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United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Statistical Division The Common Statistical Production Architecture: An Important New Tool for Process Standardisation Steven Vale UNECE steven. vale@unece. org
Introducing the HLG v v v High-level Group for the Modernisation of Statistical Production and Services Created by the Conference of European Statisticians in 2010 Vision and strategy endorsed by CES in 2011/2012
Who are the HLG members? v v v v v Pádraig Dalton (Ireland) - Chairman Trevor Sutton (Australia) Wayne Smith (Canada) Emanuele Baldacci (Italy) Bert Kroese (Netherlands) Park, Hyungsoo (Republic of Korea) Genovefa Ružić (Slovenia) Walter Radermacher (Eurostat) Martine Durand (OECD) Lidia Bratanova (UNECE)
What does the HLG do? v v v Oversees activities that support modernisation of statistical organisations Stimulates development of global standards and international collaboration activities “Within the official statistics community. . . take a leadership and coordination role”
HLG Activities – Engagement Map
Problem statement: Specialised business processes, methods and IT systems for each survey / output
Applying Enterprise Architecture Disseminate
. . . but if each statistical organisation works by themselves. . .
. . . we get this. . .
. . which makes it hard to share and reuse!
… but if statistical organisations work together to define a common statistical production architecture. . .
. . . sharing is easier!
CSPA development project Architecture Proof of Concept
The “sprint” method
The Proof of Concept v 5 countries played the role of Builders Editrules v CANCEIS Blaise G Code SCS 3 countries played the role of Assemblers
Project Outcomes The CSPA approach works It promises increased: sharing • interoperability • collaboration opportunities • Some licensing issues!
2 Sprints 5 Build 3 Assemble teams United Kingdom 1 Working Group FAO 42 individuals
Implementation of the CSPA
Services being built 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Seasonal Adjustment – France, Australia, New Zealand Confidentiality on the fly – Canada, Australia Error correction – Italy SVG Generator – OECD SDMX transform – OECD Selecting sample from business register – Netherlands Editing components – Netherlands Classification Editor – Norway
v Architecture Working Group: Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Turkey, United Kingdom, Eurostat v Catalogue team: Australia, Canada, Italy, Hungary, New Zealand, Romania, Turkey, Eurostat
How to work together for minimum cost and maximum benefit?
Get involved! Anyone is welcome to contribute! More Information HLG Wiki: www 1. unece. org/stat/platform/display/hlgbas v Linked. In group: “Business architecture in statistics” v