A key challenge facing managers, IT professionals, architects and methodologists in national and international statistical organisations is how to implement new tools and standards that facilitate sharing and re-use across statistical domains and between statistical organisations.

What is CSPA?

The CSPA has been developed to support this trend, and provide a blue-print for a new way of designing, building and implementing the tools needed to produce official statistics. The modernstats community, that develops and implements CSPA, is associated with the UNECE and Eurostat. Its goal is to support the collaborative development of software services to produce official statistics.

Why should we embrace CSPA?

More rapidly developed capabilities in areas of emerging need.
Drawing together skilled resources from across the international statistical community.
Responding to the challenges of emerging information sources such as big data.
Assisting statistical organizations to modernise by providing a reference architecture.
Reducing costs of production by sharing better practice across the community.
Encouraging interoperability of systems and processes.
Harnessing new challenges and opportunities faster.
Enabling the statistical industry to build common infrastructures and services.