[Open-data-census] How is the Census submitting going?

Tue Oct 1 16:43:15 BST 2013

I wonder, instead of statistical data, might be easier to say Census?  We
have a similar issue in Canada, many agencies produce statistical data,
which on to report on, and in one agency some are accessible and others are
not.

Cheers
t

On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 4:39 PM, emmy chepkirui <emmychepkirui at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I am having a challenge with the lack of standardisation across various
> government sources of data. For datasets that cover a range of other
> datasets e.g. national statistics that has GDP, unemployment etc, how do
> you measure this in the case that some meet some of the criteria and some
> do not? For example GDP data exists but data on employment rates do not
> exists on the central government agency that collects statistics (KNBS) and
> which also charges for and avails upon request some of the data but not
> others. At the same time KNBS has data distribution channels listed on its
> websites but no standards on how the data is displayed on these various
> websites for example the Kenya Open Data Initative (KODI) where not all the
> data is there but adheres to open standards. Another channel is the Kenya
> Data Portal which has a wide range of bulk data available for download in
> various formats but not necessarily open. Which one does one pick?
>
> Regards,
> Emmy
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Christian Villum <
> christian.villum at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> It's great to see lots of submissions coming in and reviews being done!
>> So far we have 22 countries at work.
>>
>> As you know *we have our deadline for a first pass of a full set of
>> submissions this Wednesday, October 2, *so we're looking forward to
>> seeing all other countries getting their results in also.
>>
>> (Let us know if you're pressed for time and cannot make it.)
>>
>> As a note please remember that as Country Editor you need to login to
>> review all submissions before they can appear on the site. To log in, use
>> the password that was located in the instructions email and simply follow
>> the instructions (let me know if you would like me to re-send the password
>> email to you).
>>
>> Great work, all!
>>
>> -Christian
>>
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