GEOSTAT 1B Final Management Report – February 2014

GEOSTAT 1B

FINAL MANAGEMENT REPORT

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GEOSTAT 1B FINAL REPORT

Grant Agreement number: 50502.2009.004-2011.536

Project acronym:

Project title: GEOSTAT 1B – Representing census data in European population grid

Periodic report: Final

Period covered: from: 01/01-2012 to: 31/12-2013

Name, title and organisation of the scientific representative of the project's coordinator:

Ola Nordbeck, Adviser, Statistics Norway

Tel: 0047 21 09 48 78

E-mail: ola.nordbeck@ssb.no

Project website address: www.efgs.info

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Contents

1. Introduction/summary............................................................................................................ 4

Important results and outcomes from the GEOSTAT 1B project ................................................ 5 2. Work Completion .................................................................................................................... 6

WP-1A Testing and quality assessment ....................................................................................... 7 WP-1B Geostatistics by disaggregation or mixed methods ......................................................... 8 WP-1C Geostatistics by aggregation ......................................................................................... 11

WP-1D Integration of population grid data ............................................................................... 13 WP-2 Data sharing and data policy............................................................................................ 15 2.1: Negotiations regarding the integration of additional variables. .......................................... 15 2.2: Outline for a shared business model ................................................................................... 16 2.3: Outline for a distributed system of services ........................................................................ 17

WP-3 Project website ................................................................................................................. 18 3.1: Continuous maintenance and improvement of the EFGS website. ..................................... 18

WP-4 Exploitation, distribution and dissemination ................................................................... 19

4.1: Closer relationship between the GEOSTAT project and the international Geostatistics

community. ................................................................................................................................ 19 4.2 Conferences and Workshops ................................................................................................ 19 Sub task 4.3: Promotion material ............................................................................................... 22

4.4: Presentations, posters and papers at conferences to reach potential users of the EU

GEOSTAT dataset. .................................................................................................................... 22

4.5: Monitoring the INSPIRE process and especially issues related to the GEOSTAT 1B

project......................................................................................................................................... 23 4.6: Road map for the continuation of EFGS and the work towards European population grids.

.................................................................................................................................................... 23 3. Final Deliverables and Milestones tables ............................................................................ 25

4. Project management ............................................................................................................. 27

5. Dissemination action towards the ESS ................................................................................ 29

6. Final use of resources ............................................................................................................ 33

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1. Introduction/summary

This report is a result of the efforts in the GEOSTAT 1B project. This project is following the

initial GEOSTAT 1A project with the aim of developing guidelines for datasets and methods

in order to link population statistics from the Census 2010/2011 to a common harmonised

grid.

The project consortium was based on partners in the European Forum for Geostatistics

(EFGS) as beneficiaries and as voluntary contributors. Many of these were also involved in

the GEOSTAT 1A project and are important for the sustainability of the GEOSTAT action.

The main objective of the GEOSTAT 1B project was to make guidelines for others, primary

national statistical institutes (NSIs), to follow for making gridded population statistics in a

harmonised way. The guidelines will be produced for NSIs categorised as a representatives of

the:

- “Aggregation approach” (also called bottom-up approach). Referring to countries who

have georeferenced population registers or georeferenced population census data and

who need to sum population data to an aggregated level. In this case 1 km2 grids.

- “Hybrid approach” (also called mixed methods). Referring to countries who have a

blend of population data from georeferenced register data to calculated population

estimates using satellite imagery.

The guidelines were tested in the project and population grid datasets were generated

including variables as the total population as well as population divided by age groups and sex

for certain countries depending on national dissemination practices and confidentiality rules..

In order to highlight the potential of grid statistics the project developed a series of case

studies where the population gridded statistics were combined with spatial data. The most

important case study was here the “access to emergency hospitals study” where the population

data was combined with georeferenced emergency hospitals and road networks.

The project handled also licensing issues for disseminating grid statistics easily without

restrictions and this work resulted in an “Open license template” to be used by NSIs

producing grid statistics. Another important topic in the project has been to study the

consequences of different confidentiality policies in between the NSIs and to come with

recommendations.

Dissemination of the procedures and the progress in the GEOSTAT 1B has also been a

priority in the project, reaching out via the upgraded project website (EFGS.info) and in

workshops and conferences. Organising the EFGS Conferences in Prague and Sofia has also

allowed the geostatistics community in the more eastern regions of Europe to have an easier

access to the progress made within the GEOSTAT projects.

The project partners in the GEOSTAT 1B were the NSIs of Bulgaria, Czech Republic,

Estonia, Finland, Portugal and Norway. The project was also assisted by a subcontractor

called MD Mapping. For contact details see http://www.efgs.info/about.

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For more information and contact details see; EFGS website http://www.efgs.info/geostat/1B

and the CROS portal of the project: http://www.cros-portal.eu/content/geostat-1b .

Important results and outcomes from the GEOSTAT 1B project

Population data following guidelines

The guidelines have been used and followed and a list of 13 NSIs (the 6 project partners plus

7 voluntary contributors) have contributed with population data following the data

descriptions (14th of February 2014). 10 of these NSIs have also completed quality

assessment reports and attached to the population data.

Series of case studies

The project consortium has carried out a series of case studies in order to persuade more

NSI’s to produce population statistics on 1 km2 grids.

An expanding network of geostatisticians

As mentioned in the introduction the GEOSTAT 1B project has resulted in an outreach a

broader geostatistics community in form of immediate neighbouring countries to the EU27+

and academia and NSIs in countries on other continents.

Future commitments

Within the project consortium all partners have expressed their interest in producing a

GEOSTAT 2016 dataset with the same quality as the GEOSTAT 2011.

Integration of geography and statistics

The project consortium has tried to integrate the production of grid statistics into Generic

Statistical Business Process Model (GSBPM) throughout the project. These efforts resulted in

the final technical report following the statistical production chain.

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2. Work Completion

Work package 1 Geostatistics was originally divided into four work packages. The first work

package WP-1A was supposed to focus on “hands-on” work to be carried out by all project

partners in order to verify the quality of existing Pan-European population grids (mainly the

population grid of the Austrian Institute of Technology produced for Eurostat). Case studies

and a methodology for improving the existing population grids were planned to be produced

as well as prototype datasets with population data from the different partners.

WP-1B and WP-1C were supposed to assist the WP 1 partners in generating population grids

based on aggregation, disaggregation or mixed methods. The two work packages were also

supposed to create case studies in order to assess existing and new population grids.

WP-1D was meant to unify and harmonise population datasets from the various project

partners and voluntary contributors. Case studies were here planned to be used in order to

verify the quality of the new Pan-European datasets.

