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Department and yellow means tasks for the Dissemination and Publishing
Department:

Figure 2 - Understandable flow chart about the centralised system during a year
in case of one time period
How can we ensure quality in this system in case of seasonal adjustment?
Until now, at the beginning of every year the Methodology Department sent
a questionnaire to the subject-matter domains to collect as much information
as possible on their time series to prepare for the annual model revisions.
Year after year the Hungarian Central Statistical Office have created more and
more time series and at the same time more and more information on them.
This old system cannot or hardly be managed anymore. The main aim of
Plutus is to help the collaboration of colleagues from different departments,
to solve the problem of increased data set and to further standardise the
process. Exceptionally during the annual model revisions.
Plutus is a system of database tables with a user friendly interface, which
fully uses metadata. In this way everything is fully trackable. We have
information on who modified the data and when. The biggest advantage of
this whole system is that the whole process is more transparent than before.
Now every user has reading rights to all information which makes their work
easier than before. This also mean that in every year at the beginning the
users do not have to fill a new questionnaire, just update the last year’s
information which results in less work. The developed system has a lot of
automated options such as sending notifications which also make easier the
workflow.
These steps lead us to guarantee the more complete service-oriented
architecture. In addition this also increases the amount of metainformation
on seasonally adjusted time series. For example there is a possibility for the
users to upload the domestic and international standards linked to their time
series. The collected metainformation can be linked to any other metadata
object like descriptive information on subject-matter domains or any
publication system to inform our users more completely. We can publish
more detailed information on our time series and their seasonal adjustment
methods.
The whole system of Plutus will be connected to the Single Integrated
Metadata Structure (EUROSTAT, 2015b) too which connection is really
important in case of linking metainformation and thus quality management.
The Hungarian Central Statistical Office have future plans too to use
these in-house data to inform their users more effectively. Unfortunately now
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