USING DATA BASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IN STATISTICAL DATA PROCESSING

摘要

National and international statistical bureaus produce ca. 25,000tables for publication each year, based on hundreds of inter-related object-types with thousands of attributes. It would appearthat this environment should be well suited to the application ofdata base management techniques for the administration of the data.This paper presents a data oriented model of the statistical production process which is used as a basis for a review of the state ofexperience within statistical offices with commercially availabledata base management systems. We conclude with a presentation ofsome important data management facilities which must be enhanced ordeveloped in order to support statistical production processing.