Definition: Stovepipe model

Category: General concept

Business model where the production processes are organised by distinct statistical products. This expression is used to illustrate how statistics are traditionally produced within the ESS, i.e. in numerous parallel processes, country by country (even sometimes region by region) and domain per domain. In such a model every single product stovepipe corresponds to a specific domain of statistics, together with the corresponding production system. For each domain, the whole production process from survey design over data collection and processing to dissemination takes place independently of other domains, and each domain has its own data suppliers and user groups. The stovepipe model is also reflected in the way statistical domains are regulated at the European level. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/coded_files/TERMS-IN-STATISTICS_version_4-0.pdf