"http://www.countrystat.org The presentation explains about publishing data in countrystat."

1. Data of Core Module (1)
Statistics Pillar (Concepts, Definitions and Classifications)

2. Data of Core Module (2)

3. In detail: indicators of production domain (Core Module)

4. http://countrystat.org/country/KEN/contents/docs_content/metadata_en.pdf
Statistics Pillar (Concepts and Definitions)

5. Tool to publish the data and metadata
according to the framework (CS-PUBLISHER)
 CS-Publisher allows the publication of the data
according to national and international standards
CS-Publisher is the Tool providing the
primary entry point for:
 Managing your national CountrySTAT website
 Creating and publication of statistical tables
 Web dissemination of official statistics
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CS-PUBLISHER

6. PUBLISHING DATA IN CountrySTAT: CS-PUBLISHER
First step : Access CS-Publisher
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Click on
“Login”

7. First step : Access CS-Publisher
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Connect as national admin
(which has most rights)
User and password are the
same: [country ISO code], for
instance for Kenya, user and
password are KEN/ken
Then click “LOGIN”
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8. User-names are the ISO codes
UAE – ARE
Sultanate of Oman – OMN
Kingdom of Bahrain – BHR
State of Kuwait – KWT
State of Qatar - QAT
Kindgom of Saudi Arabia - SAU
The password is the same ISO code in LOWER
CASE
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9. you get to this interface
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National admin has
access to most
functions
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10. How to get a template
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Download a
template by
clicking on
the icon
Open upload
interface
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11. Once downloaded on your computer, open it in Excel and fill
the sheets. Save it:
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A template contains several
worksheets for one domain,
each sheet corresponding to
an indicator.

12. • To recap: to publish a table you use CS-
Publisher  5 steps
1. Download an Excel template;
2. Input data;
3. Upload Excel file in CS-Publisher;
4. Add metadata;
5. Save (and publish) the file
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13. CS-Publisher
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CountrySTAT
web site
tables
database
CS-
Publisher
INTERNAL PUBLIC
Authorized users
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14. What happen if you dont find
in the templates the table you
want?
Creating a 2-Dimensions
Excel table
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15. Title
Name of the
1° dimension
Name of the
2° dimension
Codes of the
2° dimension
Values for the 1°
dimension
Values
Add
columns if
needed
Add rows
if needed
•The table has two dimension: Year and Indicator.
•Year has 4 values: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008.
•Indicator has 2 values with codes associated: [512] Male, [513] Female.
•When a dimension has codes the name of the dimension must be
repeated:
the values at the first place are ALWAYS the codes, the second ones are
the names
Values for the 2°
dimension
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16. • What are the constraints?
CountrySTAT is a very flexible system BUT if
you have multidimensional data, it must follow
Cube model.
• Cube definition:
It's a data matrix built according to hierarchical
dimensions. This matrix can be reduced to an
unit matrix containing unique variables.
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17. • The cube:
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• 3 dimensions=variables:
Country, crop and year.
• Each cell is a unique
trinomial
country/crop/year.
• For instance, 3200 is the
value of the unique
combination of Country
= France, crop= wheat
and year= 1999.
1^ dimension: crop
2^ dimension: year
3^ dimension: country
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How to build a 3-dimensions table
for CountrySTAT
Cell A1: title
Cell A2: year
Cells A3 and B3: adm
level (codes and
names)
Cells C3 and D3:
product (codes
and names)
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19. Example of 4-dimensions table ready to be
published in CountrySTAT
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20. Important rules for creating tables
FLAGS
• Category not applicable = “.” Data for these categories do not even
hypothetically exist and/or data included in another category
• Data not available = ”..” and “...” Missing data (data exist but were not
collected)
• Not for publication = “:” Confidential data
• Nil = ”- “ absolute zero (data is equal to zero)
• Estimated value = “e”
• Provisional or preliminary figure = “*”
• Less than 0.5 of unit employed = “0” Insignificant data
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21. Important rules for creating tables
The Excel spreadsheet must be formatted as text
The title of the Excel file should NOT contain any accent
and/or symbol
Delete empty lines
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22. Important rules for creating tables
NEVER use coma or full stop for separating the thousands
e.g. one thousand: NO 1.000 NO 1,000 YES 1000
Use always full stop for separating decimals
e.g. three dot four: NO 3,4 YES 3.4
In each cell only the number
e.g. two tons: NO 2 tons YES 2  in the space called
“unit” in the metadata
section write tons
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 Exercise 2: using the templates
www.countrystat.org/NamibiaTraining
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