User Driven Integrated Statistical Solutions- Digital Government 
by the People for the People

Mark E. Wallace

The U.S. Census Bureau and other government agencies are exploring how
best to respond to increasing user requests for concurrent access to
multiple data sets and integrated data.  Fulfilling this vision takes
advantage of a historic opportunity for the federal statistical community
and the citizens and taxpayers of our Nation as we enter the 21st Century.

In collaboration with other government agencies, the implementation of
this vision will produce a modernized, customer-driven, cross-program, and
cross-agency integrated data access and dissemination service capability
available via statistical portals such as FedStats.  Census and other
agencies will broaden information delivery, reduce data user burden,
increase efficiency, and reduce redundancies by providing standards,
processes and tools in the administration of information integration
architectures; metadata repositories; product conception, design, and
development; and new disclosure techniques.

This paper describes these various efforts.  As they begin to succeed,
they will help build critical capabilities in the Nation’s emerging
statistical and spatial data infrastructures that will support global,
national, regional, local, and individual decision support systems.