In the kick-off meeting it was agreed between the project group and Eurostat that regarding

WP-1A the main contribution of the project should focus on providing assistance to and/or

test data of European disaggregation projects for quality evaluation purposes. The provision

of test data and assistance have been within the limits set by data confidentiality and business

interests of the participating NSIs. Advise on how to possibly improve disaggregation

techniques based on national expertise has been welcomed, but the project group was not

expected to actually develop European disaggregation datasets. Rather, disaggregation work

by the consortium has focused on disaggregation in a national context where applicable, and

by using national data.

This have had some impacts on the project and especially on WP-1A and WP-1B where the

focus has been now more on the aggregation and hybrid approach than on the top down

approach.

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WP-1A Testing and quality assessment

A summary of progress towards objectives and details;

In accordance with the application, this project work package was about verifying the quality

of existing Pan-European population grids (mainly the population grid developed by the

Austrian Institute of Technology for Eurostat). If possible the partners were also welcome to

give advice on how to possibly improve disaggregation techniques based on national data and

expertise.

This work package was broadened to include quality assessment of all population grids

regardless production method. That will say a quality assessment adapted to the aggregation,

disaggregation and hybrid methods.

Highlight clearly significant results:

In the kick-off meeting it was decided to continue the work with the quality assessment

parameters that were developed in the GEOSTAT 1A project. This decision resulted in a

version 2.0 of the quality assessment template in 2012 that was shared with all EU27+

countries in 2013. The NSIs of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Ireland,

Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Slovenia filled in the template in 2013 (find reference to

reported Quality Assessment templates below) and provided many ideas for improving the

template to a Version 2.1. This later version is to be found on the website of EFGS.info under

following link: http://www.efgs.info/GEOSTAT/1B/guidelines/efgs-modified-quality-

assessment-parameters

Regarding the verification of the quality of existing Pan-European population grids, the work

package leader carried out an initial test and quality assessment of the disaggregated data of

the Austrian Institute of Technology in 2012. The results of these assessments can be found in

the document called “Testing and quality assessment of pan-European population grids -

based on the Norwegian experience”. http://www.cros-portal.eu/content/appendix3-testing-

and-quality-assessment-pan-european-grids

In the GEOSTAT project disaggregation techniques are important for covering the whole of

Europe with population gridded data. In 2013 a new version of a Pan-European dataset

produced by the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) was released by Eurostat.

AIT has used population data from the Population and Housing Census in administrative units

(LAU2), and spatial information on soil sealing, derived from remote sensing. In terms of

spatial disaggregation, the global parameter is the total population of the region, while the

local parameter is the assumed housing density derived from Earth Observation. Applying

housing density as a proxy for population density allows estimating the local population

distribution.

The dataset from AIT is not the only dataset that is based on this technique, and more are to

come. In the GEOSTAT 1B project some of the participants have contributed with their

knowledge and data in cooperation with data producers in order to assess the quality and also

to have some feedback on how the data can be improved. One example of such a contribution

is Statistics Finland’s support to the “Urban Atlas” work carried out as a part of the local

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component of the GMES/Copernicus land monitoring services1. This work is briefly reported

by Statistics Finland in the paper: “Testing and quality assessment of pan-European

population”.

Project deliverables to support this issue:

GEOSTAT1B Consortium 2013 EFGS modified Quality Assessment parameters V 2.1

Nordbeck, Ola Erik 2012 Testing and quality assessment of pan-European population grids

Tammilehto-Luode, Marja and Tammisto, Rina

2013 Fine-tuning a disaggregation model for Urban Atlas

GEOSTAT1B Consortium 2013 Appendix 17 EFGS MODIFIED QUALITY ASSESSMENT PARAMETERS, FILLED IN BY GEOSTAT1B CONTRIBUTORS

Other documents to support this issue produced in the framework of the GEOSTAT1B

project:

Backer, Lars H. 2013 A "Big Picture" description of production process(es) for statistics

Backer, Lars H. 2013 Systems of geostatistics and processes required to produce them

Backer, Lars H. 2013 EFGS QA A benchmarking approach

Other documents to support this issue produced in collaboration with the GEOSTAT1B

project:

Kuzma, Igor 2012 Statistical confidentiality in small area statistics dissemination

Leeuwen, Niek van 2012 Applying disclosure control on average values when publishing by different small areas

Maack, Udo. PhD 2013 Comparing the GEOSTAT population grid 2006 with municipal data in Germany

Martin, David . Prof. 2013 Sensitivity analysis of disclosure control measures

WP-1B Geostatistics by disaggregation or mixed methods

A summary of progress towards objectives, details and significant results;

The efforts in 2012 were mainly focusing on the aggregation approach. However, the

Bulgarian National Statistical Institute (BNSI) can be categorised as a representative of a

«hybrid» country in the project consortium and have until now gathered data that can be used

for aggregation. BNSI has also has also assessed how to complement existing micro data with

a top-down approach. As mentioned under WP-1A, a similar assessment was carried out by

Statistics Norway in 2012, and these efforts were joined with the efforts of BNSI in 2013.

(http://www.cros-portal.eu/content/appendix9-methodology-hybrid-approach-statistics-

bulgaria).

There is also a tradition within the GEOSTAT consortium for assisting disaggregation works

with knowledge and data. As mentioned above, Statistics Finland was in 2012 approached in

order to assist in work with the Urban Atlas. Other requests for assistance from the

GEOSTAT 1B partners came from the NSIs in Turkey, Croatia and Spain.

The Czech Statistical Office has also studied the possibilities for using disaggregation

methods in their work with producing population grids for previous years to 2011. Also when

processing the Population and Housing Census 2011, an overwhelming majority of the

population data was georeferenced into building points. This enabled the application of an

1 http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/urban-atlas

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aggregation method for producing a population grid. However, there are about 93 000 people

(i.e. about 0.9 % of the total census population), who could be linked only to the level of

statistical districts, but not to the exact place of usual residence (e.g. homeless people, people

living in buildings without final approval or in emergency buildings or shelters). The

distribution of these persons into the exact place (with x,y coordinates) or alternatively into

grids, must be conducted through some disaggregation method.

This case study shows different methods on how to disperse disperse people not assigned to

an exact place of residence ither into fictive places of usual residence, or into grids. The

methods are applied via ArcGIS software on spatial example of a small town (Abertamy) in

the northern part of the Czech Republic very close to Germany. The paper discusses these

methods and indicates their advantages and disadvantages. The final solution for the Czech

Republic will be adopted before publishing Population and Housing census results in grid

format. This is further described in the case study report of the Statistical Office of Czech

Republic: (http://www.cros-portal.eu/content/appendix-16-disaggregation-methods-

georeferencing-inhabitants-unknown-place-residence-case)

Another case study, carried out by Statistics Norway, assessed the possibility for using a

hybrid methodology in order to follow how the green spaces in and around urban

environments have been affected by the extensive urban development in European cities. The

objective of this case study was to combine building register data, land use data and satellite

imagery in order to follow changes in vegetation caused by construction activities and land

use change. The results from this study were promising and even with low resolution satellite

imagery it was possible to follow changes in vegetation in various land use categories. Large

scale construction works were also possible to detect and, with better imagery and higher

resolution, in the future this approach can become even more relevant.

