Standardization: quality assurance by standardization, use of common methods and tools – the Polish experience

Monika BieniekMethodology, Standards and Registers Department

Central Statistical Office of Poland

Vienna, June 2014

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

Statistical Metadata System(SMS)

System Supporting Organization and Monitoring

of Designing Statistical Surveys (SPBS)

Information System of Public Statistics (SISP)

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

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

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)

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

The scheme of the Repository of Information Standards

owners of data sources

Selected in SMS superior metadata applicable in statistics as a standards for comparisonsCorrelation with terms in SMS and

consistency assessment

Correlation with classifications in SMS and consistency assessment

CSO

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

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)

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 Statisticsparticularly in the Principle 3 concerning the standardization

Thank you for your attention!