Production of Government Sector AccountsStatistics Austria

1. Production of Government Sector Accounts
Statistics Austria
PARADIGMA, October 2011

2. Motivation & Goals of Statistics Austria
 High visibility as a result of Maastricht
 Traceability and auditability of methods & processes to
meet quality standards
 ESA 95 functional requirements (FISIM, constant
prices, quarterly accounts, ...)
 Data volume growth strongly suggested the use of a
RDBMS in lieu of flat files and EXCEL spreadsheets
 Processing time (elapsed time) up to 45h for mapping
the financial accounts to ESA transactions
 A scheduling and process management system to
address the increasing complexity

3. Production of general government sector accounts
Merge sources, Original Data Set
quality checks financial accounts
public institutions
Mapping to
ESA transactions
ESA Transaction
Microdata
Rule sets Selection, grouping
(TKL, SS,..)
Classifications Allocations &
additions ESA Transaction
Workflows
„Data Sets“
Ancillary
Selection of
Datasets Authentic Data Set
final version
Government Sector
Report & table
production,
SuperSTAR
GESMES

4. Scope and expected deliverables
 Supports the full scope of the production process
 Mapping of government closed accounts to ESA
transactions using rule sets
 Estimates, corrections, supplements: a configurable
set of components
 Metadata management codes, classifications and rules
 Production scheduling and process control
 Publication & Dissemination
Implemented using PARADIGMA„s „Interactive Table Framework“

5. Mapping accounts to ENA transactions
Parallel data collection: paper and electronic questionnaire
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6. Scope and expected deliverables
 Supports the full scope of the production process
 Mapping of government closed accounts to ESA
transactions using rule sets
 Estimates, corrections, supplements: a configurable
set of components
 Consolidation of NON S.13
 Reconciliation with tax income
 Consolidation of intergovernmental transfers
 Metadata management codes, classifications and rules
 Production scheduling and process control
 Publication & Dissemination

7. Estimation and use of supplementary information
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8. Highlites
 Supports the full scope of the production process
 Mapping of government closed accounts to ESA
transactions using rule sets
 Estimates, corrections, supplements: a configurable
set of components
 Metadata management codes, classifications and rules
 Transaction codes
 NACE, NUTS, PRODCOM, ...
 Production scheduling and process control
 Publication & Dissemination

9. Dimension Management
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10. Dimension Management
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11. Highlites
 Supports the full scope of the production process
 Mapping of government closed accounts to ESA
transactions using rule sets
 Estimates, corrections, supplements: a configurable
set of components
 Metadata management codes, classifications and rules
 Production scheduling and process control
 Provides scripts to define workflows
 Automatic scheduling of jobs
 Event monitoring and documentation
 Publication & Dissemination

12. Workflows
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13. Workflow Details
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14. Highlites
 Supports the full scope of the production process
 Mapping of government closed accounts to ESA
transactions using rule sets
 Estimates, corrections, supplements: a configurable
set of components
 Metadata management codes, classifications and rules
 Production scheduling and process control
 Publications & Dissemination

15. Publication using SuperWEB
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16. Publication using SuperWEB
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17. Accrued Benefits ...
 Significant reductions in the rule application cycle
 allow the national accounts experts to try alternative combinations of
methods and to gauge their impact on the results in "quasi-real" time.
 Improvement in data quality (consistency and coherence)
 statisticians are able to configure and document “check & test” routines
 Versioning concept supports auditing of results
 Scheduling system enables the traceability of the production process
 Pervasive use of consistent metadata within the department
 Authentic Data Set concept implemented - homogeneous dataset
for internal as well as external users.
 Standardized procedures to access national accounts data for authorized
users.
 Reports used produced using the capabilities of SuperWEB

18. The way forward ...
 Financial Transactions
 STAT has assumed the responsibility to produce the financial ESA
transactions
 Improve the integration of yearly and quarterly production
 Improve estimation of missing municipal data for quarterly statistics
 Use quarterly data to derive annual national accounts
 Consider the use of SuperVIEW for dissemination
 not restricted to national accounts, but intended to used for a broad
range of statistical results

19. Dissemination using SuperVIEW
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20. Dissemination using SuperVIEW
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21. Rudolf J. Bauer
PARADIGMA Unternehmensberatung
Mariahilfer Strasse 47, 1060 Wien
Tel +43 1 585 49 72 43
Rudolf.Bauer@paradigma.net