Abstract

There is a close link among different stages of the data life cycle (production, integration, conservation, exchange). Statistical and geographical production processes can significantly improve and facilitate its exchange and subsequent integration with the use of standards. The information infrastructure is the set of data and methodologies that support the information production process to facilitate its interoperability and it is made up of catalogs, classifications, statistical and geographical registries, and methodologies.

The National System of Statistical and Geographical Information (SNIEG, by its Spanish acronym) Law has defined the minimum information infrastructure for each Information Subsystem: demographic and social; economic; geographical, environmental, territorial, and urban planning; and government, public safety, and justice. The use of a common information infrastructure facilitates the integration or linkage of information from different statistical and geographical production processes.

The National Institute of Statistics and Geography of Mexico (INEGI, by its Spanish acronym), with its dual function as an information producer and as SNIEG’S coordinator, has driven actions to generate statistical and geographical information infrastructure and outlining data governance activities, to clearly identify its components and facilitate data standardization and interoperability.

This poster will illustrate INEGI and SNIEG’S advancements and challenges to promote and benefit from the common use of the information infrastructure.