The reason why this is of such an interest now, is that from 2015 it will be possible to

supplement information from map databases and registers with satellite data from the

European satellite Sentinel-2. In order to be prepared for data from the Sentinel-2 satellite,

this study tested how this approach can function using Moderate Resolution Imaging

Spectroradiometer ( MODIS ). MODIS geographical resolution is of 250 meters, but the

temporal resolution (the frequency of observations of the same object) is similar to Sentinel-2

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Improved building and population registers, land use data and satellite imagery can result in a

better understanding of the changes in the urban environment and where they occur in relation

to the population distribution.

Most of the partners in the GEOSTAT 1B project are privileged to have georeferenced

registers and have therefore little need to disaggregate data for generating population on 1km2

grids. However, the hybrid methodology can also be used when exploring the vegetation

changes in and around urban areas. The case study resulted in a stepwise methodology that is

applicable and promising for the years to come: (http://www.cros-portal.eu/content/appendix-

14-vegatation-change-detection-statistical-institutes-case-study-combining-building)

Project deliverables to support this issue:

Ahmedov, Arslan and Dudova, Irena

2013 Methodology for generating Bulgarian population grid 2011

Kraus, Jaroslav 2012 Comparison of bottom-up and top-down methods used to create grid data from the Population and Housing Census 2011, report

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Nordbeck, Ola Erik 2013 Vegetation change detection methodology for statistical institutes - A case study for combining building register data with satellite imagery

Other documents to support this issue produced in the framework of the GEOSTAT 1B

project:

Backer, Lars H. 2013 On the top-down process

Ahmedov, Arslan and Dudova, Irena

2013 Prototype of Bulgarian Population Grid 2011 (Hybrid solution in producing grid statistics)

Kraus, Jaroslav 2012 Comparison of bottom-up and top-down methods used to create grid data from the Population and Housing Census 2011, presentation

Kraus, Jaroslav and Moravec, Stepan

2013 Disaggregation Methods for Georeferencing Inhabitans with Unknown Place of Residence: the Case Study of Population Census 2011 in the Czech Republic

Moravec, Stepan 2013 QA Czech republic

Nordbeck, Ola Erik and Ahmedov, Arslan

2012 An ideal way of integrating the spatial dimension into the statistical production chain - Does it exist?

Santos , Ana 2013 Using the European Grid ETRS89/ LAEA_PT_1K as the foundation for the new Portuguese Sampling Infrastructure

Other documents to support this issue produced in collaboration with the GEOSTAT 1B

project:

Bueno, Maria do Carmo 2013 Brazilian Statistical Grid – a hybrid approach

Casares, Serafín Ojeda 2013 A population grid for Andalusia (Spain)

Crkvenčić, Branko 2012 GIS in Croatian Bureau of Statistics

Duque, Ignacio 2012 Small statistical units in Spain: Enumeration Districts, Nomenclátor and Grid

Duque, Ignacio 2013 Using Census 2011 geodata of Spain

Halkia, Matina 2013 Buildings Foot Prints

Krüger, Tobias 2012 High Resolution Land Use Information by combined Analysis of Digital Landscape Models and Statistical Data Sets

Loonis, Vincent 2013 Building area sampling with tax files

MacManus, Kytt 2012 Methods of Reconciling Geographic Boundaries in Integrated Research

Poelman, Hugo 2013 Measuring access to public transport in cities and regions

Rosina, Konstantin and Hurbánek, Pavol

2012 Top-down population density grid based on European land monitoring services

Rosina, Konstantin. PhD student 2013 An improved method for population disaggregation based on European land monitoring services

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WP-1C Geostatistics by aggregation

A summary and significant results of progress towards objectives and details;

The main effort in 2012 was on establishing a methodology for generating population grids

based on the aggregation approach and collected input from various project partners. The

work is finished, and the results were placed on EFGS website as training material early in

2013. (http://www.cros-portal.eu/content/appendix1-production-procedures-aggregation-

method).

The methodology report for the aggregation approach was based on the experiences of the

various partners. These so-called “Production case studies” are included in an appendix to the

methodology report. As a part of the production process, each partner assessed the quality of

the existing Pan-European grid net country clip. (http://www.cros-

portal.eu/content/appendix1-production-procedures-aggregation-method).

The “Production case studies” are one type of case studies in the project. The other type of

case studies are so-called “Operational case studies”. “Operational case studies” are,

according to the project definition, case studies that demonstrate useful applications of

population grid data and in that way potentially increase the interest for grid statistics.

In the kick-off meeting, the following topics were suggested: ageing society, employment,

research and development, climate change, energy, education, poverty and social exclusion.

In the GEOSTAT 1B project the project partners agreed on working together on a case study

calculating the population within 30 minutes from emergency hospitals. (http://www.cros-

portal.eu/content/appendix-11-access-emergency-hospitals)

The aim of this case study was to show the possibilities as well as the advantages of using

population data in GRID format. Another part of this case study has been to study the

consequences of data confidentiality policies applied by various NSIs.

This case study is making use of the 1km² GEOSTAT 2011 population grid in combination

with georeferenced road networks and emergency hospitals in order to determine the

population’s travel time to emergency hospitals. The population within 30 minutes driving

distance is divided into various groups of age and sex.The idea was here to generate statistics

by age groups and as addressed in the kick-off meeting to focus on the age group above 65.

In the European context this study has similarities to The European Core Health Indicators

(ECHI). ECHI is a list of 88 health indicators . One of these is indicator 80: Equity of access

to health care services, which is based on survey results and include a question about travel

distance to medical care2.

Using GIS (Geographical Information Systems) for studying travel time to emergency

hospitals can complement the surveys of Eurostat and be an input into ECHI’s indicator 80.

This examples therefore also illustrates how the use of GIS and geospatial information can

support the statistical production process and improve quality and efficiency of data

collections (spatial analysis instead of usually expensive sampling).

