COMMON STATISTICAL PRODUCTION ARCHITECTURE

CSPA is a set of common principles and standards designed to promote greater interoperability among the different stakeholders that make up the ecosystem of official statistics.  The CSPA provides guidelines for defining, developing and deploying statistical services more efficiently.

business PROCESSES LAYER

Generic Statistical Business Process Model
Business Architecture covers all the activities undertaken by a statistical organization, including those undertaken to conceptualize, design, build and maintain information and application assets used in the production of statistical outputs.  Business Architecture drives the Information, Application and Technology architectures for a statistical organization.

INFORMATION LAYER

Generic Statistical Information Model
Information Architecture classifies the information and knowledge assets gathered, produced and used within the Business Architecture. It also describes the information standards and frameworks that underpin the statistical information. This layer facilitates discoverability and accessibility, leading to greater reuse and sharing. 

SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS LAYER

The  CPSA Global Artefacts Catalogue is a description of the major logical grouping of capabilities that manage the data objects necessary to process the data and support the business.  This layer details the structure of components, their inter-relationships, and the principles and guidelines governing their design and evolution over time.

TECHNOLOGY LAYER

Technology Architecture describes the IT infrastructure required to support the deployment of business services, data services and applications services, including hardware, middleware and networks.