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1. What is CountrySTAT?
2. What is the vision for CountrySTAT?
3. Is CountrySTAT customizable to country specific situations?
4. Can CountrySTAT be used to produce reports?
5. Who should use CountrySTAT?
6. What are the basic steps to successfully establish CountrySTAT in a country?
7. What software does CountrySTAT use?
8. What technology does CountrySTAT use?
9. What are the software prerequisites for CountrySTAT to work as stand-alone application?
10. How many dimension levels can be supported by CountrySTAT?
11. Can data be exported from CountrySTAT?
12. Can data be imported into CountrySTAT?
13. How is training on CountrySTAT provided?
1. What is CountrySTAT?
CountrySTAT is a statistical framework and applied information system for analysis and policy-making to organise, integrate and disseminate statistical data and metadata on food and agriculture coming from different sources. CountrySTAT gathers and harmonises scattered institutional statistical information so that information tables become compatible with each other at the country level and with data at the international level.
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2. What is the vision for CountrySTAT?
CountrySTAT is a system that allows countries to operate and maintain their nationally owned information systems for integrated, transparent food and agriculture statistics. The system helps provide easy access to support policy makers and analysts in their decision making, monitoring and evaluation actions in their fight against hunger and extreme poverty.
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3. Is CountrySTAT customizable to country specific situations?
Yes. CountrySTAT provides a framework to organize national and sub-national data including, of course, all parameters elements (name of the system, images, flags, graphics, logos and color scheme). It also allows all language elements of the system to be customized, and provides support for local languages.
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4. Can CountrySTAT be used to produce Reports?
CountrySTAT provides simple facilities for querying the database and producing tables, graphs, maps and dynamic tables with (pivot functionallity), and for exporting to Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
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5. Who should use CountrySTAT?
CountrySTAT contains infrastructural information that allows countries to have a simple tool to collect, harmonize, analyze data and produce basic and helpful outputs that will help them to improve the quality and obtain value added from their data. Typically, users would include: - UN country teams
- government departments
- planning ministries
- district planners
- media (to report and track human development data)
- researchers and professors of universities (for data analysis of sector studies)
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6. What are the basic steps to successfully establish CountrySTAT in a country?- A user friendly and functional interface for variables selection.
- Dynamic tables, with a pivot function available.
- Predefined graphs for quick analyses.
- Digital maps for spatial dimension.
- Rich metadata in SQL and PC-Axis file format.
- Multi-dimensional matrices.
- PC-Axis files arranged in a structure from a PC-Axis database accessible without using SQL.
- SQL-extension (Sybase/Oracle/MS-SQL-Server) for a SQL database.
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7. What software does CountrySTAT use?
CountrySTAT works with an open source software: PC-Axis family version 2007 that consists of a number of programs for the Windows and Internet environment (PC–Axis, PX-Web, PX-Make, PX-Edit, PX-Map, and PX-Excel macro tool). In addition, SDMX Technical Standards Version 2.0 provide the technical specifications for the exchange of data and metadata based on a common information model.
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8. What technology does CountrySTAT use?
Currently, CountrySTAT is developed using Microsoft ASP technology, but in the near future it will be developed using Microsoft .NET.
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9. What are the software prerequisites for CountrySTAT to work as stand alone?
Microsoft XP, Web Server as Microsoft IIS, PC-Axis, and PC–Web family software.
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10. How many dimension levels can be supported by CountrySTAT?
The usual number of accessible dimensions published is six, but the application can support until 16 dimensions.
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11. Can data be exported from CountrySTAT?
Yes. CountrySTAT data can be exported to the following file formats: Excel, XML, Lotus123, CSV, GESMES/TS, SDMX.
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12. Can data be imported into CountrySTAT?
Data can be imported from Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access and text files (CSV).
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13. How is training on CountrySTAT provided?
CountrySTAT Basic or Advanced Administrator training can be provided locally in the country, or at FAO headquarters.
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