Affiliations: Statistics New Zealand, www.stats.govt.nz,
Christchurch, New Zealand. E-mail: [email protected]
Abstract: Under the Micro-Economic Platform Programme, we are transforming how
micro-economic surveys are processed at Statistics New Zealand. This is part of
our organisation-wide business transformation programme, Statistics 2020 Te
Kāpehu Whetū (Stats 2020), which aims to increase our relevance to
government and public data users, and reduce the cost of producing statistical
outputs. I report on insights into this programme and outline what the platform
team has learned during the projects included in the Micro-Economic Platform.
In particular, I report on the challenges involved in using standard methods
and tools, increasing the level of automation in the system, introducing survey
teams to the platform, and collaborating to achieve the migration of each
survey to the platform. I also discuss what we learned from these challenges as
part of achieving Statistics New Zealand's statistical system of the
future.