The High Level Group for the Modernisation of Official Statistics (HLG MOS) sponsored projects on Data Integration in 2016 and 2017. The following countries and organisations participated in the projects: Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, United Kingdom, and Eurostat.
The guide uses information gained from national and international statistical organisations and from other data integration work completed or in progress, to provide practical advice and information to advance data integration activities by statistical organisations.
The guide is relevant to managers, statisticians, methodologists, ICT professionals and other staff in statistical organisations who are using, or planning to use, data integration in the production of official statistics.
It provides information about issues that statistical organisations have or should consider in work on data integration. This information can be used to:
- Speed up development of data integration strategies and practices
- Support consideration of factors that may not have been otherwise considered
- Encourage joint approaches or reduce redevelopment of work already done within the official statistics community
- Find examples of similar work done in other statistical organisations for specific statistical domains or using specific technologies, methods or approaches.