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- Articles and reports: 11-522-X200800010941Description:
Prior to 2004, the design and development of collection functions at Statistics New Zealand (Statistics NZ) was done by a centralised team of data collection methodologists. In 2004, an organisational review considered whether the design and development of these functions was being done in the most effective way. A key issue was the rising costs of surveying as the organisation moved from paper-based data collection to electronic data collection. The review saw some collection functions decentralised. However, a smaller centralised team of data collection methodologists was retained to work with subject matter areas across Statistics NZ.
This paper will discuss the strategy used by the smaller centralised team of data collection methodologists to support subject matter areas. There are three key themes to the strategy. First, is the development of best practice standards and a central standards repository. Second, is training and introducing knowledge sharing forums. Third, is providing advice and independent review to subject matter areas which design and develop collection instruments.
Release date: 2009-12-03 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X200800011009Description:
The National Routing System is a multi-jurisdictional effort to improve the collection and validation of birth and death information from provincial vital event registries. Instead of having to wait for batch files to be sent at various points during the year, provinces send individual records as an event is registered. Timeliness is further enhanced by the adoption of data and technical standards. Data users no longer have to deal with multiple data formats and transfer media when compiling data from multiple sources. Similarly, data providers need to perform a once only transformation of their data in order to satisfy multiple clients.
Release date: 2009-12-03 - 3. Delivering the metadata: An RDC experience ArchivedArticles and reports: 11-522-X20050019456Description:
The metadata associated with microdata production of major Statistics Canada household and social surveys are often voluminous and daunting. There does not appear to be a systematic approach to disseminating the metadata of confidential microdata files across all surveys. This heterogeneity applies to content as well as method of dissemination. A pilot project was conducted within the RDC Program to evaluate one standard, the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI), that might support such a process.
Release date: 2007-03-02 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X20030017604Description:
This paper explains the scope, objectives and challenges of research and analysis on operations at Statistics Canada and gives some examples of the work accomplished to date.
Release date: 2005-01-26 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X20030017606Description:
This paper presents the Framework for Subject Matter Standards (FSMS), which shows a global picture of the statistical units and variables used at Statistics Canada. The FSMS also provides a framework for organizing the metadata and structuring the definitions in the Integrated Metadatabase (IMDB).
Release date: 2005-01-26 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X20030017696Description:
This paper describes how to design a document that can be navigated on the Web. It also discusses the metadata and processes that determine where a document is located on Statistics Canada's website, how it links to related resources, and how various search engines find it.
Release date: 2005-01-26 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X20030017699Description:
This paper illustrates the link between the strategic needs of a national statistical office (NSO) and the methodological needs that this generates.
Release date: 2005-01-26 - 8. Making data quality visible in practice ArchivedArticles and reports: 11-522-X20030017715Description:
This paper reports on a program of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) designed to increase awareness of the quality of ABS data, and to educate users about the importance of knowledge of data quality.
Release date: 2005-01-26 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X20010016280Description:
This paper discusses in detail issues dealing with the technical aspects of designing and conducting surveys. It is intended for an audience of survey methodologists.
Survey response rates serve as one key measure of the quality of a data set. However, they are only useful to a statistical agency in the evaluation of ongoing data collections if they are based on a predefined set of formulas and definitions that are uniformly applied across all data collections.
In anticipation of a revision of the current National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) statistical standards, several agency-wide audits of statistical practices were undertaken in the late 1990s. In particular, a compendium documenting major survey design parameters of NCES surveys was drafted. Related to this, NCES conducted a targeted audit of the consistency in response rate calculations across these surveys.
Although NCES has had written statistical standards since 1988, the audit of the reported response rates from 50 survey components in 14 NCES surveys revealed considerable variability in procedures used to calculate response rates. During the course of the response rate audit, the Statistical Standards Program staff concluded that the organization of the 1992 Standards made it difficult to find all of the information associated with response rates in the standards. In fact, there are references to response rate in a number of separate standards scattered throughout the 1992 Statistical Standards.
Release date: 2002-09-12 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X20010016301Description:
This paper discusses in detail issues dealing with the technical aspects of designing and conducting surveys. It is intended for an audience of survey methodologists.
The Integrated Metadatabase is a corporate repository of information for each of Statistics Canada's surveys. The information stored in the Integrated Metadatabase includes a description of data sources and methodology, definitions of concepts and variables measured, and indicators of data quality. It provides an effective vehicle for communicating data quality to data users. Its coverage of Statistics Canada's data holdings is exhaustive, the provided information on data quality complies with the Policy on Informing Users of Data Quality and Methodology, and it is presented in a consistent and systematic fashion.
