Dissemination

Statline tool and organisation

André de Boer

Contents

• Statline architecture • General principles• Paper publications• Information services• Website• Statline

Cube Manager

StatLine

Presentationlayer

Storage

Logic

Internet Server

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Cube

Cristal

StatWeb 3.1StatWeb 3.1ArchitectureArchitecture

Internet Browser

Internet

General principles

• Website is the primary instrument of dissemination

• All information on the website is for free• All information free for everyone at the

same time• All regularly published information in

StatLine

Paper publications

• Pressreleases:–250 releases a year–Manuscript by the statistical sector, editors at

the output department–Support of the press by our press office

• Paper publications:–Tendency: More the story behind the figures,

less tables–Less on paper, more on the internet

Information services

• Centralised• Strategy: directing to website• Pay Phone ( 0,50 EUR/Min)• Requests > 5 minutes have to be paid• Use of Webforms and Email management

system

Website

• Maintained at the output department• Primary instrument of dissemination• Statistical part has a thematic structure

(theme pages)• Different methods of accessing the right

data

StatLine

• StatLine as seen by the user• Components of a StatLine matrix• StatLine and www.cbs.nl• Internal organisation

StatLine as seen by the user (1)

• Search facility:– Search phrase gives hit list of tables

(example)• Thematic index

– User can scroll through a map tree of publications

– After selecting a publication, user can select data (example)

StatLine as seen by the user (2)

After selection, the user can:– Modify the selection– Change columns with rows, nesting– Print the table– Save the table in different formats (html, xls,

spss, txt)– Create a hyperlink to the StatLine database

Example

StatLine as seen by the user (3)

• “Size” of StatLine – Publications 1 300– Cells 1 603 000 000 (?)– GB 2.3 (?)– Biggest matrix 878 826 025 cells– Sparsest matrix 0.05 % cells not empty– Update rate 5-15 publications/day

Components StatLine matrix (1)

Structure:• One dimension with at least two subjects ordered

in hierarchical way• 1-6 dimensions with classification variables

(dimension time should come last)• Items of a classification can be grouped in

different ways (example time dimension)

Components StatLine matrix (2)Meta information:• General description of the statistics (example)• For each subject:

– Name– Unit– Explanation (optional)– Keyword (optional)

• For each classification– Explanation (optional)– Keyword (optional)

StatLine and www.cbs.nl (1)• Free (also without identification)• Updated every night (future: every day at 9.30)• Link on homepage to list of updates in previous

week• Different ways of accessing StatLine (next page)

StatLine and www.cbs.nl (2)Access to StatLine on the Web:• “Normal” way (search and thematic index)• Main indicators• Key figures• Web articles• Theme pages (e.g. Labour Market)• ClassificationsAll with the use of active hyperlinks to StatLine

Internal organisation (1)

Executive Board

Division of BusinessStatistics

Division of Social and Spatial Statistics

Division of Macro-economic Statistics and Dissemination

Division of Technologyand Facilities

Dep. 1

Dep. 3

Dep. 4

Dep. 5

Dep. 6

Dep. 2

Dep. 1

Dep. 3

Dep. 4

Dep. 2

Dep. 5

Dep. 1

Dep. 3

Dep. 4

Dep. 2

Publication andCommunications

Methods and Informatics

Dep. 3

Dep. 4

Dep. 5

Dep. 6

ICT

Internal organisation (2)

The statistical departments are responsible for:– Design of matrices (together with the output

department)– Producing data files– Describing the meta data– Building and updating matrices– Quality of the data– Confidentiality of the data

Internal organisation (3)The output department is responsible for:

– Design of matrices (together with the statistical departments)

– Updating matrices in the StatLine dome– Editorial rules– Keywords– Archive of matrices– Management information– Consistency of presentation