Background
      Integrated Business Statistics Program (IBSP) 
         •  Centralizing and standardizing processes from collection to 
            dissemination of business statistics
         •  Complex – phase I includes 60 annual business surveys; 6 
            generalized systems with different technologies; 400 million 
            transactions per year estimated
         •  Pillars of the IBSP project:
              Improve governance across all areas
              Use of tax data for estimation of financial variables
              Common sampling, editing strategies
              Earlier cut-off to active collection
              Use of e-questionnaires as principal mode of collection
              “data service centres” for warehousing of statistical information
              “metadata-driven”
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         Alignment with corporate business 
         architecture and GSBPM
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       Metadata-driven
          Quality Indicators                                   Data Source      Data Inclusion 
          Business Rules                                         Selection          Control
                                                                   IBSP 120+ Survey Flow 
           Questionnaire                                           Metadata Configurations
           Development
           Application/Tool
           Editing Rules for
           Collection                     IBSP
           Systems                     Metadata
                                     Repository(s)               IBSP Processing
          Data Integration                                       Applications
          & validation Rules
                                                                Collection Editing
                                                                Systems
             Standards & 
             IMDB                                                                IBSP Post-Processing
                                                                                 Applications
                                   More Static
             4                     More Dyanamic
     Metadata-driven
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        GSBPM and the Integrated Business 
        Statistics Program
         Used in the business analysis of IBSP
               • GSBPM used to breakdown the project into 
                   manageable parts
               • GSBPM used to define and document business 
                   processes – future state – more standardized and 
                   more efficient
               • Over 47 business processes identified – detailed 
                   descriptions for each
               • Some variation required for business surveys
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