Release date: 2002-09-12
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- Articles and reports: 11-522-X200800010941Description:
Prior to 2004, the design and development of collection functions at Statistics New Zealand (Statistics NZ) was done by a centralised team of data collection methodologists. In 2004, an organisational review considered whether the design and development of these functions was being done in the most effective way. A key issue was the rising costs of surveying as the organisation moved from paper-based data collection to electronic data collection. The review saw some collection functions decentralised. However, a smaller centralised team of data collection methodologists was retained to work with subject matter areas across Statistics NZ.
This paper will discuss the strategy used by the smaller centralised team of data collection methodologists to support subject matter areas. There are three key themes to the strategy. First, is the development of best practice standards and a central standards repository. Second, is training and introducing knowledge sharing forums. Third, is providing advice and independent review to subject matter areas which design and develop collection instruments.
Release date: 2009-12-03 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X200800011009Description:
The National Routing System is a multi-jurisdictional effort to improve the collection and validation of birth and death information from provincial vital event registries. Instead of having to wait for batch files to be sent at various points during the year, provinces send individual records as an event is registered. Timeliness is further enhanced by the adoption of data and technical standards. Data users no longer have to deal with multiple data formats and transfer media when compiling data from multiple sources. Similarly, data providers need to perform a once only transformation of their data in order to satisfy multiple clients.
Release date: 2009-12-03 - 3. Delivering the metadata: An RDC experience ArchivedArticles and reports: 11-522-X20050019456Description:
The metadata associated with microdata production of major Statistics Canada household and social surveys are often voluminous and daunting. There does not appear to be a systematic approach to disseminating the metadata of confidential microdata files across all surveys. This heterogeneity applies to content as well as method of dissemination. A pilot project was conducted within the RDC Program to evaluate one standard, the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI), that might support such a process.
Release date: 2007-03-02 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X20030017604Description:
This paper explains the scope, objectives and challenges of research and analysis on operations at Statistics Canada and gives some examples of the work accomplished to date.
Release date: 2005-01-26 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X20030017606Description:
This paper presents the Framework for Subject Matter Standards (FSMS), which shows a global picture of the statistical units and variables used at Statistics Canada. The FSMS also provides a framework for organizing the metadata and structuring the definitions in the Integrated Metadatabase (IMDB).
Release date: 2005-01-26 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X20030017696Description:
This paper describes how to design a document that can be navigated on the Web. It also discusses the metadata and processes that determine where a document is located on Statistics Canada's website, how it links to related resources, and how various search engines find it.
Release date: 2005-01-26 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X20030017699Description:
This paper illustrates the link between the strategic needs of a national statistical office (NSO) and the methodological needs that this generates.
Release date: 2005-01-26 - 8. Making data quality visible in practice ArchivedArticles and reports: 11-522-X20030017715Description:
This paper reports on a program of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) designed to increase awareness of the quality of ABS data, and to educate users about the importance of knowledge of data quality.
Release date: 2005-01-26 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X20010016280Description:
This paper discusses in detail issues dealing with the technical aspects of designing and conducting surveys. It is intended for an audience of survey methodologists.
Survey response rates serve as one key measure of the quality of a data set. However, they are only useful to a statistical agency in the evaluation of ongoing data collections if they are based on a predefined set of formulas and definitions that are uniformly applied across all data collections.
In anticipation of a revision of the current National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) statistical standards, several agency-wide audits of statistical practices were undertaken in the late 1990s. In particular, a compendium documenting major survey design parameters of NCES surveys was drafted. Related to this, NCES conducted a targeted audit of the consistency in response rate calculations across these surveys.
Although NCES has had written statistical standards since 1988, the audit of the reported response rates from 50 survey components in 14 NCES surveys revealed considerable variability in procedures used to calculate response rates. During the course of the response rate audit, the Statistical Standards Program staff concluded that the organization of the 1992 Standards made it difficult to find all of the information associated with response rates in the standards. In fact, there are references to response rate in a number of separate standards scattered throughout the 1992 Statistical Standards.
Release date: 2002-09-12 - Articles and reports: 11-522-X20010016301Description:
This paper discusses in detail issues dealing with the technical aspects of designing and conducting surveys. It is intended for an audience of survey methodologists.
The Integrated Metadatabase is a corporate repository of information for each of Statistics Canada's surveys. The information stored in the Integrated Metadatabase includes a description of data sources and methodology, definitions of concepts and variables measured, and indicators of data quality. It provides an effective vehicle for communicating data quality to data users. Its coverage of Statistics Canada's data holdings is exhaustive, the provided information on data quality complies with the Policy on Informing Users of Data Quality and Methodology, and it is presented in a consistent and systematic fashion.
Release date: 2002-09-12
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