with classifications in SMS and consistency assessment CSO

9. Conclusions The new system : will enable constant adjustment of metadata models to changing environment and users’ needs will assure more effective steering of work and information flow in the Polish official statistical units The implementation of new tool as the work environment in the Polish statistics is carried out step by step and should be continued in the next years

10. Conclusions Use of common methods and tools, which serve to assure the highest statistical data quality, require intense commitment of statistical experts, as well as IT specialists Important role in ensuring the coherency and accuracy of introduced metadata is played by the special coordinating unit (Methodology, Standards and Registers Department)

11. Fulfillment of recommendations for quality European Statistics Code of Practices particularly in: the Principle 7 ‘Sound methodology’, the Principle 8 ‘Appropriate Statistical Procedures’, the Principle 9 ‘Non-excessive Burden on Respondents’, the Principle 14 ‘Coherence and Comparability’ Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics particularly in the Principle 3 concerning the standardization

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