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 maintains a catalogue of CSPA services available in the ESS (accessible from the UNECE CSPA Global Artefacts Catalogue).
More details on CSPA.