Thai Government Statistical Data Integration and Geospatial Information
Workshop on Data Dissemination and Communication
Manila, the Philippines,20-22 June 2012
Tanes Komolvipart
National Statistical Office : Thailand
21 June 2012
Overview
1. National Statistical Office
2. Thai Government Statistical Data Integration
3. Geospatial Information
National Statistical Office (NSO)
The NSO is the statistical information center for the whole
country while provincial offices also exist and act as information
centers the provinces. Data available in the centers not only of
data produced by the NSO but that those produced by other
government agencies as well.
The NSO's major users include the Office of the National
Economic and Social Development Board, the Ministry of Labour
and Social Welfare, the Ministry of Public Health, the Ministry of
Agriculture and Cooperatives, the Bank of Thailand and
international organizations such as ILO etc.
Roles and responsibilities of statistical organizations
 NSO
• Produce fundamental statistics (Survey / Censuses;
population, agriculture, industry)
• Provide statistical services for public and private sectors :
statistical data and statistical technical advice (standard)
• Coordinate with other statistical units at national and
international levels
• Preparing the Statistical Master Plan for implementation of
the government statistical work
 Other statistical units in line-ministries
• Produce statistics from administrative data / reported data
• Provide specific statistics by surveys for their own
purposes
Statistical Information Service and Data Dissemination
• Preliminary and final reports on Census and Survey
• Journal of statistics, statistical yearbooks, provincial statistical
reports, regional statistics reports (in the form of CD-ROM,
Reports)
• Self access via Statistical Information Searching System
• Data Warehouse
• Internet through web site http://www.nso.go.th
• Geographical Information System (GIS)
• Micro Data
And Other Service on Statistical Techniques and Standards
• Provides advisory services in terms of data collection procedure,
statistical techniques and computer processing system to the
government agencies and private organization.
• Conducts a number of training courses related to statistical
techniques and data processing annually
Thai Government Statistical Data Integration
National Information Center (NIC) is established by
National Statistical Office (NSO) as a data administration in
order to collect, compile and integrate statistics data from
all government agencies into an information network in
which data and information could be linked and exchanged
among producers and users of the information, in order to
facilitate the policy formulation, the management, and the
development of the country.
How to Statistical Data Integration from Government Agency
1. Monitoring the importance situation or Hot issue
2. Specify the issues to be analyzed presented
3. Find a list of statistical data exchange system
4. Data analysis
5. Dissemination of information
Government Statistical Data Integration
Education strategy / policy / situations / problems that are of current interest
Find a list of
Specify the
Monitoring the
importance situation
issues to be
or hot issue
analyzed
statistical
data
importance
situation
or hot issue
- Analyze data
related to the issue
-
Analysis of user
requirements
- Classification of
the user
-
system.
-
Specify the issues
to be analyzed
presented
-
- Education of the
research or
theories related to
the issue
- Analysis of the
variable involved
and support the
issue
Dissemination of
information
exchange
presented
- Monitoring the
Data analysis
-
Check the
statistics from
government
agencies
Coordinate
requests for
statistical data
from the owner.
- The analysis
results in a format
such as.
- Analysis report
- Chart
- Table
- Article
Convert the
statistical data in
the same format
Policy-makers , Executive , Students , People
- Present analysis
results in a format
such as
- Analysis report
- Chart
- Table
- GIS
Via NSO website
Example
• Topic of Interest : People who live under poverty line
1. Analysis of the variable involved and support the issue
-Core factor : Inflation rate , Gini coefficient , National Income…
-Relate factor : Export value , Import value , Consumer Price Index …
-General factor : Poverty headcount Ratio , Poverty line , Poverty …
2. Find a list of statistical data exchange system or Request
-Export value , Import value from Ministry of Commerce
-Consumer Price Index from Bureau of Trade and Economic Indices
3. Data analysis
4. Dissemination of information (Analysis report , Table , Chart)
http://www.nso.go.th
Dissemination of Information
Source : Ministry of Commerce
Source : Bureau of Trade and Economic
Indices
Source : Ministry of Commerce
Source : Office of the National Economic and Socio
Development Board
Nso-Gis (Geospatial Information)
National Statistics Office initial the Nso - Gis project to provide
information in the form of spatial data via the Web (NSO-GIS) since
October 1, 2008
Using data from the socio-economic survey / census statistics of
the National Statistical Office. Presented in the form of a map
(Thematic Maps) or geospatial statistics.
Available through the website. http://sgis.nso.go.th in the web map /
web feature services
Example Nso – Gis (Geospatial Information)
Project Name
Population and Housing Census
No. of Statistical
Data / Indicators
50
Agriculture Census
28
Industrial Census
30
Poverty Map
10
Agriculture Survey
5
How do we create Geospatial Information (1)
1. Preparing statistical data / indicators that have the area code in
Excel File and provide a base map (Base Map)
2. Create statistical data base (StatDB) and store map data in a
Geodatabase (GeoDB)
3. Import Statistical table / Indicators into a database (StatDB)
4. Link the statistical table / indicators from StatDB and GeoDB
base map with the area code. And stored at GeoDB
How do we create Geospatial Information (2)
5.
Analysis of the data layer (Legend), and color of the layer
6.
Mapping by the color of the layer and checking for the accuracy
of the map
7.
Create map file and configuration file to public through the
website and link to the web page of the NSO – GIS
8.
Presented and published as a service over the Internet by
acessed at the URL http://sgis.nso.go.th
NSO – GIS : http://sgis.nso.go.th
Population Density : Population Census
Proportion of the poor : Poverty Map
Benefit
• Support the information for
planning. Set policy and
management.
• Set target area for development
or resolve problems in those
area.
• Set the budget for performance
and effectiveness in each area.
• Used as a tool to evaluate the
government policies as well as
consistency of performance
effectiveness.
Thank you for your attention