Statistics New Zealand's Move to Processoriented Statistics Production

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Statistics New Zealand's Move to Process-oriented
Statistics Production

• Julia Gretton and Tracey Savage
• IAOS Conference
• Shanghai, China, October 2008

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Objectives

• Increase confidence in outputs
• Improve communication
• Support business and IT planning
• Improve staff orientation and training
• Improve quality and risk management
• Business process modelling

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Generic model

• Recognise common processes
• Understand similarities and differences
• See where our role fits
• Identify opportunities to standardise

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Prioritise efforts

• Actual state

Collect
Need
Disseminate
Design/ Develop
Process
Build
Analyse
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Prioritise efforts

• Actual state
• Desired state

Collect
Need
Disseminate
Design/ Develop
Process
Build
Analyse
Collect
Need
Disseminate
Design/ Develop
Process
Build
Analyse
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Expected benefits of transformation

• Decrease time processing data
• Increase time building capabilities
• Improve responsiveness to users
• Improve access
• Increase use of administrative data
• Allow complex data integration
• Facilitate business and IT planning

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10 Conceptual components
Collect
Process
Analyse
Disseminate
CURFS
CURFS
Imaging
Imaging
Multi
Multi
-
-
Data
Data
INFOS
INFOS
Admin.
Admin.
Output Channels
Output Channels
Official Statistics System
Data Archive
Official Statistics System
Data Archive
Modal Collection
Modal Collection
1. Input Data Store
1. Input Data Environment
2. Output Data Store
2. Output Data Envt.
Web
Web
CAI
CAI
Summary

UR
Clean
Raw
E
E
-
-
Data
Data
Data
Data
Data
RADL
RADL
Form
Form
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Personal experiences

• Develop new processing system
• Obligation to meet survey release dates
• Constrained resources and time
• Compromises made
• Resulting system meets all our needs and aligns
  with many of the principles

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Lessons learnt to date

• Statistical outputs compete with strategic
  outputs
• Complex governance, no one single programme owner
• Focus is on separate components, rather than
  end-to-end solution
• Driven by software solutions
• Assumed ease of integrating these

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Future plans

• Shift focus to people, processes, methods
• Promote wider use of existing tools
• Resource development projects separately
• Continue to improve governance and ownership of
  key deliverables

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Conclusion

• Seeing benefits from becoming more
  process-oriented
• Challenges around implementation
• The principles are sound and are still strongly
  supported
• Change is gradual and at many levels
• Culture, behaviour, processes, standards and
  technology

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Thank you

• For further information please contact
• tracey.savage_at_stats.govt.nz
• or
• julia.gretton_at_stats.govt.nz