External Trade Statistical System
UNECA – Addis Ababa, October 2011
Eurotrace has been substantially revised and improved.
Three separate applications that work together.
Eurotrace DBMS
Eurotrace Data Editor
Comext Standalone Data Browser
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Built with Microsoft Visual Basic and C++ Programming Languages
Supports Data Access Objects (DAO) and Open database connectivity
Standards (OBDC)
Pentium II 450Mhz
256MB RAM
Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, Me or XP Operating system
A 3 part system of Interacting programs, offering an extensive and
complete range of data processing tools to meet all External Trade
Statistics data processing needs.
The software is free and can be downloaded from:
http://circa.europa.eu/irc/dsis/eurotracegroup/info/data/website/index_en.htm
External Trade Statistics: Implementing system
with
Comext/Eurotrace Package
Data
Sources
Mostly CUSTOMS
DECLARATION
Data Integration
Procedure
External Trade
Database
Definition
External Trade Database
Estimation
Indices
Enterprise
RAW DATA
Data
Requests
EUROSTAT
MedComext
UN
IMF
COMEXT
Stand-Alone
Browser
Country Table
and Publication
Eurotrace Actors
How to design a Domain ?
4. Target of Data
dissemination
Statistical Office
Statistics Users
Derived Data
Source Dataset
Classification
Plan
2. Provider of Data
Trade Statistics data
Supplier,
Customs,
Statistical Office
Data
Editor
1. Define External Trade
Statistical Database
Expert of Nomenclatures and/or
Trade Information System
3. Validity Check and
Quality Control
Data Coders,
Data Controller
Eurotrace DOMAIN
Definition
Classification Plan
Dictionary
Dictionary
Dictionary
Classification Plan
Managing Nomenclatures and Relations
GeoNom.
CTY
BEC
HS
SITC
Activity
Enterprise
Source Data
Eurotrace DOMAIN
Dataset Source
Definition
Classification Plan
Dictionary
Dictionary
Dictionary
Source Dataset
Format: Asycuda,
Eurotrace Dos,
SAD …
Validation
Data Entry/Correction
Direct Validation
1. Define Data Structure
Define the data set
structure using
Dictionaries
2. Source Data Structure
Define the file structure
to be integrated within
Eurotrace
3. Define Data
Integration Algorithm
Importing data by using
the Wizard
Data Entry/Data Correction
1. Database Extraction
a. Single File
b. Record Locking Security
c. Extraction Criteria
7. Database Update
Data
Editor
a.2.File
sent
to administrator in
a.
Appending
Records
order to updateNew
the DB
Modify
Records
b.b.Errors
could
be corrected one
c.
“Undo”
function
by one (No lock in process)
Header –Records
Detail -Unlocked
Footer
c.d.Database
e. Validation “On The Fly”
4. Form Designer
a.
Customize
the Customs
Detecting
Errors
5. 3.
Code
List Selector
Declaration
6.
Navigator
a.
Highlighted
inForm
red
a.Record
Hierarchy
selection
b.
Hide/Mask
a.
a of
specific
record
directly
b.
Type
Errorfields
occurred
b.Select
Code
Validation
c. Move
Boxes
from/to body
b. View
data in
Grid( format
to/from header/footer part)
Dataset Management
• Data Monitoring
• Historical back-up
• Error Correction Wizard
• Checking of Error Type
• List of valid codes (dictionary)
Source Data
Eurotrace DOMAIN
Dataset Source
Definition
Classification Plan
Derived
Dataset
Dictionary
Dictionary
Dictionary
Derived
Dataset
Derived Dataset
2. Simple Interface to Upgrade Derived DS
Selecting
of Period
be updated
1.a.Define
Algorithm
fortoDerived
Dataset
b.
Global
control
on
Data
Maintenance
a. Parameters based on Data Source
b. Codes Filter & Correlation Tables
Source Data
Eurotrace DOMAIN
Dataset Source
Definition
Classification Plan
Derived
Dataset
Dictionary
Dictionary
Dictionary
Dissemination/Analysis
Derived
Dataset
COMEXT Stand-Alone
A common Interface for Data
Dissemination
Criteria Selection
and Data Browsing
Comext Plan
COMEXT
Stand-Alone
COMEXT
Stand-Alone
COMEXT
Stand-Alone
TYPE
.txt
.dmp
.dta
.xls
.csv
Spreadsheet
format
Excel format
Source Data
Eurotrace DOMAIN
Dataset Source
Derived
Dataset
Definition
Eurotrace
Local
Classification Plan
Administrator Black Box
Dictionary
or
Dictionary
Installation
mission
Parameters
Dictionary
Dissemination/Analysis
Derived
Dataset
Implementation, Efficiency & Robustness
• Flexibility
• Full control of statistical data
• Fully definable control parameters
• Save Time
• Reduce data validation time
• Track down and easily correct errors
• Helps Cooperation between partner countries
• Make data compatible with EU standards
• Ensure compatibility with partner countries
• Enables easy transmission of data
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EUROTRACE is able to store codes and labels in different languages
that are accessible throughout the application. Data can be displayed
in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek,
Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Finnish and Luxembourgish.
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The language of the interface is set by the user to either French or
English.
Thank You