(Feedback from GSBPM Revision group; 3 April, 2018)

It was proposed to replace "units" in GSBPM sub-process 5.5. with "statistical unit". 

In GSIM, there is no "statistical unit" but only Unit exists, Do we need to be more specific and have "statistical unit" in GSIM?

See, GSBPM Revision Issue #9 for more detail.

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  1. Alistair Hamilton

    05 Jun, 2018

    Informally our implementation has increasingly had to differentiate between "statistical units" and "operational units" (eg an organisational unit to which we send a questionnaire to report not literally on itself but on (eg) some subset of its operations).  The requirement also comes up to some degree when we reuse "useful GSIM building blocks" (such as RV and Data Structures) to refer to (eg) process metrics that are about processes more than about statistical units but inform statistical quality assessments (and statistical business process improvement).

    In that way it would limit ABS if it were said that Unit / Unit Type in GSIM 1.1 in future can only relate to "pure" statistical units.  Subtyping Unit / Unit Type would be OK for us ("statistical" vs "operational"/"other") although I am not certain it is required in the conceptual model (vs in practical implementation)?      

  2. InKyung Choi

    06 Jun, 2018

    Meeting 6 June

    Agreed not to introduce the distinction at conceptual level in GSIM (can be considered to do at implementation level, maybe include some text in LIM document)