Good metadata should support data lineage practices, and documenting the data journey from collection to publication of national statistics, or from ‘field to fork’. Hopefully, within the mexico rcs data lifecycle of metadata capture, derived variables from the social surveys will be included.
When it comes to administrative data, the full provenance chain can be so difficult, the ONS has already established Quality Assurance Toolkits, including one aimed at Administrative Data (QAAD), and one under development for its surveys. Reports on various administrative data, including cancer registrations/survival education, trade, agriculture, fishing and construction are already available and are a good read.
Alex Newson, a data scientist from the Best Practice and Impact (BPI) team at ONS explained how expertise and the emerging Data Access Platform were being used to pilot Reproducible Analytical Pipeline (RAP) techniques in the production of statistics.