Title :
Quality aspects of a modern database service
Author :
Dean, Pat ; Sundgren, Bo
Author_Institution :
Res. & Dev., Stat. Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden
Abstract :
This paper briefly reviews Statistics Sweden´s statistical databases with an emphasis on quality issues, the role that metadata play, the documentation system and its ancillary templates. Statistics Sweden´s agency-wide policy for quality in surveys is outlined and the main characteristics of the agency-wide quality declarations are cited. The paper concludes with some general statements about metadata: their importance, their uses, and their requirements
Keywords :
government data processing; quality control; social sciences computing; software quality; statistical databases; Statistics Sweden; agency-wide policy; data provider; documentation system; metadata; modern database service quality; statistical databases; surveys; Databases; Documentation; Electronic publishing; Finance; Government; Guidelines; Law; Legal factors; Statistical analysis; Statistics;
Conference_Titel :
Scientific and Statistical Database Systems, 1996. Proceedings., Eighth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Stockholm
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7264-1
DOI :
10.1109/SSDM.1996.506057
