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Countrystat




CountrySTAT is an international Food and Agriculture statistical information system to allow the harmonization of national Data and Metadata . Sponsored by the United Nations Food And Agriculture Organization , it organizes data for analysis and policy making.

CountrySTAT was created by the FAO Statistics Division in response to requests by member nations for assistance in establishing or further developing their own statistical information systems. The web-based system was developed since May , Kenya , and Ghana during 2005 .


OVERVIEW


The CountrySTAT web system is a browser oriented statistical framework to organize, harmonize and synchronize data collections.
CountrySTAT aims are to facilitate data use by policy makers and researchers. It provides statistical standards, data exchange tools and related methods without using external data sources such as databases. The data source is a text file in a specific format, called px-file. The application supports many languages. The layout can be easily changed to match the needs of users.

FEATURES

The CountrySTAT web system is easy to install and to operate on a standard Windows XP professional machine. It is programmed in ASP with Visual Basic using Internet Information Service and suitable windows software for graphical and statistical output for the intranet and internet environment.


CRITICISMS

The programming with VB scripts, customized DLLs and additional windows software ( PC-Axis family ) makes it to a platform dependently software only run with the internet information server on a Windows server machine. To use it with the internet requires an own dedicated windows server.


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