Nordic Statistical Meeting 26.-28.8.2019, Helsinki

1. Collecting data about
Women’s shelters
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2. Spreadsheet for data collection
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3. Where to upload the spreadsheet
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4. Spreadsheet compared to system-to-system
Advantages
• You can always see your data
• Statistics Denmark and the
women’s shelter look at the
same data
• The solution is in-expensive
• Easy to add more columns or
expand the excel sheet
Disadvantages
• No validation rules
• Understanding how to use an
excel sheet
• There is a respondent burden
• Understanding what kind of
information Statistics Denmark
want
• More programming and error-
detection for Statistics Denmark
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5. The Future
Advantages
• Data comes structured and
automatically in an input database
• Data can be reported directly into
the web-solution - also report big
amounts of data
• You can built in check and control
of data
Disadvantages
• Relative big costs to develop the
solution
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6. Thank you!
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