National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics (INEGI)

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Implementation of SDMX in Mexico

• National Institute of Statistics, Geography and
  Informatics (INEGI)

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ROLES OF INEGI

• INEGI is a federal office that coordinates the
  production, standardization and dissemination of
  all statistical and geographical information of
  national interest
• Main producer of statistical and geographical
  information of Mexico
• Coordinator of other statistical information
  production Units

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REASONS TO ADOPT SDMX IN MEXICO

• Practical for many projects
• Provides tools to improve statistical data and
  metadata exchange

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IMPLEMENTATION KEY FACTORS

• Publicity of the standard
• Comprehension of the standard
• Perception of usefulness
• Adoption by a big enough group
• Multidisciplinary approach
• Application to real projects

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EXPERIENCE OF IMPLEMENTATION

• Development of a common base of knowledge about
  the standard
• Meetings about the initiative
• Conceptual workshops
• Technical workshops
• Application on small projects to test the concept
• Simple applications
• Only basic parts of the standards
• Use of generic structures provided by the
  standard
• Evaluation of the project
• Dissemination of the results
• Incorporation to more complex projects

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CURRENT PROJECTS

• Exchange of economical information with Bank of
  Mexico and SHCP (Federal Treasure Department)
• Web service for querying of information in SDMX
  from the indicators database (Statistical Data
  Warehouse)
• Website for statistical information exchange with
  OECD

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WEBSERVICE FOR INFORMATION EXCHANGE AMONG BANK OF
MEXICO, SHCP AND INEGI
INEGI
SHCP BANK OF MEXICO .NET Client Java Client
Web Services server
Database server
Firewall
Internet
Different platforms support
Bank of Economical Indicators (BIE)
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EXTRACTION OF INFORMATION FROM THE STATISTICAL
DWH AS SDMX FILES
User
DWH Indicators Database (Data and Metadata)
Web Application Selection of indicators
Web Service Makes the query of the time series on
SDMX format
Indicators IDs
Intranet
SDMX file
Oracle database server
Web Services server OAS10.1.3
Java Client
Receives an XML file to use it as needed
Java
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WEBSITE FOR INFORMATION EXCHANGE WITH
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

• By now, we are working on the exchange of
  statistical information with OECD
• The Website is part of the SISNIEG (The
  Information System of the National System of
  Statistical and Geographical Information)
• Its a mean of coordination among Mexican
  statistical information production units
• Collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign
  Affairs of Mexico (SRE)
• Our contribution to the NAWWE project is being
  developed and will be part of the site

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IMPLEMENTATION STAGES

1. Integration of data from the different government
   offices in the site using existing formats
2. Gradual transformation of the information to SDMX
   formats
3. Development of web services to automate the
   information exchange

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LOGIN SCREEN
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MAIN SCREEN
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INFORMATION UPLOAD
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INFORMATION UPLOAD (RECORDS)
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DISSEMINATION AND RETRIEVAL
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ARCHIVE
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ACHIEVEMENTS

• The areas of statistical information production
  from INEGI have been capacitated on basic SDMX
  issues
• 23 offices have already a login and a password
  to deposit information
• About 60 persons from 30 federal offices have
  been trained on SDMX issues
• Conceptual aspects
• Transformation of indicators to SDMX ML compact
  model
• Some producers have started to put information in
  the site
• Some of this information has been converted to
  SDMX files already

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INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR THE NATIONAL SYSTEM OF
STATISTICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION (SISNIEG)

• It will be a nationwide system that will support
• Production of statistical and geographical
  information
• Coordination of Mexican information producers
• Dissemination of statistical and geographical
  information of national relevance providing easy
  access mechanisms
• Promotion statistical and geographical
  information use and knowledge
• Information safeguard
• SDMX has been adopted as part of its
  technological architecture
• The website for international information
  exchange is part of this system

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Logical Networks of the Mexican Statistical and
Geographical System
INEGIs Repository to Public Service Information
Collaborative Network
Network of Public Information Service
Mexican Statistical and Geographical Information
Services Portal
Collaborative Portal of the Mexican Statistical
and Geographical System
Collaboration and Information Exchange Systems
Dissemination Systems
International Information Exchange Network
Historical Information Network
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DESCRIPTION OF OUR APPROACH

• Awareness of the standard and development of
  skills
• Development of projects
• Addition of new adopters
• Return to the first step

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PROCESS KEY DRIVERS

• Collegiate teams (participation of people from
  statistics, technologies, etc. and from
  institutions with different attributions)
• Perceived utility
• Capacity development (task force, skills, etc.)
• No added costs (the standard is part of the
  projects that we already need to develop)
• Make the standard adoption very easy to follow
  (gradual adoption, incremental projects,
  structures designed from simple to complex, from
  simple files to elaborated systems)

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FUTURE OF SDMX IN INEGI

• Development of the SISNIEG
• New agreements with other Mexican Institutions to
  establish electronic information exchange
  projects
• Addition of NAWWE information
• Evolution of the international information
  exchange site

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CONCLUSIONS

• Sharing of gained experience on SDMX
  implementation with other organizations is
  helpful to improve our development processes.
• Its difficult to find information like
  internationally agreed Data Structure Definitions
  and Code lists for certain domains. A repository
  with this information would be very useful.
• Implementation of SDMX is not only about
  technological issues.
• We need documentation suitable for people from
  different backgrounds.
• Existing documents like the content oriented
  guidelines and the implementation guides are
  useful, but we also need some executive papers
  focused on persuading high levels of the
  organizations to support this initiative.
• SDMX is a set of standards in a maturation
  process that has been evolving.
• SDMX is robust enough to be considered as a
  technological driver to support big statistical
  projects that involve information exchange.

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QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS

• Contact
• Juan Muñoz López
• Juan.Munoz_at_inegi.gob.mx