Registers Based System

As a result of the continuous growth program in the statistical on-going solutions and services provided by RealSoft, they turned toward building knowledge and expertise in the domain of Register-based surveys, as it increasingly become an important input to the operations of Statistical Institutes worldwide.

Recently, Register-Based Statistical solutions started to be feasible for most countries, or even all domains of statistics, and this explains the growing substitution of administrative data for data collected by surveys in the recent time.

Using Administrative Records present number of advantages to the statistical process, such as;

Reduce the resources and operations costs
because they already exist, do not incur additional cost for data collection processes.

Reduce the efforts required
for data revision, completion, verifying, check of time series, and else.

Reduce the burden of response to surveys.

RealSoft has performed number of surveys based on registers. We consider our services in this domain as UNIQUE, where we are starting with our client from the zero point; by introducing them to the general and specific requirements need to be in place to achieve a high level of data quality, and get them _in depth_ to the operations performed on records to reach that distinctive quality.

Of course, this is presented in term of golden statistical and technological perspectives

How can we help you?

We will advise if the data is good to use and how to make it good to use, by providing the following services:

Identification of data sources

RealSoft will assess the data suitable for the client’s particular purpose, identify all the potential sources and select the appropriate ones.

Data collection

RealSoft offers extraction services to provide the necessary data from the identified data set.

Data treatment

RealSoft will involve data editing and processing to make your data 100% conformant to your needs.

Record matching

In some cases, the required administrative data about particular population units need to be combined from two or more administrative data sets. RealSoft experts faced such cases during their projects, and just make a perfect matching even with the existence of large data sources.

Besides, RealSoft offers set of technical related services including:

Reviewing and linking the databases of different relevant institutions, to build statistical framework based on the latest international standards and recommendations in this domain.
Linking the Alphanumerical data with Spatial data to provide statistical data for population, dwellings, and establishments.

Moreover, RealSoft has wide experience and knowledge with the international standards to form and disseminate the statistical data, like GSBPM in general and the SDMX standards in specific. We have utilized such standards to describe and assess the quality of processes for surveys, censuses, administrative records, and other statistic projects carried by RealSoft. As well as being one of the first who applied SDMX standards to the development and maintenance of statistical registers.

Projects and Experiences

Recently, Realsoft was selected by the Department of Statistics and Community Development (DSCD) Sharjah, to develop an electronic system for Registers Based Statistics. The solution will include designing, developing, customizing, and deploying of a database system for the administrative data, and statistical data sharing system based on SDMX standards, to help the DSCD to go forward and prepare for census 2020 based on the administrative registers.