LogicGem Case Study: Statistics Canada
Processing Survey Data
This case study highlights the benefits for how a governmental statistical agency, such as Statistics Canada, relies on decision tables to process a broad variety of survey data. The case study is useful for administrators in any government statistical agency to determine how their own survey data processing function can benefit from using the LogicGem logic processor.
The case study is divided into five sections: Application Profile, providing an overview of how Statistics Canada uses LogicGem technology, Business Situation, describing the specific business case for using LogicGem and various applications requiring the use of a logic processor, Technical Situation, discussing the need to be able to convert the logically verified and completed decision tables into structured SAS programming code, Solution, illustrating specific examples of how LogicGem was used to satisfy the survey data processing requirements including screen shots of representative decision tables and the resulting SAS code, and finally Benefits, which summarizes how a government statistical agency can gain benefit from using LogicGem to process survey data.