The Common Statistical Production Architecture (CSPA) is a reference architecture for the statistical industry. It has been developed and peer reviewed by the international statistical community as a key standard of the Modernstats initiative (Modernisation of official statistics) set up by HLG-MOS (High-Level Group for the Modernisation of Official Statistics) under UNECE-CES (Conference of European Statisticians).
The CSPA:
- covers statistical production across the processes defined by the GSBPM;
- provides a practical link between conceptual standards (the Generic Statistical Information Model (GSIM) and the
- Generic Statistical Business Production Model (GSBPM)) and statistical production;
- includes application architecture and associated principles for the delivery of statistical services;
- does not prescribe technological environments of statistical organisations.
CSPA-compatible services aim to allow integration in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and therefore support the reuse and sharing of software components in the international statistical community.
Eurostat and the ESS are currently working on the development of CSPA-compatible services for data validation.
Eurostat maintains a catalogue of CSPA services available in the ESS (accessible from the UNECE CSPA Global Artefacts Catalogue).
More details on CSPA.