ROBERTO BIANCHINI, INTERUNIVERSITY RESEARCH CENTER
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USE OF TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS IN THE
DISSEMINATION OF CENSUS DATA
Some examples to make the census results available to
the users
United Nations Regional Seminar on Census Data Dissemination
and Spatial Analysis
14-17 September, 2010 Nairobi, Kenya
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Summary
1. Overview on census dissemination tools
2. census databases and interactive tools:
- CensusInfo
- CSPro
- Redatam
- PC-Axis
- MSIS
- Istar
3. Some suggestions for selecting census dissemination tools
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1. Overview on dissemination tools
•
Printed tables and reports
•
Computer media (CD_ROMs, DVD-ROMs, USB drivers)
•
Online dissemination: static web pages

census databases and web-based interactive tools for
tabulating, analyzing and presenting data in graphs
or in other formats

GIS web based mapping tools
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2. census databases and interactive tools - CensusInfo
A software application for disseminating census results
Developed by the United Nations Statistics Division, in partnership with
UNICEF and UNFPA, to help countries disseminate their census results at
different geographical levels
It is based on DevInfo database technology with added
functionalities to meet census dissemination requirements
specific
Organizes data by indicators, time periods, and geographic areas with
extensive metadata based on international standards
Contains a core set of census indicators with options to add countryspecific indicators, and can be customized to meet country-specific
requirements
Can import data from other applications, such as CSPro and Redatam, and
generates user-defined standard reports, tables, graphs and maps
http://www.devinfo.info/censusinfo/
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2. census databases and interactive tools - CensusInfo
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2. census databases and interactive tools - CSPro
The Census and Survey Processing System (CSPro) is a software package
used for entry, editing, tabulation, and dissemination of census and
survey data
The data are stored in (ASCII) text files described by data dictionaries
CSPro allows to define and select variables to tabulate. Tabulations can be
saved in several formats. Tables can be copied to spreadsheets or wordprocessing documents. It produces tables by geographic area, and map
results by geographic area
Map Viewer is a module of CSPro that allows you to create, view and print
thematic maps. It is not a GIS
CSPro was developed jointly by the U.S. Census Bureau, Macro
International, and Serpro, SA, with major funding from the U.S. Agency
for International Development
CSPro is in the public domain, www.census.gov/ipc/www/cspro and as
commercial software (CSProX), http://www.serpro.com
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2. census databases and interactive tools - Redatam
Redatam is an acronym for REtrieval of DATA for small Areas by
Microcomputer
Developed and maintained by the Latin American and Caribbean
Demographic Centre (CELADE) - http://www.eclac.org/redatam/
It has modules for creating, managing, processing and disseminating very
large hierarchical census and other databases
The user can define any area of interest in a database (such as city
blocks) or any combination of areas, create new variables, obtain various
types of tabulations, export outputs to other software and graphically
display results
The data at different geographical levels can be combined hierarchically to
create aggregated variables and the results shown on maps or transferred
to a geographical information system (GIS)
WebServer, the latest module, is used for requesting information on-line
from a Redatam database on an intranet, extranet or the Internet
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2. census databases and interactive tools - Redatam
the Redatam+SP XPlan application for the 2008 population and housing census, developed using the
Redatam platform Web server.
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2. census databases and interactive tools - PC-Axis
PC-Axis was originally designed for population census in Sweden and it is
now supported by UNECE in the framework of a Consortium
The objective is to develop a common statistical data dissemination
system in UNECE region. It is also integrated with the following modules:
• PX-Map is a Windows program which allows you to create maps
• PX-Make helps you to create PC-Axis files, by entering metadata
• PX-Edit is a tool for editing, manipulating and generating PC-Axis files
• PX-Web is a solution for the web. It works with PC-Axis files. PX-Web can
also be a part of a solution with connection to SQL databases
http://www.pc-axis.scb.se/
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2. census databases and interactive tools - PC-Axis
It is based on
multidimensional cubes as
requested by EU census hub
Country
The Eurostat Census Hub
project is based on the
production of multidimensional tables
(hypercubes) covering
common census variables in all
27 member states of the EU.
It uses the SDMX standards
for data exchange
Age
Year
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2. census databases and interactive tools - PC-Axis
The outputs are:
-projecting cubes to
tabular format
- creating graphs
- creating maps
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2. census databases and interactive tools - MSIS
MSIS is the joint UNECE / Eurostat / OECD Group on the
Management of Statistical Information Systems
The project made available an inventory of software for statistical
dissemination:
http://www1.unece.org/stat/platform/display/msis/7.2+Produce+dissemi
nation+products
•Business Tool Box
•CoSSI
•ISTAR
•Jaxi
•PC-Axis
•PX-Map2
•Remote Execution Environment for Microdata
•SDMX ISTAT Framework
•SDMX to Geospatial Coded and RDF Outputs
•StatFlow
•StatWeb
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2. census databases and interactive tools - ISTAR
Istar, is an open source approach to disseminate statistical data on the
web developed by ISTAT, the Italian Institute of Statistics. It is planned to
be used also for the 2011 population and housing census in Kosovo
It is an Integrated Output Management System for statistical data
warehousing
It integrates not only data warehouses and metadata information
systems, but also descriptive and textual information. The system offers a
set of packages to extract data from statistical sources, transform them
into other formats, load the data into statistical data warehouses or data
banks and make the information available to many different users
Istar is a collection of tools specifically designed to support the
statisticians in the several phases required to disseminate statistical
aggregate data on the Web starting from a collection of validated data
The module for the access to the data via web (WebMD) was also
developed in a open source environment
http://dawinci.istat.it/
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2. census databases and interactive tools - ISTAR
The object of interest is the unit
of analysis, e.g. resident
population, residential density,
percentage of population aged 65
and over, etc.
The classifications correspond to
the statistical characteristics used
to classify the units of analysis
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2. census databases and interactive tools - ISTAR
The territory represents the
spatial reference of the data
The year is the time reference of
the data
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2. census databases and interactive tools - ISTAR
The folder Tables contains the
list of all tables corresponding to
the previously performed
selections
The module WebMD allows also
to navigate interactively among
different pages in order to select
different tables without starting
the procedure from the
beginning
The geographic component of the application is under development.
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3. Some suggestions for selecting census dissemination
technological tools
Developing cooperation with other statistical organizations,
creation of regional groups to harmonize data outputs
Maximizing involvement of statisticians to develop statistical
products and minimizing involvement of software resources
Preferring open source software
Keeping balance between own IT staff at the NSO and outsourcing
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THANK YOU for your attention!
roberto.bianchini@uniroma1.it
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