Summary Description 
Overview | Platforms | Type of users | Distribution of the package | Availability of the software

Overview

IRIS (Registration for International trade Statistics) is Statistics Netherlands' own alternative to the IDEP/CN8 software that is supplied by Eurostat for the collection of intra-Community trade statistics. CBS-IRIS provides for the filling of an electronic questionnaire by keying in the appropriate data. Also, some import facilities are available for the automatic inclusion of data from the respondent's computerized accounts.

The final results of data entry can be sent to the data collector by using diskette(s) or via data communication.

Platforms

CBS-IRIS runs on MS/DOS and Windows (Windows 95 and above) platforms.

Type of users

CBS-IRIS is used by enterprises providing statistical information on their intra-Community trade.

Distribution of the package

CBS Netherlands distributes CBS-IRIS to 8500 enterprises including 3500 using the Windows version. Statistisches Bundesamt in Germany distributes the MS/DOS version of CBS-IRIS to 6000 enterprises.

Availability of the software

No official license policy has been defined for CBS-IRIS. Statistisches Bundesamt and Statistics Netherlands have signed an ad hoc bilateral contract for the use of CBS-IRIS in Germany. Interested other parties may contact Statistics Netherlands for discussing this topic or bring this up in EDICOM meetings.
 

Source document containing the complete description

Doc. CoRD 019: "A brief outline on existing data collection tools and new developments at Statistics Netherlands"