Labour Market Program Data Platform – ESDC
Employment and Social Development Canada improving access to administrative data through their Labour Market Program Data Platform.
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Essolaba Aouli
Senior Data Analyst
ESDC
Transcript
Hello, my name is Essolaba Aouli, I am senior analyst in Evolution Directorate at Employment and Social Development Canada.
The project that I am proud to share with you is the Labour Market Program Data Platform. The platform is an innovation of the department supporting robust, timely and cost-effective evidence based results. It allows for greater access to administrative data to improve net impact evaluation, unemployment insurance monitoring, and assessment report, and research. The construction of the platform represents a collaborative long-term solution whose goal was to address inefficient data processing to create sustainable and user-friendly data asset.
This development represent a marked improvement over the traditional, inefficient, siloed approach where each project requires its own approval. The platform is enabled by an extensive rationale data model that integrates 20 years of the administrative data on a high performance server.
To develop the platform, it was essential to forge a horizontal partnership and apply the expertise of our colleagues across branches. Among the colleagues that we had positive exchange and shared knowledge with, included: the chief data office at the innovation, information and technology branch to leverage the appropriate infrastructure.
We also collaborated with schools and employment branch and program operations branch, who provided valuable insight into the program design and delivery, thereby promoting a better understanding of the data element and increasing the potential of the policy and program development. The platform is a data asset that puts in practice the Treasury Board Secretariat's new policy of results to increase the department's capacity for high quality and evidence based evaluation and policy analysis.
Thank you.
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