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Smet J M A (1996) Data Dictionaries in the Netherlands New Technology
in the Human Services Vol:9(3) pp.18-22 Abstract As in other countries information is essential for policy development in the Netherlands'. In order to make information available to all parties in the welfare sector, it seemed necessary to maintain a national consultative body of broad composition. The information from the institutions must be usable on a national level and the national statistics must be relevant to the institutions. From that reason the Platform Welfare Informationprovision (PWI) was created. In order to understand the Dutch approach it is important to distinguish between the various kinds of information. So far PWI has mainly focused on data on institutions and their activities and on the subsidies by municipal (and provincial) governments. This is called source information. In the Eerste structuurschets welzijn (First Structure Outline Welfare) (March 1993) we expressly opted for this and it is up to the management of the institutions to provide the requested data for the national surveys. A direct link to client registration systems is not necessary. This paper is restricted to the question of how this source information can be made available as policy information according to the national model, by means of data dictionaries (GFOs) and intermediary centres. |
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