the future of Statistical ProductionCSPA

50 task team members

7 task teams

CSPA 2015 project

CSPA 2015 project

The project has three main objectives:• To extend the support offered for the implementation of CSPA

compliant statistical services,• To have a plan in place for continued investment in the development

of CSPA services.• To facilitate the transitioning of CSPA governance from HLG project

governance arrangements

What is CSPA?

We need to modernise

There are many “shaky bridge” platforms: • rigid processes and methods;• inflexible ageing technology;• increasing cost of traditional data collection methods;• inability to quickly respond to emerging information needs;• slow to harness new and alternative sources of data (such

as sensor, satellite); • difficulty in attracting and retaining skilled staff in the

competitive labour market.

In an increasingly digital and data rich environment statistical organizations are struggling to remain relevant.

A modernisation blueprint exists

CSPA provides a reference architecture to help each agency modernisation, based on common standards:• GSBPM• GSIM • DDI / SDMXCSPA allows us to modernise our environment and use existing international solutions.

What is CSPA?

• CSPA provides a template architecture for official statistics, describing:

− What the official statistical industry wants to achieve

− How the industry can achieve this, i.e. principles that guide how statistics are produced

− What the industry will have to do, compliance with the CSPA

Historically, statistical organizations have produced specialized business

processes and IT systems

The problem CSPA solves

Many statistical organizations are modernising and transforming using

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Technology Architecture

Business Architecture

Information Architecture

Application Architecture

Technology Architecture

Business Architecture

Information Architecture

Application Architecture

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Objective 1:Extend the support offered for the implementation of CSPA compliant statistical services

At the end of 2014, there were still

unanswered questions

Too much room for interpretation

2015 Building with a more precise blueprint

Statistics Organisations Environment

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CSPA Logical Information Model

New Services in 2015

Classification retrieval service

Probabilistic record linkage service

Testing

Confidentialised analysis of microdata service

Web dissemination service

2015 project: Expected outputs

1. CSPA v1.52. CSPA Template Guidance3. CSPA Implementation Guidance4. Using the CSPA Logical Information Model5. Logical Information Model Documentation

Sharing in Statistical Modernisation Community

Objective 2: To have a plan in place for continued investment in the development of CSPA services

• A vision for an aligned and collaboratively led community.

• Allows all of us to benefit from collaboration and sharing.• Extending our existing sharing practices to the next level.

• Heads of Organizations agree in principle to sharing and collaborating in the community.

• Organizations contribute as much as they can, in what form they can (capability, funding, etc.)

Sharing in the Community

Knowledge Base

Investment Catalogue

Capability Catalogue

CSPA Service Catalogue

Built in 2015Focus on future sharing

opportunities

Built in 2015Focus on existing sharing

opportunities

Technical Repository

Capability CatalogueBuilt in 2015

Focus on existing sharing opportunities

• A capability enables an organisation to undertake an activity. One capability can enable an organisation to undertake many activities

Method People

Standards and Frameworks

Process Technology

Capability CatalogueBuilt in 2015

Focus on existing sharing opportunities

Why capabilities?• GSBPM doesn’t help us identify where a single investment can impact

multiple production processes• Developing new systems based on GSBPM could lead to duplication of

functionality in business processes• There is a many to many relationship between capabilities and

activities. The more a capability is reused by different activities the more money it saves us.

Sharing of any dimension of a capability can occur with different degrees of maturity.

With more maturity in sharing comes:

• more confidence in the sustainability of things being shared;

• more clarity in roles of providers and consumers of the thing being shared;

• greater visibility of the status of things being shared.

Capability CatalogueBuilt in 2015

Focus on existing sharing opportunities

• Capability Catalogue created for organisations to share existing solutions – not just technology

Capability CatalogueBuilt in 2015

Focus on existing sharing opportunities

Investment CatalogueBuilt in 2015

Focus on future sharing opportunities

• We need to expose investment plans where we are willing to collaborate

• Tailored level of contribution allows every country to participate

Strategic Investment Planning

•Sharing plans between organisations

•Finding partners with similar priorities

•Trialing an Investment Comparison Tool

Investment CatalogueBuilt in 2015

Focus on future sharing opportunities

Investment CatalogueBuilt in 2015

Focus on future sharing opportunities

What we are investing in? What types of investment?

• Statistical organisations already participate in many international engagement activities that facilitate sharing.

• The marginal cost of doing this in a way that supports collaboration and complies with CSPA is relatively low, but the potential savings enabled by such a standard approach are high.

Key Messages

2015 project: Expected outputs6. Catalogue User Guide 7. Investment Catalogue8. Capability Catalogue

Achieving success through HLG projects

Objective 3: To facilitate the transitioning of CSPA

governance from HLG project governance arrangements

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HLG Strategy

"Statistical organizations should create

environments that facilitate the reuse and

sharing of methods, components, processes and data repositories”

HLG 2012

CSPA Assets built 2013 - 2015

• 2013 – Defined the concept and proved it

• 2014 – Proved that we can develop production services and make them visible and available

• 2015 – Address remaining implementation challenges and made the assets sustainable

• Assets:• CSPA – the architecture v1.5• Logical Information Model• Catalogues

Why are these assets important?

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Ongoing CSPA work

• Stream 1: Core governance and maintenance work

• Stream 2: Implementation Support

• Stream 3: Enabling Sharing

Proposed new governance from 2016 onwards

2015 project: Expected outputs1. CSPA v1.52. CSPA Template Guidance3. CSPA Implementation Guidance4. Using the CSPA Logical Information Model5. Logical Information Model Documentation6. Catalogue User Guide 7. Investment Catalogue8. Capability Catalogue9. Updated CSPA brochures and webpage

CSPA Wiki

http://www1.unece.org/stat/platform/display/CSPA

How do I find out more?