Transcript Work Session on Statistical MetadataSession III: Metadata in the Statistical Business Process Better documenting statistical business processes: The Euro process metadata structure.

Work Session on
Statistical Metadata
2013
Session III: Metadata in
the Statistical Business
Process
Better documenting
statistical business
processes: The Euro
process metadata
structure
Introduction
Business process integration and modernization of
official statistics is of major concern for many
statistical organizations around the world.
References: Modernization strategy of the HLG or
the so-called ESS vision calling for process and
product re-design/improvements.
Necessary precondition: technical and statistical
standards as well as shared IT applications need to
be available and ready for implementation in
statistical processes.
Introduction
Another necessary pre-condition:
A standard documentation of statistical business
processes needs to be made available documenting
these processes with sufficient details;
Such as standard documentation can also be
considered as a metadata structure definition to be
used for documenting all the processes by all
statistical business process manager.
The ESMS and the ESQRS
Two standard metadata structures are already in use in the
European Statistical System:
The Euro SDMX Metadata
Structure (ESMS)
The ESS Standard Quality
Reports Structure (ESQRS)
Standard reference metadata
structure
Standard metadata structure for
detailed quality reports
Used for exchange, production
and dissemination
Used for exchange and
production
21 main concepts documenting
the statistics disseminated, data
quality for user, basics on data
processing
13 main concepts detailing the
ESMS quality concepts further
(for producer oriented quality
reports)
Broadly in use at Eurostat and in
the ESS
More and more used at Eurostat
and in the ESS
The ESMS, the ESQRS and the EPMS
Beside these two ESS metadata structures we added a third
one: the Euro Process Metadata Structure:
All three ESS metadata structure are kept fully consistent. The
ESMS can be considered as first level structure; the ESQRS
and the EPMS provide more details on certain ESMS concepts.
The Euro Process Metadata Structure (EPMS)
The Euro Process Metadata Structure details in particular the
statistical concepts related to data processing, data validation,
dissemination and IT applications. The EPMS is only designed
for use at Eurostat.
The EPMS mapped to the GSBPM
EPMS
How does the EPMS facilitate business process
integration and the use of shared services?
Some actions envisaged for Eurostat:
• Analyze in detail the data validation done by Eurostat and
by Member states and reduce double validations;
• Define and develop further shared services for data
validation which can be executed by Member states (i.e.
Eurostat only receives validated data in accordance to
agreed validation rules);
• Analyze some additional process steps (such as data
aggregation,
confidentiality
treatment
or
seasonal
adjustment) and define shared services for those process
steps (based on statistical standards and shared IT
applications);
• Analyze the IT applications used at Eurostat and plan their
rationalization and integration.
Towards an ESS Process Metadata Structure
EPMS for the ESS
Towards an ESS Process Metadata Structure
National Statistical Institutes manage all steps of the GSBPM.
Therefore an extended metadata structure for documentation
of national statistical business processes is needed.
The ESS Process Metadata Structure:
• needs to provide more details on the GSBPM step 2:
design, step 3: build and step 4: collect as mainly
micro-data processing will be concerned;
• needs also to document the GSBPM steps 5: process;
step 6: analyze and 7: disseminate;
• needs to provide more information on those concepts
where shared services probably can be used between
Member states or between Eurostat and Member states.
A preliminary draft of an ESS-PMS structure is shown in the
document. More detailed concepts need to be added.
Conclusion
In order to progress with the business process integration in
the ESS and with the definition and provision of shared
services in the ESS, Eurostat defined the Euro Process
Metadata Structure used for documenting the internal
statistical business processes at Eurostat.
Some concrete actions were launched for using the EPMS
information for process integration.
For further process integration with Member states, we also
need to define a standard process metadata structure for
national statistical business processes.