Improving cooperation and quality in deliveries from Primary statistics (PS)

to National Accounts (NA)

Roger PetterssonStatistics Sweden

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Key words

• NA= National Accounts

• PS= Primary statistics

• RI= Right Input = Team at NA

• SLA= Service Level Agreements

• Quality Evaluation form

Roger P NR/SESRoger P NR/SES

Aim

• Reliable and user-oriented NA-statistics• Quality declarations of PS for NA’s needs• Improvements if shortcomings• Investigations if something is unclear• Adapted structure of the delivered data• Information describing the delivered data

This should be regulated in SLA’s between NA and PS

Right Input

Task: Develop and preserve methods and tools for communication and cooperation between NA and PS

• Give guiding principles for the work• Supporting those involved• Storing documents• Monitoring the process• Follow up and evaluation meetings• Suggesting products and timetables

• A series of activities that work up a product

• Repeated several times in a similar way.

• A distinctly defined start and end

• Always has an internal or external customer

Process

Statistics production process

Support and infrastructure

Specifyneeds

1

Design and

plan

2

Build and test 3

Collect

4

Process

5

Analyse

6

Disseminate and

communicate 7

Evaluate and feedback8

Mission statement

• Data in an adapted structure to NA • Agreed quality in all quality dimensions• Content and quality shall be sufficient for users’ application of the NA statistics• Discrepancies between NA and PS figures regarding comparability and coherence are explained upon publication• Well developed cooperation• NA and PS Heads must give priority

to the work

Support to the SLAprocess

• Guidelines for the SLAwork• Quality Evaluation Form• Checklist for SLAmeetings (quality meetings)• Yearly document of planned deliveries• Form for SLA• Checklist for follow-up meetings• Mailbox *Right Input

Components in the Quality evaluation form 1

• Information that identifies the source and the part(s) of NAcalculation

16 components about • Population and sampling • Sampling uncertainty • Measurement error and problems • Estimation and processing errors • Summary evaluation of the components

above• Documentation

Components in the Quality evaluation form 2• Revision policy• Knowledge exchange• Preserving Secrecy - publishing level• Timeliness • Quarterly/Yearly data• Previous SLA • Quality change made over time • Cooperation between different Primary statistics • Report on differences between Primary statistics and NA

Quality information – deliveries from PS to NA 1

General information (every year)• Information about population• Changed content of variables,

changed definitions, time series break?• Sampling and sample handling

Quality information – deliveries from PS to NA 2

Information at deliveries • General information (at deliveries)• Break in time series• Changes in samples• Non-response• Random errors• Measurement problems• Estimates• Explanation of big changes• Description of tables

Evaluation of the job

• NA and PS have follow-up meetings about content in the SLA and the process

• RI and those at NAdepartment responsible for the SLA have a yearly follow-up meeting about the process

• RI and the heads for NAunits have follow-up meetings

• The result of the job is presented for the internal council for NA