| Contact person* | Maja Ledic Blazevic |
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Statistical business process model
he majority of CBS´s statistical surveys are processed in following steps:
- Planning all activities
- Survey design and description
- Data capture and file transfer
- Validity checking against preset rules and producing error-list to be presented to the statistician in charge
- On-line correction
- Tabulation, i.e. producing statistics for statisticians supervision
- Publishing, i.e. producing first releases and other statistics
- Archiving
- Monitoring It should be noted that mentioned steps refer to the processing stage of any particular statistical survey or, in other words, to the statistical survey as seen from the perspective of the IT sector. Mapped to the CMF model, the steps described above fit the model as follows:
Metadata used/created at each phase
Today metadata management is done at several places, but intention is to create one central metadata repository and use a tool for metadata browsing and maintenance that should cover all the aspects of management. Metadata was first collected to fill the repository in metadata sections of organizational structure, general metadata, studies and measurements. There were several sources of metadata for this initialization: Annual Implementation Plan, database about publications, so-called inventory of metadata that was done before going to developing metadata model, etc.
Then metadata is available for other other applications that are part of statistical data production. The most important consumer of metadata is so-called Survey processor application. This is a metadata-driven application for automatic survey processing.
Survey processor is not only a consumer but also a producer of metadata. Metadata is captured during survey processing because it is the natural place where processing metadata is created. This metadata is immediately stored in the central repository. When a survey is processed, then following metadata is created: populations, questionnaires, questions, context variables, matrix variables, matrices, registers, cubes, tables, etc. This metadata can be easily used in metadata management tool to create new versions for next processing periods.
Data processing is the most important one from all phases of statistical business process where metadata is used and created. Initial metadata about surveys for processing phase are prepared in planning phase, but handled in Annual Implementation Plan that is independent from metadata management tools.
Additionally, some metadata are produced in dissemination phase (on publications). Hopefully more metadata will be collected in other phases of business process as the management tools develop in the future.
Metadata relevant to other business processes
Metadata sections Organizational structure contains metadata that could be used for management process. This means that persons who are responsible for specific processes are stored as contact persons for them (not only as contact persons regarding the statistical data and publications). Contact person has a role that can be for example head of department.
Section Access and authorization rules contains metadata that provide control over the access and management of statistical processes. User group has certain privileges that allow to group members to access and run specific process on statistical data.