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The initial focus of AGILIS SA activities include consulting in statistics and information technology, as well as engineering of custom software solutions to support the entire data to information life cycle, for any organisation with information intensive activities, such as in official statistics. Therefore, application areas, where statistics methodology and information technology are combined to achieve efficient solutions, include:

Data Collection

  • Survey design: questionnaire design, sample design, development of survey implementation plans
  • Software solutions for data collection, web based tools, CATI.
  • Non response treatment, during both fieldwork and data analysis
  • XML schemas and systems for data collection
  • Data processing

Statistical Data Exchange

  • EDIFACT message implementation (GESMES, INSTAT, etc.)
  • SDMX implementation
  • Design and implementation of XML schemas for statistical data
  • EDIFACT, XML data processing software tools
  • Web services and integrated systems for XML based data exchange
  • Consulting and support for standardisation activities
  • User training and technical support

Metadata

  • Questionnaire design for the collection of survey metadata
  • Survey design for the collection of metadata
  • Software solutions for metadata collection
  • Design and development of metadata databases
  • Processing and analysis of metadata
  • Metadata training

Quality of Statistics

  • Assessment and reporting of quality of statistics
  • Development of indicators of quality of statistics
  • Design of quality assurance frameworks for statistical organizations
  • Evaluation of quality of statistics related policies
  • Training on quality of statistics issues

Data Validation

  • Data validation - analysis and assessment of results
  • Specification of data validation rules for a given set of data.
  • Development of data validation software
  • Application of data validation on real data
  • User training and support.
  • Consulting on data validation and data quality improvement

Data Analysis

  • Statistical data analysis (Spatial data, time series, survey data)
  • Interpretation of results – report writing
  • Applied research for adaptation and development of methodology
  • Construction of statistical indicators
  • Development of software for data analysis
  • Training

Data Warehouses

  • Architecture of data warehouse-centric integrated information systems.
  • Detailed analysis and design of custom Data Warehouses
  • Statistical survey-specific data warehouses for official statistics.
  • Statistical dissemination data warehouses and tools
  • Spatial - Geographic Databases

Data Mining OLAP

  • Development of OLAP tools for statistical data warehouses
  • Development of original methods, or adaptation of existing ones
  • Development of data mining software solutions
 

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