Nordic Statistical Meeting 26.-28.8.2019, Helsinki

1. Concepts – Making the complexed
simple
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2. Concepts to-be
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Website Statbank
Output database
Document
ation of
Statistics
Concepts
container
Colectica
Other publications

3. Concepts as-is
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Website Statbank
Output database
Document
ation of
Statistics
Colectica
”Concepts
database”

4. Conclusions
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• Scope
• Competences
• System
• Reuse of organisation

5. QA cycle
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Edit mode
QA mode
Changes made
by subject
matter
responsible
Return to
QA
Approved by
QC
Disseminated at
www.dst.dk (by
subject matter
responsible)

6. Plan for 2019
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Plan for future work
on Concepts
2020
Implementing
concepts in
Colectica
Operations
QA of excisting
concepts
2018 2019
Developing
operations
organisation
Working group
IT
Dissemination
Quality / Operations organisation
Developing
interfaces
Developing
competences
Manual I
Developing
dissemination
tools
Manual III
Manual
II
Require
-ments
specifi-
cation
Re-
view

7. What is a concept?
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Concept Variable
Philosophical
Describes reality
Idea, ideally
Orthography:
Ofte written in lowercase
Technical
Describes elements in statistics
Specific
Orthography:
Often written in uppercase,
shortened
Example from DST:
Civilstand (Marital status)
Example from DST:
CIVST

8. Thank you!
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