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• Public Hospitals and Health Centres, from 2012 to 2016.
The file contains data on physical variables of public hospitals and Health
Centers, in particular characteristics, equipment, facilities, human resources
and demand and performance in hospitals.

4. The National Data Infrastructure
SP is the national statistical authority that is part of the European Statistical
System and has specific and unique attributions that guarantee the
independence and security of information. The evolution towards a National
Data Infrastructure (NDI) is a logical and natural step for SP. This trend has not
started now, but it is and will be gradual.
The increasing digitization generates a large volume of data. Their
transformation into knowledge is only possible with adequate forms of
storage, treatment and analysis, in a safe, consistent and reliable way.
SP already uses considerable amounts of administrative data in the
production and statistical analysis process. As a national statistical authority, it
has a structure that ensures the protection and integrity of the data, much like
a safe-box. The new information requirements lead to the need to provide the
State with the capacity to manage and analyze a large data set. Integrating
fully the satisfaction of this need into SP, evolving into a national data
infrastructure, has obvious gains in scale.
Taking advantage of SP competencies, tasks and mission, the objective is
to adopt a more intensive and integrated use of data in the production of
statistical information and to take advantage of the entire production chain,
from the development of platforms, applications and algorithms to the
collection and validation of data, until the analysis of the statistical
information. It is an evolution of the SP and the development of new skills that
will allow gaining resources, space to intensify innovation throughout the
organic structure, through a greater return to society.
NDI will seek to respond to the need for SP scale up and gain critical mass
in order to respond to an increasingly complex society that generates new
expectations regarding statistics. New services and statistical products are
sought, with new approaches, with a guarantee of quality.
The development of the NDI will ensure the SP the critical dimension to
continue developing its skills and improving statistical production, benefiting
the country by the increased processing and analysis capacity.
The creation of a national data infrastructure will take full advantage of the
(growing) set of available data, without endangering their safety and privacy.
Intensification of ownership and use of administrative data in the SP
production process anticipates a large increase in the volume of data and a
substantial broadening of the covered areas.

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