2000 SDS Objectives

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National Accounts World Wide Exchange
Technical Overview
Russell Penlington Lars Thygesen OECD STD/SIMS
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Rationale

• The idea
• web based mechanism
• report internationally agreed set of data
• allow any authorised user to access data
• international organisations agree
• Benefits to country's NSO
• One format and one operation for reporting
  national accounts data
• Automated generation of data from national source
  databases
• Built-in validation
• Benefits to international organisations
• Timely reporting
• Complete reporting
• No code misinterpretations

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Architecture
Data Flow
OECD Web Server
Web Application
XML Data Files
SDMX Based XML Schemas
XML Files Validated By Schema
lt?xml version"1.0"?gt ltOECD.STAT
xmlnsxsd...gt ltValuegtCANADAlt/Valuegt lt/Datagt

Navigation
Structural XML
Excel VBA Macros provided by OECD
Upload to SNA Database or Output to Other Format
Defines Dimensions and Data Structure
lt?xml version"1.0"?gt ltOECD.STAT
xmlnsxsd...gt ltValuegtFRANCElt/Valuegt lt/Datagt

Copied XML Files
lt?xml version"1.0"?gt ltOECD.STAT
xmlnsxsd...gt ltValuegtAUSTRALIAlt/Valuegt
lt/Datagt
XML Files Copied to Server
Potential to reduce the number of steps for
validating and loading of NSO data into OECD
systems
Content
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Next steps
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Tour Europe
The End