2 http://www.echim.org/docs/Final_Report_II_2012.pdf

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Project deliverables to support this issue:

The GEOSTAT 1B Consortium 2013 Production procedures bottom up

The GEOSTAT 1B Consortium 2013 Access to emergency hospitals

Other documents to support this issue produced in the framework of the GEOSTAT1B

project:

Ahmedov, Arslan and Dudova, Irena

2013 Production case studies for generating a harmonised European population grid

Backer, Lars H. 2012 The table or database method

Tammilehto-Luode, Marja 2012 Workflow to create grid data

Other documents to support this issue produced in collaboration with the GEOSTAT1B

project:

Corcoran, Dermot 2012 Exploiting the potential for Geostatistics in the Republic of Ireland

Kuzma, Igor 2013 Mobile statistics in Slovenia - First contact

Moravec, Stepan 2013 Training material Czech republic

Moravec, Stepan 2013 Case studies Czech republic

Piela, Pasi 2013 Enabling a national road and street database in population statistics: Commuting distances for all employed persons and other accessibility statistics

Shala, Idriz 2012 A Population grid for the Republic of Kosovo

Shala, Idriz 2013 Statistical Data Dissemination by Census Atlas

Udržalová, Zdeňka 2012 Statistics, Geodata and Our Way to Geoinformation

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WP-1D Integration of population grid data

A summary of progress towards objectives and details for each task;

The main effort in 2012 was on establishing a methodological framework to ensure that data

delivery from the various population data contributors were easy to integrate into a Pan-

European grid. This methodological framework was used by the various project partners

carrying out their work with building, collecting and processing their population data. This

work resulted in short production case studies per project partner and in the iterative process

of the action these production case studies were used for adjusting the methodological

framework. (http://www.cros-portal.eu/content/appendix1-production-procedures-

aggregation-method).

Based on these amendments and the updates of the training material, an invitation letter was

sent out in March 2013 asking all European NSIs (EU27 +) to use the material and to

contribute to the GEOSTAT population grid (http://www.efgs.info/geostat/1B/invitation).

Based on this request as of 1.1.2014, the following countries contributed to the GEOSTAT

2011 grid:

Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway,

Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden and Switzerland.

Some NSIs are about to finalise their Population and Housing census data for 2011 and have

expressed interest in sharing data with Eurostat in 2014/2015.

The data contributions have all followed the structure of the GEOSTAT 1B guidelines. This

has made the integration and harmonisation work of individual contributions easier than it

was in the GEOSTAT 1A project.

Highlight clearly significant results:

Guidelines for producing population grid data per country according to the aggregation

method have beendeveloped as mentioned under work package 1A to 1C. A letter requesting

data delivery from all NSIs was sent out in 2013. Population data following the guidelines

developed were received from 12 countries.

A draft poster of the GEOSTAT 2011 data Version 0.1 (October 2013) was produced by

Eurostat to the EFGS Conference in Sofia 2013. A version 1.0 is expected to be produced

based on the contributions by January 2014.

Project deliverables to support this issue:

The GEOSTAT 1B Consortium 2013 Production procedures bottom up

The GEOSTAT 1B Consortium 2013 Invitation letter

Other documents to support this issue produced in the framework of the GEOSTAT1B

project:

Petri, Ekkehard 2013 The integration of statistics and geospatial information in Europe – can the EFGS make the loose ends meet?

Petri, Ekkehard 2013 GEOSTAT 2011 – A population grid for Europe representing the Census 2011

Other documents to support this issue produced in collaboration with the GEOSTAT1B

project:

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Bloch, Vilni Verner Holst 2012 Population Census and European Neonatal Health Statistics

Goerlich, Francisco. PhD 2012 Urban Morphological Zones for Spain: Urban indicators from an Object Oriented Land Cover data base and a population grid

Goerlich, Francisco. PhD 2013 Urban/Rural Areas: Population density (from a 1 km2 grid), land cover and remoteness as basic elements for an urban/rural typology at LAU2 level.

Haldorson, Marie 2013 Key note - Inspired by new possibilities

Horák, Jiří 2012 Gridded register-based data for detail spatio-temporal monitoring and modelling. Vision of data harmonisation and integration

Kugler, Tracy 2012 Terra Populus: Integrated Data on Population and Environment

Milego, Roger 2012 Harmonised population time-series (1990-2010) for Europe by means of the OLAP technology

Moström, Jerker 2012 What's going on out there? - Gridded data for detection of pressure on land use

Moström, Jerker 2013 Improved statistics on urban green space

Poelman, Hugo 2012 Towards indicators of proximity to services in Europe's major cities

Resano, Elsa 2012 National Dwelling Inventory

Sedláček, Miloš 2012 LUCAS (Land Use / Cover Area Frame Statistical Survey)

Silva, Filipe Batista e 2012 Detailed population distribution maps for Europe´s cities

Strand, Geir-Harald . PhD 2013 Grids for pan-European land monitoring

Turnalieva, Lilyana 2013 Geoinformation & INSPIRE in Bulgaria

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WP-2 Data sharing and data policy

2.1: Negotiations regarding the integration of additional variables.

A summary of progress towards objectives and details for each task;

In line with the recommendations of GEOSTAT 1A the project partners in GEOSTAT 1B

agreed that the total population should be considered as official statistics; free of charge and

without disclosure to be reported on 1 km2 grid cells.

In order to obtain more population variables/breakdowns the project asked for more

population variables in the invitation letter sent in 2013

(http://www.efgs.info/geostat/1B/invitation).

Based on the project partners’ population data the project conducted a so-called “operational

case study”, referred to under “WP-1C Geostatistics by aggregation” above. In this case

study, issues regarding confidentiality policies and population breakdowns were assessed.

This assessment provided an overview of the consequences of applying various

confidentiality thresholds on population data (including breakdowns): (http://www.cros-

portal.eu/content/appendix-11-access-emergency-hospitals).

A web survey was conducted in 2012, showing that most members of EFGS will publish their

Population and Housing censuses before mid-2013. The project defined a serie of

recommended variables for reporting from the NSIs.

Highlight clearly significant results:

As a result of the EFGS 2012 web survey (http://www.cros-

portal.eu/sites/default/files//Appendix12_WP2_EFGS2012_websurvey.pdf), the project

produced a list of variables and statistical units to be recommended as standard and official

grid statistics. Throughout the project these variables were modified by the project partners

and this resulted in a new list of variables, focusing on population variables:

(http://www.efgs.info/geostat/1B/guidelines/efgs-standard-for-official-statistics-population-

variables)

This list of “open core data set” variables is based upon a selection of recommendations from

UN on thematic maps for Population and Housing census atlases3.

Based on the data request from the project, the following NSIs contributed with some or all

the population breakdowns to the GEOSTAT 2011 grid:

Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal and

Slovenia. However, it become clear that for the 2011 census providing all the breakdowns is

difficult for many countries, mainly due to unsovled confidentiality and data license issues.

3 pp. 155, United Nations (2008). Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses

Revision 2. United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Statistics Division. New York, 2008.

