Contract aims to improve quality and accuracy of data captured during the five-yearly national head-count...
IBM has signed a two-year agreement with Statistics New Zealand, the country’s major source of official statistics, for the provision of imaging services for the 2011 Census.
Under the agreement, IBM Global Business Services will provide consulting services, systems integration and support services for the supply of imaging services with scanning, recognition and data repair applications.
Statistics New Zealand has selected IBM’s Intelligent Forms Processing (IFP) solution, which uses optical and intelligent character recognition (OCR/ICR) and data repair technologies to capture images and data from documents.
IBM’s IFP solution will allow Statistics New Zealand to scale from small to very large processing volumes. For the 2011 Census – scheduled for March 8, 2011 – this means increasing scale to process more than four million paper forms in just a few months.
The strategy for the 2011 Census is to maintain an emphasis on data quality and consistency. IBM says it IFP technology will improve the quality, accuracy and effectiveness of the Statistics New Zealand 2011 Census data collection and business process, while integrating it with existing applications.
IBM was also chosen by Statistics New Zealand for the provision of imaging services for the 2006 Census.
