Application of new technology in household survey
The State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan together with the help of expert and methodology of UNICEF implemented survey on deprivation by the application of modern information technology. By the purpose of preparation of operative and more complete statistical data in online regime were used tablet-type computers.
The advantage of this first experience of technological innovation among the statistical agencies of developed countries is not using the paper during the collection of data. Statistical data had been loaded into the tablet type computers, inserted into tables and saved through touch screen and transferred directly to the special address of the Committee’s server network through the special software package in any web space. Comprehensiveness of inquiry had been checked by means of logical control software compiled to minimize errors probability during the survey. Statistical data entered to the server is afterward transformed into database files and accepted for processing.
In the current year it is considered application of this technology in a household budget survey by stages and full application in price observations.