ST/ESA/STAT/SER.M/67/Rev.2 Statistical papers Series M No. 67/Rev.2

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The “operational case study” resulted in an overview of potential consequences of applying

various confidentiality thresholds on population data (including breakdowns):

(http://www.cros-portal.eu/content/appendix-11-access-emergency-hospitals)

In short, these thresholds may result in that the advantages of grid statistics are lost due to

suppression of grid cells with number of people below a certain threshold.

Statistics Finland dealt with this issue by protecting all population breakdowns where the total

population is below 10 persons per grid cell. Nevertheless, the total population was still

provided for values below 10 persons per grid cell.

Project deliverables to support this issue:

The GEOSTAT 1B Consortium 2013 Access to emergency hospitals

The GEOSTAT 1B Consortium 2013 GEOSTAT2011 grid Invitation letter to contribution The GEOSTAT 1B Consortium 2013 EFGS Standard for official statistics population variables

Other documents to support this issue produced in the framework of the GEOSTAT1B

project:

Bloch, Vilni Verner Holst (ed.) 2013 EFGS Standard for official statistics

Bloch, Vilni Verner Holst (ed.) 2012 EFGS Standard for official statistics all variables

2.2: Outline for a shared business model

A summary of progress towards objectives and details for each task;

This task is concerned with the development of a proposal for a shared business modell. It has

been assumed that all NSIs will provide their part of a dataset providing the spatial

distribution of their total population on km grids with no obligations attached.

The introduction of further variables require a shared business model. This is based on

previous discussions in connection with INSPIRE and the GEOSTAT ESSnet 1A project. The

task force has discussed and proposed a common open licence model for European grid data

sets. As a result of the EFGS 2012 web survey, core datasets for grid statistics have been

recommended as standard for official grid statistics, see section 2.1. above. For these core

data sets for grid statistics, a common open data licence has been elaborated.

Highlight clearly significant results:

A first version of a business model has been developed, see annex for EFGS template for

open data licence. This is intended as a first version for official grid statistics, and is based

upon the open data licence made by the National Land Survey of Finland.

Project deliverables to support this issue:

Bloch, Vilni Verner Holst (ed.) 2013 EFGS open data license template

Other documents to support this issue produced in the framework of the GEOSTAT1B

project:

Sommer, Erik. EFGS Consultant 2012 Market watch/Business report - Grid statistics

Sommer, Erik. EFGS Consultant 2012 EFGS 2012 Market Report

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2.3: Outline for a distributed system of services

A summary of progress towards objectives and details for each task;

This sub task was about making an outline for a distributed system of services to view, buy

and download national bi- and multilateral datasets. This issue started as part of the

GEOSTAT 1A project and was resumed as a part of the tasks to be executed during the

GEOSTAT 1B project.

In order to carry out this task, the work package leader drafted a distribution system for the

production of bi- and multilateral datasets. This system was supposed to build on the results

of the GEOSTAT 1A WP3 (infrastructure) and to be further developed in cooperation with

the responsible for the GEOSTAT ESSnet 1B WP4.4 (the person responsible for contacts

with the INSPIRE project). We have previously discussed the need for a distributed solution

that can guarantee a harmonised dataset in cross border situations (to serve as a foundation

for bi- and multilateral projects). (ref to WP 4 for maintenance of grid dataset after 2013).

Highlight clearly significant results:

The project has revealed that more work needs to be done in order to have a streamlined

system for distribution of services to view, buy and download datasets from different NSIs.

Although some preliminary standards have been set for datasets and metadata, policies with

respect to dissemination of data still vary considerably. Although most NSIs have a sort of

open data policy, conditions for use and fees should be investigated more.

Documents to support this issue:

Schmitz, Carole 2012 Describing Mexican Population: GIS in Census - Data Dissemination and Making Decisions

Voženílek, Vít 2012 Geovisualisation of Statistical Data within Spatial Data Infrastructure

Wardzińska-Sharif, Amelia 2012 Geostatistics Portal in Poland

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WP-3 Project website

3.1: Continuous maintenance and improvement of the EFGS website.

A summary of progress towards objectives and details for each task;

Continuous maintenance and improvement of the EFGS website. The website is the reference

point for the promotion of European geocoded statistics and help make the project results

visible on the web. It is regularly updated with information from the project and from the

scientific community, together with case studies on Geostatistics from EFGS members and

beyond.

Highlight clearly significant results:

A new design for the website has been developed. The Eurostat logo has been included on

front page. All material from EFGS 2012 and 2013 conferences in Prague and Sofia has been

uploaded. News about Map of the Month has been published on a volontary basis. The

GEOSTAT 1B project has been more visible on front page with an own prominent entrance.

The number of visitors to the website has grown steadily. Most visitors come from European

countries, national statistical institutes and research institutions. However, with more focus on

global issues, more and more visitors come from countries outside Europe. During 2013-2014

more than 16 000 individuals have visited the website, making more than 70 000 page views.

Documents to support this issue:

Bloch, Vilni Verner Holst (ed.) 2012 EFGS 2012 Prague conference

Bloch, Vilni Verner Holst (ed.) 2012 ESTP 2012 course in Geostatistics

Bloch, Vilni Verner Holst (ed.) 2013 EFGS 2013 Sofia conference

Bloch, Vilni Verner Holst (ed.) 2013 ESTP 2013 course in Geostatistics

Bloch, Vilni Verner Holst (ed.) 2013 Google Analytics reports (Not available yet) The GEOSTAT 1B Consortium 2012 EFGS 2012 Prague conference

The GEOSTAT 1B Consortium 2013 EFGS 2013 Sofia conference

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WP-4 Exploitation, distribution and dissemination

4.1: Closer relationship between the GEOSTAT project and the international Geostatistics community.

A summary of progress towards objectives and details for each task;

During 2012 and 2013 the GEOSTAT partners have deepened the relationship between the

GEOSTAT project and the international geostatistics community. The international

geostatistics community includes academia and NSIs inside and outside the EU 27+ area. The

collection of national states may be divided into two rough groups;

-The first group consists of immediate neighbouring countries to the EU27+ that are

interested in a harmonisation of their datasets with those of the GEOSTAT project.

- The second group relates to countries on other continents.

Highlight clearly significant results:

Interest from EU and immediate neighbours surrounding the EU territory

Already before the project started several NSIs agreed on being voluntary contributors to the

GEOSTAT project. Being a voluntary contributor is about being willing to share knowledge

and data with the project. In the last years’ EFGS conferences it has been noticed a higher

presence of Eastern European countries. This is a positive development that was strengthened

as a result of having the EFGS 2013 conference in Sofia. The National Statistical Institute of

Bulgaria’s engagement in the GEOSTAT 1B project has resulted in an increased interest from

their neighbouring countries (the NSIs of Romania, Turkey and Greece) in establishing

population grids.

