ESIS

ESCWA Statistical Information System

ESCWAfor regional integration

Information and Communication Technology Division

Capacity-Building Workshop on Information Society Measurements:Core Indicators, Statistics, and Data CollectionBeirut, 7-10 June 2005

Content

• What is ESIS

• Main features

• Why ESIS

• Main dimensions

• Samples

• Live demonstration

What is ESIS?

• System for storing and retrieving selected statistical indicators for a specified group of countries/regions and a specified time series

• Incorporates a core database, which is accessed by both a desktop software product and an on-line web-based interface

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Main features

•Bilingual (English and Arabic)

•Common tools for data entry, reporting and analysis

•Common interface leading to a consistent look and feel

•Available to ESCWA staff and member states

•Web based with secure access control

•Single repository of customized and comparable data for all substantive divisions

•Flexible, definable, and modifiable data structure

Software development platform

• MS SQL Server

• VB programming language

• MS Excel

• ASP.net

Why do we need ESIS?• Improved availability, accessibility and usage

of national and regional data and information in socio-economic fields

•Sharing of data

•Control of redundant information

•Better data security

•Improved data integrity

•Possibility of concurrent access

•Publishing facilities, comparison and analysis

System main dimensions

• Indicators (organized into Modules, Categories and Sub-categories)

• Countries/Regions

• Years

Time

Country /region

Indicator

T1

T3

T2

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I1

I2

I3

D1(I1,C2,T2)

Modules as modeled in the ESIS

IndicatorsGrouping Indicators into Modules/Categories/Sub-Categories:

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Cc

SCaa SCab

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Ic.1

Ic.2

Iaa.1 Iaa.2 Iab.x

•A module is an organized collection of indicators/statistics

•A Category [C] should group

none, one or more than one Sub-Category [SC]

•An Indicator [I] should belong to only one category or Sub-Category

•A Derived indicator is calculated from other indicators

Indicators properties

• Definition

• Type (Number or Text)

• Unit (Number, Percentage, Currency…)

• Regional (Total or Average)

• Default scale factor

• Deriving new indicators (construct a function)

Sample of an organized set of indicators

ICT module

Telecom Infrastructurecategory

UNDP - Technology achievement index

ITU – Digital Access Index (DAI)Cellular mobile subscribers per 100

Main telephone lines operation per 100

Related indicescategory

Cable subscribers

UNCTAD - ICT diffusion index

Indicators as modeled in the ESIS

Countries/Regions

C2

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Rn

C1

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C4

Rc

Grouping Countries into Regions

•A Region [R] could exist as a group of countries or as a standalone entity

•A Country [C] could belong to one or more region/s or exist as a standalone entity

C3

Countries/Regions in the ESIS(22 countries, 13 group)

ESCWA member states

• Bahrain

• Egypt

• Iraq

• Jordan

• Kuwait

• Lebanon

• Oman

• Palestine

• Qatar

• Saudi Arabia

• Syria

• United Arab Emirates

• Yemen

Other Arab states•Algeria•Comoros•Djibouti•Libya•Mauritania•Morocco•Somalia•Sudan•Tunisia

Regions/Groups•Arab States [AS]•ESCWA•GCC•MENA•Middle East•Non GCC ESCWA countries•Non-OAPEC Arab Countries•OAPEC•World•World High Income countries•World Low Income countries•World Lower Middle Incomecountries•World Upper Middle Incomecountries

Countries/Regions as modeled in ESIS

Time

T1

Tf4T2

Tn

T3 Tf5

T4

T5

•A Time dimension could be a “year” or a “period”

•A base year should be specified

•Time forecast

Time as modeled in the ESIS

Result preview

Result in EXCEL

Chart (1)

Chart (2)

Chart (3)

Live Demonstration

ESIS Reporting Engine

Data management

• Inserting individual new values (one by one)

• Process automatic export from EXCEL

• Process automatic regions’ aggregation (individual or mass)

• Process automatic indicators’ derivation (individual or mass)

• Forecasting values

Meta data management

• Specify Notes on the data point level

• Specify Sources on the data point level

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Add countries/regions

Add Modules/categories/indicators

Add years

Update the three dimensions

Databaseadministration

Add new users and assignroles and permissions

Data entry

Manual

Meta datamaintenance

Query the database and produce reports

Computed NotesSources

EDP

Administrators from substantive divisions

Data managers from substantive divisions

Public

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