Moving into the 21st Century:The IMF’s Transition to the to

Web Disseminate Its Statistical Databases

Work Session on Statistical

Dissemination and Communication

Conference of European StatisticiansWashington, D.C. September 12-14, 2006

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“Traditional” products in print & CD-ROMBalance of Payments Statistics Direction of Trade StatisticsGovernment Finance StatisticsInternational Financial Statistics

Online products, different formats IFS (à la the CD-ROM)

International Reserves (static tables) Coordinated Portfolio Investment Statistics (static tables)

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Spring 2005: Studies Commissioned♦ Qualitative Usership Research of traditional products (by

Research Perspectives)

♦ Review of Best Practices for Web Dissemination of Data (by Sabatier Consulting)

Fall 2005: studies completed and results presented to IMF staff

Usership Research Indicated: ♦ Highly user unfriendly ♦ Difficult to search and navigate ♦ Lack of definitions and information on changes ♦ Print publications required to understand data

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Through Summer 2006:

♦ Statistics Department retreat to consider strategies

♦ Introduction of StatisticsQuery@imf.org to respond to content questions

♦ Adoption of Remedy to assign and track queries

♦ Creation of a library of responses to ensure consistency of message and reduce resource requirements

♦ Preparation of a design for an interface based upon best practices of many statistical sites

♦ Selection of tools

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Tasks That Remain:

♦ Designing a user-friendly web site

♦ Determining the extent of metadata

♦ Ensuring effective user support

♦ Selecting a delivery technology

♦ Developing marketing and pricing strategies

A Vision for the Economic Data Warehouse and Future Dissemination

Data

Web Access to

DataWarehous

e

IMF.ORG

Statistics

Portal

Publications

CD ROM

Metadata

Area Depts10+

countries

External Data

OECDMEIINTLINE

ResearchWEO

StatisticsIFS

EXISTING DATA & METADATA

DATA SEARCH &

ELABORATION

Metadata

Plus additionalmetadata

NationalSources

ICS

Validated

Data

Searchable by:

• Topic• Country• Source • Reports

DATAWAREHOUSE

NationalSources

ICS

Rationalized Databases,

Gaps Identified

(disseminate as appropriate)