Transcript Nordic Marketing Conference 2005

Nordic Marketing Conference
of Statistical Products and Services
Helsinki, Finland, June 13-15th - 2005
Workshop 8:
Product Development and Access to
Individual Data for Research Purposes
Statistics Denmark
Otto Andersen
Introduction
• Why are researchers and analysts
important to the NSI?
• How broad a definition?
– Research Institutions?
– Ministries?
– Private companies?
– Consultancy firms etc?
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The Demand for Data
• The group demands much more detailed
data than other customers
• Want data linked between different
(several) registers and often data the
NSI has not worked with in detail
• Want access to micro data and are only
seldom satisfied with tabulations
• Want data on their own harddiscs
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The Nordic Countries – Microdata - 1995
Off-site
On-site
Off-line
On-line
Payroll
Denmark
no
yes
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no
Finland
yes
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no
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Iceland
yes
no
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no
Norway
yes
no
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Sweden
yes
no
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no
The Recent Development (Denmark)
• Remote Access System
• Only access to microdata for authorized
institutions (125 on 1st June 2005)
• Grants from the Ministry of Research to
run the infrastructure
• Centralised organisation of Research
Services
• Special computer arrangements only for
microdata for research
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The Potential?
• Many research institutions are not aware
of the possibilities and have to adjust
their research in order to use microdata
• The potential is very big but how to
inform and find the relevant groups?
• The groups need to be good in
computing techniques (SAS, STATA,
SPSS etc.)
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Discusion
• State of the art in each country?
• How to promote the possibilities in an
effective way
– Internet
– Invite to meetings in NSI or meet the
researchers at their workplace
– Inform about the possibilities
– Offer courses in statistics?
• Pricing
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