Abstract:

SISDATA, the Statistical Information System, designed and maintained by Slamark International, an Italian information system and marketing consultancy firm, deals with secondary statistical data, that is, the data of the main sectors of a country's economic and social activity normally surveyed in official statistics. The system has two facets: a socio-economic analysis function applied to extremely disaggregated data covering a considerable time span, and a dynamic trend observer dealing with the most recent aggregated data in the form of time series. Currently envisaged in a European dimension, the Italian archive is already operative and will be joined by the French, Federal German and British sectors. The System is, moreover, multi-lingual, the descriptions to the statistical tables (rows and columns) being provided in the language of the country surveyed and English as the interface language.