Interest from the Global geostatistics community

NSIs, academia and key user communities have further been invited to discuss the idea of a

more accurate global aggregation approach, based system of point statistics. A provisional

committee, consisting of representatives from the EFGS and the NSI Brazil will make the first

move towards a Global meeting in the second half of 2015. This task force had its kick-off

meeting in the end of November 2013, with participants from CIESIN, JRC, Eurostat, EFGS,

Brazil, Spain and Portugal.

4.2 Conferences and Workshops

A summary of progress towards objectives and details for each task;

4.2.1 GISCO workshops and EFGS conferences

GISCO workshop 2012

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The GEOSTAT project was very visible at the joint NSI and NMA GISCO workshop

organised in Luxembourg on the 8-9th of March 2012. A whole session (3) during the second

day was dedicated to the GEOSTAT project. The issue was elaborated through a series of

presentations. The meeting informed about the coming activities of the GEOSTAT 1B project

and gave an appeal to all NSIs to become voluntary data contributors to the GEOSTAT

project.

The EFGS conference 2012

The EFGS 2012 conference was held in Prague from the 24th

to the 26th

of October and was

hosted by the Czech Statistical Office. The conference program consisted of a Keynote

session, a set of Working sessions all focusing on production issues directly or indirectly

related to the GEOSTAT project, and a closing session with focus on the way forward. This

conference was organized and financed via the GEOSTAT 1B action. For more information,

see http://www.czso.cz/efgs/efgs2012.nsf/i/home

GISCO workshop 2013

The GEOSTAT project was very visible also at the joint NSI and NMA GISCO workshop

organised in Luxembourg on the 14th-15th of March 2013. The meeting informed about the

coming activities of the GEOSTAT 1B project and gave an appeal to all NSIs to become

voluntary data contributors to the GEOSTAT project. The meeting announced also the EFGS

conference in Sofia 2013.

The EFGS conference 2013

The EFGS 2012 conference was held in Sofia 23rd

-25th

of October and was hosted by the

National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria. The conference program consisted of a Keynote

session, a set of Working sessions all focusing on production issues directly or indirectly

related to the GEOSTAT project, and a closing session with a focus on the way forward. This

conference was organized and financed via the GEOSTAT 1B action. For more information

see http://www.nsi.bg/efgs2013/

4.2.2 GEOSTAT 1B project workshops

In the GEOSTAT 1B project five workshops have been organised. Minutes have been

prepared for all meetings and the presentations are stored and published on the webiste of

EFGS.info. The Eurostat contact person has attended all meetings.

1. Workshop 1 February 2012, Oslo

The purpose of this workshop was to make the participants aware of the Grant

Agreement, discuss expectations and organisation of the project, agree on amendments

(if needed) and to assess the quality and be aware of ways to improve existing

population grids

2. Workshop 13-15th

of June 2012, Oslo

The objective of this workshop was to finalise the set of quality variables, to prepare

training material that can be used by NSIs when generating population grids, to get

more familiar with the EFGS.info website, to find out more about which additional

statistical units and variables we can report on and to discuss a shared business model

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for data dissemination. The workshop also discussed the preparations in front of the

EFGS conference in Prague.

3. Project meeting in front of EFGS conference 24th October 2012, Prague, Czech

Republic. The purpose of this meetingwas to present a status report of the project and

to inform the project partners what was expected until the end of 2012. The aim until

the end of the year was finalise training material.

4. Workshop 29th

-31st of May 2013, Sofia

This workshop was originally planned to be held in Oslo, but due to the preparations

in front of the EFGS conference in Sofia in October 2013, the participants decided to

move the workshop to Sofia.

The objective of this workshop was to get more familiar with the work carried out by

the National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria regarding population grid production

following the hybrid approach.

The workshop also discussed the two case studies following the aggregation and

hybrid approach. The different participants agreed on a way forward for the

aggregation case study: Access to emergency hospitals.

Based on the invitation letter sent out in front of the GISCO workshop in March 2013,

the project received test data from various NSIs including population data and forms

with quality assessment parameters. The partners agreed on that the population data

was completed as intended and saw no need for changes to the guidelines. Regarding

the quality assessment parameters, some needs for modification were identified and

the guidelines were updated accordingly.

The draft of the technical report was also presented and received comments from the

workshop participants.

5. Project meeting in front of EFGS conference 22nd October 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria.

The purpose of this meeting was to present a status report of the project and to identify

any needs for prioritising tasks until the end of the project.

Highlight clearly significant results:

The project specific workshops made it possible to keep close contact between the project

partners throughout the project. They allowed the partners to concentrate their efforts just in

front of, during and just after the workshops. The GISCO Workshop and the EFGS

conferences functioned as milestones throughout the project.

The organisation of the EFGS 2012 Prague and Sofia conferences functioned well with very

competent assistance by the hosting NSIs and the GEOSTAT1B Consortium. The conferences

were, in spite of the deepening economic crisis in Europe, attended by 70 geostatisticians

mainly from the EU27+ NSI’s.

The GISCO workshop and EFGS Conferences are two important annual meeting occasions

enabling close ties in the European geostatistics community. These ties result in that all

participating NSIs feel an ownership to the GEOSTAT projects and are willing to contribute

to their success.

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From EFGS point of view the EFGS conferences resulted in the the creation of a five year

framework for Geostatistical activities (see “The EFGS 2012 Prague Way Forward”), and the

EFGS Prague initiative for establishing a taskforce for the integration of geography and

statistics (See “The EFGS 2012 Prague Initiative”).

Sub task 4.3: Promotion material

A summary of progress towards objectives and details for each task;

The most important products are:

1. The EFGS.info website

The Website represents the largest single source of promotion material that has been

produced for the GEOSTAT 1B project. For more information see work package 3.

2. The GEOSTAT 1B flyer

We have produced and used the GEOSTAT 1B flyer on several occasions throughout

the project.

3. Posters

a. Production flowchart, based on the production case studies for generating

population grid: “Contribute to the GEOSTAT1B population grid”

b. A draft poster of the GEOSTAT 2011 data Version 0.1 (October 2013) was

produced by Eurostat to the EFGS Conference in Sofia 2013. A version 1.0 is

expected to be produced based on the contributions by January 2014.

Highlight clearly significant results:

The most significant result is an upgraded EFGS website and the draft poster of the

GEOSTAT 2011 data.

4.4: Presentations, posters and papers at conferences to reach potential users of the EU GEOSTAT dataset.

A summary of progress towards objectives and details for each task;

In addition to the EFGS website, the EFGS conference and the GISCO workshop the project

disseminated their products at:

ESTGIS conference Pärnu, Estonia, 30th of November until the 1

st of December 2012.

