<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> With tighter federal budgets on the horizon, the National Agricultural Statistics Service decided in 2009 to pursue three architectural transformations, primarily to provide savings in staff resource costs by enabling the centralization or regionalization of survey operations. The transformational initiatives involved: (1) centralizing and consolidating network services from 48 locations; (2) standardizing survey metadata and integrating survey data into easily accessible databases across all surveys; and (3) consolidating and generalizing survey applications for the agency’s diverse survey program. The three architectural transformations will be described as well as initial efforts to consolidate and standardize survey operations across the agency.</p></abstract>

With tighter federal budgets on the horizon, the National Agricultural Statistics Service decided in 2009 to pursue three architectural transformations, primarily to provide savings in staff resource costs by enabling the centralization or regionalization of survey operations. The transformational initiatives involved: (1) centralizing and consolidating network services from 48 locations; (2) standardizing survey metadata and integrating survey data into easily accessible databases across all surveys; and (3) consolidating and generalizing survey applications for the agency’s diverse survey program. The three architectural transformations will be described as well as initial efforts to consolidate and standardize survey operations across the agency.

Consolidation and Standardization of Survey Operations at a Decentralized Federal Statistical Agency

National Agricultural Statistics Service, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Journal of Official Statistics

With tighter federal budgets on the horizon, the National Agricultural Statistics Service decided in 2009 to pursue three architectural transformations,...

Consolidation and Standardization of Survey Operations at a Decentralized Federal Statistical Agency

Published Online: Oct 01, 2013

Page range: 5 - 28

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jos-2013-0002

Keywords
Virtualization, survey metadata, analytical database, transactional database, generalized application services

This content is open access.

Consolidation and Standardization of Survey Operations at a Decentralized Federal Statistical Agency

Published Online: Oct 01, 2013

Page range: 5 - 28

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jos-2013-0002

KeywordsVirtualization, survey metadata, analytical database, transactional database, generalized application services

This content is open access.

Keywords
Virtualization, survey metadata, analytical database, transactional database, generalized application services