National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics of Mexico

1. National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics of Mexico Website of Mexico for Information Exchange With OECD Towards Implementation of SDMX Washington, D. C. January 9 -11, 2007

2. Agenda • The Role of INEGI • The National System of Statistical and Geographical Information (SNIEG: “Sistema Nacional de Información Estadística y Geográfica) • The National Network of Information (RNI: “Red Nacional de Información) • Implementation of SDMX at INEGI • The Website of Mexico for Information Exchange With OECD • Conclusions

3. The Role of INEGI INEGI is a federal office that coordinates the production, standardization and dissemination of all statistical and geographical information of national interest

4. The National System of Statistical and Geographical Information It’s defined as a set of Units that are organized through the subsystems, coordinated by the INEGI and articulated by means of the National Network of Information in order to produce and to spread the information of national importance

5. The National Network of Information Set of interchange processes and safeguard of information to support on the one hand the activities of the National System of Statistical and Geographic Information and its subsystems and by the another one the benefit of the Public Service of Information to all the society.

6. Net for the Collaboration and Exchange of Information with International Organisms National Offices of Geographical Information International Organisms National Offices of Statistics Collaboration and Information Exchange Systems Collaboration and Information Exchange Systems Collaboration and Information Exchange Systems Net for the collaboration and information exchange with the Information Producer Units INEGI (UPI) UPI UPI Collaboration and Information Exchange Systems Collaboration and Information Exchange Systems Collaboration and Information Exchange Systems System for the access of information of/to international organisms Net for the dissemination of information Systems for dissemination of Information Systems for dissemination of information Systems for dissemination of information Access system for public dissemination of information User Logical Architecture of the RNI

7. Implementation of SDMX at INEGI • Exchange of economical information with Bank of Mexico and SHCP (Federal Treasure Department) • Web service for querying of information in SDMX from the indicators database (Statistical Data Warehouse) • Website for statistical information exchange with OECD

8. Exchange of Information With Bank of Mexico and SHCP INEGI SHCP BANK OF MEXICO .NET Client Java Client Web Services server Database server Firewall Internet Different platforms support Bank of Economical Indicators (BIE)

9. Web Service for Querying of Information from the Data Warehouse User DWH Indicators Database (Data and Metadata) Web Application Selection of indicators Web Service Makes the query of the time series on SDMX format Indicators IDs Intranet SDMX file Web Services server OAS10.1.3 Oracle database server Java Client Receives an XML file to use it as needed Java

10. The Website of Mexico for Information Exchange With OECD • The Website is part of the SISNIEG (The Information System of the National System of Statistical and Geographical Information) • It’s a mean of coordination among Mexican statistical information production units

11. Website Interface

12. Reception of Information

13. Working Plan • Integration of information from Mexican agencies that has to be sent to the OECD • Gradual transformation of data files to SDMX format • In the near future we are planning to establish web services to automate information exchange with those agencies

14. Achievements • The areas of statistical information production from INEGI have been capacitated on basic SDMX issues • 23 offices have already a login and a password to deposit information • About 60 persons from 30 offices have been trained on SDMX issues • Conceptual aspects • Transformation of indicators to SDMX ML compact model • We plan to start putting official information on the site this year

15. Factors That Are Helping Us With the Task • Collaboration with the Mexican Foreign Relations Federal Department • We are offering an easy way to get in the project (we don’t expect too much at the beginning) • Interest of the technical areas from INEGI and from the federal departments • Perceived Usefulness • A spirit of team working • Institutional commitment

16. Conclusions • Initial steps when working with SDMX must be easy to follow by potential adopters • SDMX-ML Compact model is helpful at the beginning because it has a short and defined set of data a metadata • A successful implementation of SDMX standards must consider internal and external processes • To extend the use of SDMX is necessary to have initial understanding of it’s basis and at least some short implementations • To obtain the full potential of the standard it’s necessary to make decisions about contents to define the Data Structure Definitions. Those decisions are made by information producers and supported by people from IT • We can get commitment from the adopters only if we can prove that this standard is useful for them

17. Contact information: Juan Muñoz López Juan.Munoz@inegi.gob.mx