National Statistics Offices

National Statistics Offices are faced with challenges that go beyond the historical requirements of providing timely and accurate information services to the end users of their data.

National Statistics Offices need to make more data available, and faster. And they need to disseminate this greater amount of data to their internal and external users, who require self-service access. This poses the challenge of  how to manage the dissemination process without threats to privacy and disclosure.

Further, there is a growing group of users who are ‘Prosumers’. This is an emerging type of user who requires access to data that is easy to understand, so they can then communicate it to existing users.

SuperSTAR's visualization and interactive web-publishing products provide new opportunities for National Statistics Offices to meet their users' needs.

Solutions for All Types of Users

Solutions must meet the needs of analysts, statisticians, researchers, academics, knowledge workers, the public and the broader community.

Each group or persona has different requirements:

Producers — internal users who collect and analyze microdata or unit record or survey data, and generate formatted reports, graphs, and maps for use by others.

Prosumers — perform the information analysis and participate in the informed decision making process or are the story tellers that explain the data.

Consumers — external users who use reports, graphs, and maps for informed decisions operating or policy making.

Population Census

Space-Time Research has been involved in census processing since 1986 and has developed a comprehensive range of solutions designed to assist many National Statistic Offices with their censuses quality, processing, and dissemination. All solutions are characterized by ease of use, speed, and safety. The solutions include:

• data validation and quality checking
• batch production of standard tables
• ad hoc tabulation of census results
• dissemination of results to end users.

SuperSTAR Simplifies All Census Phases

National Statistic Offices use SuperSTAR in the following phases of a census:

1. Evaluating questionnaire trials — Run check tables against census trials; nest or sub-nest fields in a table; recode fields; create derived (synthetic) fields; calculate totals, percentages and averages; view cells; view common statistics; export cells.


2. Collecting for data validation / Post enumeration surveys analysis — Tabulate survey results after they are loaded to check results including relationships between variables, spatial relationships, and summary statistics.


3. Producing tables — Set up tables in advance, and then tabulate in batch once the census master file is ready.


4. Responding to ad hoc queries — Quickly respond to government and public requests for ad hoc census tables. Apply Duty of Care functions and advanced confidentiality routines to preserve confidentiality.


5. Disseminating data to the public via the Internet — Tailor the dissemination method to provide the appropriate level of information and interaction for public users.

The Census Clock is Ticking

As the count down towards the census approaches National Statistical Offices need to be thinking about their Census collection, processing and dissemination process well in advance of the census night.

SuperSTAR can be used in Census questionnaire trials, during collection for data validation, to analyse post enumeration surveys, for table production, ad hoc query response and to disseminate data to the public via the internet.

Census Timeline

Space-Time Research's Census Clients

Some of the NSOs that Space-Time Research has assisted with their censuses are:

• Office for National Statistics, United Kingdom
• US Census Bureau
• Australian Bureau of Statistics - 2006 CDATA Online
• Statistics New Zealand
• Statistics Austria
• Statistics Sweden
• Statistics Finland
• Statistics Norway
• OFS, Switzerland
• Russian Federal Statistical Office

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