2. Motivation & Goals of Statistics Austria
High visibility as a result of Maastricht
Traceability and auditability of methods & processes to
meet quality standards
ESA 95 functional requirements (FISIM, constant
prices, quarterly accounts, ...)
Data volume growth strongly suggested the use of a
RDBMS in lieu of flat files and EXCEL spreadsheets
Processing time (elapsed time) up to 45h for mapping
the financial accounts to ESA transactions
A scheduling and process management system to
address the increasing complexity
3. Production of general government sector accounts
Merge sources, Original Data Set
quality checks financial accounts
public institutions
Mapping to
ESA transactions
ESA Transaction
Microdata
Rule sets Selection, grouping
(TKL, SS,..)
Classifications Allocations &
additions ESA Transaction
Workflows
„Data Sets“
Ancillary
Selection of
Datasets Authentic Data Set
final version
Government Sector
Report & table
production,
SuperSTAR
GESMES
4. Scope and expected deliverables
Supports the full scope of the production process
Mapping of government closed accounts to ESA
transactions using rule sets
Estimates, corrections, supplements: a configurable
set of components
Metadata management codes, classifications and rules
Production scheduling and process control
Publication & Dissemination
Implemented using PARADIGMA„s „Interactive Table Framework“
5. Mapping accounts to ENA transactions
Parallel data collection: paper and electronic questionnaire
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6. Scope and expected deliverables
Supports the full scope of the production process
Mapping of government closed accounts to ESA
transactions using rule sets
Estimates, corrections, supplements: a configurable
set of components
Consolidation of NON S.13
Reconciliation with tax income
Consolidation of intergovernmental transfers
Metadata management codes, classifications and rules
Production scheduling and process control
Publication & Dissemination
8. Highlites
Supports the full scope of the production process
Mapping of government closed accounts to ESA
transactions using rule sets
Estimates, corrections, supplements: a configurable
set of components
Metadata management codes, classifications and rules
Transaction codes
NACE, NUTS, PRODCOM, ...
Production scheduling and process control
Publication & Dissemination
11. Highlites
Supports the full scope of the production process
Mapping of government closed accounts to ESA
transactions using rule sets
Estimates, corrections, supplements: a configurable
set of components
Metadata management codes, classifications and rules
Production scheduling and process control
Provides scripts to define workflows
Automatic scheduling of jobs
Event monitoring and documentation
Publication & Dissemination
14. Highlites
Supports the full scope of the production process
Mapping of government closed accounts to ESA
transactions using rule sets
Estimates, corrections, supplements: a configurable
set of components
Metadata management codes, classifications and rules
Production scheduling and process control
Publications & Dissemination
17. Accrued Benefits ...
Significant reductions in the rule application cycle
allow the national accounts experts to try alternative combinations of
methods and to gauge their impact on the results in "quasi-real" time.
Improvement in data quality (consistency and coherence)
statisticians are able to configure and document “check & test” routines
Versioning concept supports auditing of results
Scheduling system enables the traceability of the production process
Pervasive use of consistent metadata within the department
Authentic Data Set concept implemented - homogeneous dataset
for internal as well as external users.
Standardized procedures to access national accounts data for authorized
users.
Reports used produced using the capabilities of SuperWEB
18. The way forward ...
Financial Transactions
STAT has assumed the responsibility to produce the financial ESA
transactions
Improve the integration of yearly and quarterly production
Improve estimation of missing municipal data for quarterly statistics
Use quarterly data to derive annual national accounts
Consider the use of SuperVIEW for dissemination
not restricted to national accounts, but intended to used for a broad
range of statistical results