Nordic Statistical Meeting 26.-28.8.2019, Helsinki

1. Income Generating Activities and its role
in National Statistical Organisations
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2. What are Income Generating Activities
• Statistical products or related services that are
not financed by public provision
• Statistical Products or services that we can
produce, and that are methodologically sound
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3. What we offer
• Population
• Variables
• Geografical levels
Tailormade and
standardized
aggregated data
based on...
• For Researchers,
analysis (broader
group), ministries ao.
Microdata
• Surveys
• Sampling optimationSurveys
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4. Why we do it?
Introduced into the mandate in 1966
with the objective of:
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Bring data to its
maximum use for
society and
Ensure financial
sustainability of the
same

5. Continuously Challenged Area
• Should data not always be free?
• Is it to much of a risk financially?
• Should a public institution be on the private market?
• Hence should we even have IGA?
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6. Questions that we’ve asked
‘To what extent do the main benefits
of privately financed Income
Generating Activities outweigh the
threats of the same and support
these as a central element in the
business of a National Statistical
Organization’.
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7. Putting data to its maximum use
A market is served that would not
otherwise have been served
Methodological Improvements and
new developments
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8. Putting data to its maximum use
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9. Putting data to its maximum use
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- In 2018 754 customers where served
- With more than 3000 individual services
- Other PSI directive
- Increased economic activity
- Improved API solutions
- Growth in data market
- Improved AI development
- Barriers to markets (SME’s)
- Barrier to growth

10. Putting data to its maximum use
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- New statistical products that
would not have been produced
otherwise
- New methodological
improvements example data
warehouse
- Bias towards private financing?

11. Financial sustainablity and turnover
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- Turnover
- Man-years
- Services
- Balancing
- Risks and vulnerabilities
- Balance between public
and private

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New Strategy 2019-2022

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Increased demand and a lack of capacity
to answer it
Increased demand for microdata
Demand for data-cooperation rather that
just data production
Increased access to Big Data
Demand for avoiding adverse market
effects
Data security
Increased transparency
Challenges for balancing and financial
risks

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SO1. Innovation in
services and products
SO2. Increase
transparency and
create effective
processes
SO3. Strengthening
common marketing
SO4. Strengthening
of internal
cooperation
SO5. Stronger
liaising with
customers and
stakeholders

15. Thank you!
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