How to access OECD statistical information - an interactive workshop for delegations [e-mail]

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How to access OECD statistical information- an
interactive workshop for delegationslars.thygese
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Contents

• What are the delegations' needs for statistics?
• Dissemination policy and the Statistical
  Information System
• Finding statistics
• Metadata the key to understanding
• How to make visual material from OECD.Stat
• Use of other sources UN, World Bank, national
  sources
• Future

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What are the delegations' needs for statistics?
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Examples of needs ?

• Find one indicator for all OECD countries
• e.g. GDP per capita
• Make a PowerPoint graph?
• Use it for a paper?
• Find a distribution for one or more countries
• e.g. GDP by activity for US....
• e.g. investment in knowledge

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Examples Austria

• FDI
• Commodity trade
• Trade in services

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Dissemination policy and the Statistical
Information System
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Present OECD platforms

• The Statistics Portal www.oecd.org/statistics
• Freely available
• Limited datasets (10)
• Mixed formats
• SourceOECD
• Subscription service
• Free at point of access
• Analytical publications and Beyond 20/20
  databases
• OLIS
• Extranet for government officials
• Free access to statistics data warehouse
  OECD.Stat
• Free access to all publications

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Some trends

• Revenues 4.5 million / year
• Printed statistical publications still in demand
• Cross-domain products OECD Factbook, Country
  Statistical Profiles
• StatLink URL to Excel tables

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What is the Statistical Information System?

• Immense integrated statistical information bank
• Data and metadata can be combined and used over
  and over again, for innumerable outputs
• Horizontal products covering various subject
  matters can be developed at a reasonable cost
• Provided data and metadata are properly
  organised

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SIS Architecture

• 80 of all statistics
• The rest in 2006

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SIS benefits

• Quality
• Harmonisation of concepts
• Improved statistical metadata
• Coherence of data and metadata across datasets
• Dynamic updating
• SDMX
• User friendliness
• One-stop database
• Combine data across themes
• Alternative outputs for different audiences
• Internal Efficiency

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Finding OECD statistics
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Access to OECD.Stat

• Access to the data warehouse restricted
• OECD officials
• government officials through OLIS
• a few datasets on the Internet
• January-September 750,000 downloads
• of which 710,000 Internet use
• 30,000 from OLIS

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Accessing OECD statistics

• OLIS (with a logon)
• horizontal access to all databases and vertical
  access within each database
• targeted at users who have skill and time
• books and publications
• Free on Internet Core Data
• key ready-made tables and sub-sets
• 500-1000 tables and sub-sets
• targeted at expert users and informed lay users
• Statistics Portal
• StatLinks
• e.g. Factbook 2006 p. 115

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Most accessed 2006
DATASET 2006
Country statistical profile 2006 174,201
Country statistical profiles 2005 145,916
1--Gross domestic product 35,578
Reference Series 24,821
Expenditure by funding source and transaction type 14,847
Price indices (MEI) 12,172
Financial indicators MEI 11,031
Main Economic Indicators Archive data and revisions 10,336
Graduates by field of education 10,246
Insurance Indicators 9,623
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Metadata The key to understanding
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Access to metadata

• together with data in OECD.Stat
• well structured
• attachment levels
• independently and freely on www
• MetaStore
• Google for numbers
• easy to find
• deep descriptions

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Making visual material
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Tables or Graphs

• From StatLinks to PPT
• e.g. all Factbook graphs
• From OECD.Stat via Excel to PPT
• anything you like
• Dont fill it too much keep it simple
• Careful with sizes

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Top 10 datasets accessed by OLIS 2006
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Real GDP growth, per cent
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Using other sources
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Where can I find other sources ?

• OECD Statistics Portal, Sources
• UN Demographic Yearbook
• CIA World Factbook

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Future
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Develop infrastructures products

• Develop integrated dissemination
• OECD Statistics
• Branding standardising Core Data
• Develop Figures Facts
• Diversify according to user groups
• Cross-domain products

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New opportunities

• publications can be smaller and more analytically
  focused
• new (and existing) horizontal publications
• integrate SourceOECD with the free dissemination
  of basic statistics
• links between all the different ways statistics
  can be viewed
• go immediately, e.g., from a database query to a
  StatLink or a related analytical e-book
• fixed and dynamic tables can be stored queries to
  OECD.Stat

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Your feed-back

• Did this workshop meet expectations ?
• Should there be another one ?
• Could we have exercises ?
• in a class-room with pcs
• Wishes for contents ?
• Ideas about better access to OECD data ?

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