ESSnet workshop, Rome, Italy, 3rd

until the 4th of December 2012.

ESSnet workshop, European Modernisation Workshop, Valencia, Spain, 23rd until the 24th

January 2014

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4.5: Monitoring the INSPIRE process and especially issues related to the GEOSTAT 1B project

A summary of progress towards objectives and details for each task;

The project has tried to get a better understanding of how the finalisation of INSPIRE Annex

3 data specification will impact the production of population grids in the framework of

GEOSTAT 1B.

INSPIRE Annex 3 includes both Population distribution - demography package and the

Statistical Units package. The GEOSTAT1B is concerned by both packages since Population

distribution - demography package mainly handles the statistical values/indices and that these

are attached to spatial objects defined in the Statistical Units package (statistical grids).

Highlight clearly significant results:

The project did not manage to find out how the finalisation of INSPIRE Annex 3 will affect

the production of population grids and will therefore continue advocating for the use of the

INSPIRE adapted grid (see chapter 2.1 Output in the final technical report) and metadata

standard (see chapter 2.2 Goal for product quality in the final technical report) of EFGS.

Documents to support this issue:

Haldorson, Marie 2013 Key note - Inspired by new possibilities

4.6: Road map for the continuation of EFGS and the work towards European population grids.

A summary of progress towards objectives and details for each task;

As referred to under the other tasks under work package 4, various efforts have been made in

order to ensure the sustainability of GEOSTAT and the EFGS after the GEOSTAT projects.

The concern is that in many countries the 2011 Population and Housing census has not

established a permanent and sustainable infrastructure for the production of population grid

statistics and that many of the investments made could be wasted in the long term if not

prolonged. The project and the EFGS have drafted a road map towards a point based

foundation for the ESS.

Contacts have been made with several UN task forces working on the integration of statistics

and geospatial information (UN-GGIM task force) and on the upcoming round of censuses

(UNECE task force) to ensure that grid statistics aspects will be taken into consideration in

their recommendations.

Highlight clearly significant results:

A general draft has been developed towards a long term roadmap to describe the task of

designing, producing, implementing, using and testing the evolution of a point-based

foundation for the ESS over a series of two-year projects from and including the GEOSTAT

1B project to the implementation of Grid statistics in the EU 2020 round of national

Population and Housing censuses. This draft should be further developed and elaborated over

a series of iterations.

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Throughout the GEOSTAT 1B project, Statistics Portugal has accomplished significant

results in the development of a sampling approach in order to make future production of grid

data easier. Within the project consortium all partners have expressed their interest in

producing a GEOSTAT 2016 dataset with the same quality as the GEOSTAT 2011.

Documents to support this issue:

Backer, Lars H. 2012 In search of a Shared Vision

Backer, Lars H. 2012 In search of the Way Forward

Backer, Lars H. 2012 Proposal for the EFGS 2012 Prague Declaration

Backer, Lars H. 2013 GGIM and the GEOSTAT Projects

Backer, Lars H. 2013 In search of a way forward for the EFGS

Backer, Lars H. 2012 EFGS Project proposals

Backer, Lars H. 2013 Notes towards a Eurostat taskforce for the integration of geography and statistics

Backer, Lars H. 2012 The EFGS 2012 Prague initiative

Backer, Lars H. 2013 A way forward for the European Forum for Geostatistics (EFGS)

Backer, Lars H. 2013 The GEOSTAT taskforce for the integration of geography and statistics

Backer, Lars H. 2012 The EFGS 2012 Prague Declaration

Backer, Lars H. 2013 A roadmap towards the integration of grid statistics into the ESS

Bloch, Vilni Verner Holst and Nordbeck, Ola Erik

2012 ESSnet GEOSTAT 1B presentation in Rome 2012

Bloch, Vilni Verner Holst. 2012 The past and present of the EFGS project

Bloch, Vilni Verner Holst. 2013 President of EFGS about "EFGS project"

MacManus, Kytt 2013 The Influence of Statistical Inputs on Global Gridded Geospatial Datasets

Nordbeck, Ola Erik 2013 How To GEOSTAT Your Census Data

Nordbeck, Ola Erik 2013 Contribute to the GEOSTAT1B popgrid

Nordbeck, Ola Erik and Ahmedov, Arslan

2013 Spatial dimension into the statistical production chain

Nordbeck, Ola Erik (ed.) 2013 GEOSTAT 1B presented at GISCO 2013

Petri, Ekkehard 2012 Towards a better integration of statistics and geography - an ESS strategy

Petri, Ekkehard 2013 Eurostat about GGIM and the EGIM in Europe

Tammilehto-Luode, Marja 2013 The Finnish geoportal and statistical data

Tammisto, Rina 2012 Production processes for a harmonised European population grid in Finland

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3. Final Deliverables and Milestones tables

Table 1: Deliverables List

Del.

no. Deliverable name

WP

no.

Date

due

Actual

delivery

date

Comments

1

ESSnet FINAL REPORT GEOSTAT 1B 0 2013 2013

Proposed in order

to replace

individual WP

reports, revised

2014

2 ESSnet Final management report GEOSTAT 1B 0 2013 2014

3 ESSnet Intermediary management report GEOSTAT 1B 0 2012 2012 Revised 2013

4 Minutes of workshops and teleconference 0 2013 2013

Cont. Updated on

EFGS website

5 Action plan 0 2013 2013

Cont. Updated on

EFGS website

6 Testing and quality assessment of Pan-European

population grids 1A 2012 2012

7 EFGS modified Quality Assessment parameters V 2.1 1A 2012 2012

Proposed, revised

2013

8 Fine-tuning a disaggregation model for Urban Atlas 1A 2013 2013 Proposed

9 Filled in Quality Assessment templates of the

GEOSTAT_grid_POP_1K_ALL_2011_QA 1A 2013 2013 Proposed

10

Prototype datasets 1A 2013 2013

Cancelled,

duplication. see

WP1A and WP1B

11 Bulgarian population grid 2011, methodology + data 1B 2013 2014

12

Comparison of bottom-up and top-down methods used to

create grid data from the Population and Housing Census

2011, case study report 1B 2013 2013

13

Vegetation change detection methodology for statistical

institutes - A case study for combining building register

data with satellite imagery 1B 2013 2013

14 Production procedures aggregation method, report 1C 2013 2013

15 GEOSTAT 2011 datasets 1C 2013 2013 Version 1,0 2014

16 GEOSTAT 1B case study: Access to emergency hospitals 1C 2013 2013

17

Dataset and methodology 1D 2013 2013

Cancelled,

duplication. see

WP1A and WP1B

18 GEOSTAT2011 grid Invitation letter to contribution 1D 2013 2013

19 How to Contribute to the GEOSTAT1B population grid

poster A0 1D 2013 2013

20 EFGS Standard for official statistics population variables

V1.0 2A 2013 2013

21 EFGS open data license template 2A 2013 2013

22 Google Analytics reports 3 2013 2014

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Table 2: Milestones List

Milestone

no.

