xml-publication in finnish labour force survey (lfs)
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XML-publication in Finnish Labour Force Survey (LFS). ESTP training course on “Data Dissemination and Publication of Statistics” Madrid, 3.-5.3.2008 Kalle Sinivuori ([email protected]). Finnish Labour Force Survey. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
XML-publication in Finnish Labour Force Survey (LFS)
ESTP training course on “Data Dissemination and Publication of Statistics” Madrid, 3.-5.3.2008
Kalle Sinivuori ([email protected])
5.3.2008 2Kalle Sinivuori
Finnish Labour Force Survey
It is a continuous panel survey based on a sample of about 12,000 persons per month.
Sampling units : individuals Field interviewers collect the LFS data using computer aided
telephone interviews (Blaise) The data is available approximately three to four weeks from
the reference time period. Periodicity of the results: monthly, quarterly and annually Monthly press release, www-tables and -figures, pdf- and
paper publication.
5.3.2008 3Kalle Sinivuori
Revision of the publication process (LFS) - background
Revision of the statistical production system in 2002-2006 => Shift from the oldest technology to the latest technology => From mainframe to open environment
Need to change the publication process as well Old publication process was ‘clumsy’ : troublesome to
update and based on mainframe.
5.3.2008 4Kalle Sinivuori
Revision of the publication process in context of Statistics Finland
Production model project in years 2003-2006 => New production model of Statistics Finland
New XML-based publication process was defined and tools for new publication process were selected (=> but not implemented).
CoSSI: Common Structure of Statistical Information => Based on fact: statistical information has a certain simplifiable and acceptable universal structure ; www.stat.fi/cossi
5.3.2008 5Kalle Sinivuori
Reasons to use XML=> from Final Report of Production model -project
Possibility to add distribution channels without changing the publication process
Independence of (certain) software's ~ XML is suitable format for archiving statistical information XML makes possible wide-ranging metadata to describe
statistical information and statistical publications XML creates good possibilities for integration between
different applications
5.3.2008 6Kalle Sinivuori
Web-sitePublication production(Monthly & quarterly publ,
publication tables...)
FastWeb
-Timercontrolled
Databaseservices
StatFinDatabase
HTML
Paper
Publi-
cation
Publicationeditor
Word, Excel,
Statisticalapplication
Mainframe
Automaticalpublishing
-Timercontrolled
Excel-manually
and- automaticly
Conversionto PDF
LFS - LFS - oldold dissemination process dissemination process
www.stat.fi
Stat Build
Excel-manually and- automaticly
Word:- Conversionto HTML
5.3.2008 7Kalle Sinivuori
What we need(ed)
More and better metadata Language versions All information in a single file Archiving Automatical conversion to different dissemination channels Structured searches To add new dissemination channels
5.3.2008 8Kalle Sinivuori
/ XML based dissemination process – XML and PC-Axis
PX-Web:PC-Axis tables
Publishingand
preview
FastWeb-XML
Conversion
Databaseservices
PX-Web
HTML
RSS,SDMX
Disseminationdatabase
eXist,XML-
database
Statisticalapplication
SAS -> PX&CoSSI
SuperStar -> PX&CoSSI
PX-Edit -> PX&CoSSI
Publicationeditor
Arbortext
Monthly & quarterly publ, publication tables...)
Metadata:
- statistical metadata- classifications
- processingmetadata
eXist,XML-
database
Web-site
www.stat.fi
HTML
RSS,SDMX
.PX .P
X .PX .P
X
Printinghouse
5.3.2008 9Kalle Sinivuori
LFS New publication processstarted from may 2007
5.3.2008 10Kalle Sinivuori
PX-Web:matrices(PXML)
Publishingand
preview
FastWeb-XML
Conversion
Databaseservices
PX-Web
HTML
RSS,SDMX
Disseminationdatabase
eXist,XML-
database
Statisticalapplication
SAS -> PX&CoSSI
SuperStar -> PX&CoSSI
PX-Edit -> PX&CoSSI
Publicationeditor
Arbortext
Monthly & quarterly publ, publication tables...)
Metadata:
- statistical metadata- classifications
- processingmetadata
eXist,XML-
database
Web-site
www.stat.fi
HTML
RSS,SDMX
.xml
.xml
/ XML based dissemination process – integration completed
Printinghouse
5.3.2008 11Kalle Sinivuori
Future of XML-publishing in Statistics Finland
So far 39 statistics have implemented SAS to XML -publishing process, which was developed in LFS.
During 2008 most of the statistics (about 200 in Statistics Finland) are implementing xml-publishing.
For technical details:ask [email protected] (Head of IT-development/ Dissemination)
[email protected] (Technical expert / )[email protected] (Head of the Data
Dissemination sect.)