Milestone name Workpackage

no.

Date due Actual date Comments

1 EFGS Conference

2012

WP-1A, 1C

and 4

Aggregation

methodology and

guidelines vs 1

2 End of 2012 WP-0, 1A, 1C,

2 and 3

Intermediary

report,

aggregation

methodology and

guidelines vs 2,

website

3 GISCO 2013 WP-1A, 1C, 2

and 3

Aggregation

methodology and

guidelines vs 1

4 EFGS Conference

2013

WP-1A, 1B,

1C and 4

Hybrid

methodology and

case studies

5 End of 2013 All WPs

6 GISCO 2014 All WPs

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4. Project management

1. The GEOSTAT projects have been successful due to the existing inter-NSI networks

established as a result of the yearly GISCO workshops and the existence of the European

Forum for Geostatistics EFGS. The GISCO workshop and EFGS Conferences are two

important annual meeting occasions and allow close ties to be made between members of the

European geostatistics community. These ties result in that all NSIs participating in these

meeting occassions feel an ownership to the GEOSTAT projects and are willing to contribute

to their success, often on a voluntary basis.

The GEOSTAT 1B project used the GISCO workshops in 2012 and 2013 to present the

developments in the project. In order to increase the workshop audience’s interest in the project

they were also asked to contribute actively:

- In 2012 the project requested the audience to prioritise the project tasks and detected the urge

for developing a methodology paper for producing population grids following the aggregation

approach

- In 2013 the project invited the GISCO audience to follow the methodology and guidelines

developed in the first year of the project as requested in 2012. The project asked also the

audience to choose in between a selection of case studies and got very positive feedback that

helped the project to proceed with its work.

2. The existing networks have expanded even further to the international geostatistics

community throughout the GEOSTAT 1B project to include two new groups:

-The immediate neighbouring countries to the EU27+ that are interested in a harmonisation of

their datasets with those of the GEOSTAT project.

- Academia and NSIs in countries on other continents.

For more information about the closer relationship between the GEOSTAT project and the

international Geostatistics community see Work Package 4.

3. In order to ensure that the project planning was followed, it was agreed in the kick-off meeting

(first workshop) in Oslo to concentrate the efforts just in front of, during and after the various

project workshops. Under the sub task 4.2.2 description above, a list of project workshops are

listed. These workshops were initiated with an invitation and a list of items to be handled. The

project partners agreed at each occasion to do some preparatory work in front of the workshops

in order to make these meetings as productive as possible. After each workshop the results were

summed up and followed by a list of follow-up issues to be handled before next meeting

occasion. This approach work well and in combination with telephone conferences the milestone

list was followed.

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4. During the GEOSTAT project there has also been established an infrastructure for organising

the EFGS Conferences. The work has been coordinated by the consultant in the project who have

organised committees to plan and conduct the conferences. Already early in the project a

committee was established including the host of the 2012 EFGS Conference, but also including

the host of the 2011and 2013 EFGS Conferences. This ensured a sound exchange of experiences

in order to make the conferences as fruitful as possible. This was repeated in the preparatory

work for the 2013 EFGS Conference in Sofia.

5. The project website was developed during the first year of the project, having a new and more

professional design. The new design was built around the EFGS logo made by Statistics Portugal

in 2011. The website has been used for uploading presentations, papers, posters, flyers, training

material, news and events. All partners and numerous ESS countries have contributed. The

website was also used for the project including action plans and minutes from meetings.

An important contribution to the website has also been the work carried out by the EFGS web

editor, Diana Makarenko-Piirsalu, who has kept the site updated.

6. Proposals to improve the project management;

It has become evident that a professional expert group like the EFGS is a key success factor

for involving more NSIs than just the project partners already during the project. This means

that the project manager should also be visible in EFGS activities and EFGS steering

committee members should be involved in the running of the GEOSTAT projects. The efforts

made in order to finance EFGS activities in parallel to the GEOSTAT projects are very

positive in this regards as well as the financing of the website of EFGS.info and the EFGS

Conferences.

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5. Dissemination action towards the ESS

The overview table show each major activity having taken place. Major events have been

described in detail under the work package 4 descriptions, about conferences, workshops and

courses.

Table 3: Overview Table

Dates Type

Type of

audience

Countries

addressed

Size of

audience

Partner

responsible

involved

2012/2013 Project web-site4 ESS ALL

2012/2013 Direct e-mailing ESS NO

2012 Mar GISCO Workshop ESS ALL

2012 Mar ESTP Course5 ESS NO,SE,LU,DK;

EE

2012 Oct EFGS Prague Conference6 ESS ESS ALL

2013 Mar GISCO Workshop ESS ALL

2013 Dec ESS Workshop – Rome, Italy ESS NO

2013 Mar ESTP Course7 ESS NO,EE,LU

2013 Sep NFGS Copenhagen Conference8 NO

2013 Oct EFGS Sofia Conference9 ESS ESS ALL

Guidelines, handbooks ESS ALL

Contributions to standards ALL

Posters ESS NO, LU

Flyers ESS NO

2014 Jan European Modernisation Workshop

- Valencia 2014

ESS ESS NO

Participants at ESTP 2013 Kongsvinger course

4 http://www.efgs.info/

5 http://www.efgs.info/GEOSTAT/estp-2012

6 http://www.efgs.info/workshops/efgs-2012-prague-czech-republic

7 http://www.efgs.info/GEOSTAT/estp-2013-gis-course

8 http://www.efgs.info/workshops/nfgs-2013-copenhagen-denmark

9 http://www.efgs.info/front-page/workshops/efgs-2013-sofia-bulgaria/efgs-2013-conference-1

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Participants at EFGS 2013 Sofia conference

Poster for the EFGS 2013 Sofia conference

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Number of visits by cities in Germany to EFGS website 2012-2013.

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6. Final use of resources

The final use of resources in man months is presented in the table below:

TABLE 4. RESOURCES

Work package Co-ordinator / Co-partner

WP0

WP1

WP2

WP3

WP4

TOTAL per Beneficiary

1. Statistics Norway 5 9,5 1,5 2,5 4 22,5

2. Statistics Bulgaria 7 3 10

3. Czech Statistical Office 2,5 3 5,5

4. Statistics Estonia 1 1 2

5. Statistics Finland 4,5 1 5,5

6. Statistics Portugal 1 1 2

TOTAL 5 25,5 1,5 2,5 13 47,5