Providing statistical data towards SDMX and INSPIRE

H.I.REUTER

DG ESTAT –

E.4 - GISCO

ESTAT

Overview

• Eurostat and its responsibilities

• SDMX and its importance's for statistical data distribution

• Towards INSPIRE

ESTATEurostat

What is Eurostat?

• The statistical office of the European Union

• Mission: to be the leading provider of high quality statistics on Europe.

• A General Directorate of the European Commission - Commissioner Algirdas Šemeta

• The central institution of the European Statistical System - a network of National Statistical Institutes from all EU and EFTA Countries - based in Luxembourg - ~ 800 staff

ESTATEurostat

Responsibilities of Eurostat

• Collect data from NSIs

• Harmonise methods, definitions & classifications

• Compile European aggregates – EU & Euro area

• Disseminate statistics

ESTATEurostat

Euro-indicators• Monthly

• Flash Inflation & Inflation (HICP)• Unemployment• External trade• Industrial production• Industrial producer prices• Construction output• Retail trade

• Quarterly• GDP (flash, 2nd) • Current account (1st, 2nd) • Employment• Labour Cost• Quarterly Sectoral Accounts (Households & Business)• Government debt• House price index

• Public Deficit & Debt – April & October

ESTATEurostat

Dissemination Chain

• Twice daily – Embargo times 11:00 and 23:00

• Full Data Dump (Google, Reuters, ….)

• Datasets in tsv (tab separated values), dft and sdmx format

• SDMX REST+SOAP services

ESTAT

Overview

• Eurostat and its responsibilities

• SDMX and its importance's for statistical data distribution

• Towards INSPIRE

ESTAT

ESTAT

Layers of Architecture

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Business

Layer

Information

Layer

Implementation

Layer

ESTAT

Similarities

GSBPM

CSPA

ESTAT

... sharing is easier!

ESTAT

Let's get technical....

ESTAT

Supported protocols & operations

Webservice Operation

SOAPSDMX 2.0

SOAPSDMX 2.1

RESTSDMX 2.1

To get the list of available data sets

QueryStructure GetDataflow dataflow

To get a data structure definition

QueryStructure GetDataStructure datastructure

To get the data GetGenericData GetGenericData data

ESTAT

Example

• Get data structure

• http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/SDMX/diss-web/rest/datastructure/ESTAT/DSD_hlth_cd_acdr

• Get data

• http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/SDMX/diss-web/rest/data/hlth_cd_acdr/..T.TOTAL.C33_C34.NL22/?startperiod=2009&endPeriod=2010

ESTAT

Details about usage for Jan 2014

• Bulk download (600GB)

• Data explorer, Database Extraction, TGM each ~ 500k,

• International Trade Extraction – 82k

• User sessions ~ 3M

• SDMX Rest/Soap ~ 7k

ESTAT

Overview

• Eurostat and its responsibilities

• SDMX and its importance's for statistical data distribution

• Towards INSPIRE

ESTAT

GISCO

• Eurostat service which promotes and stimulates the use of GIS within the European Statistical System and the Commission.

• It is responsible for the management and dissemination of the Geographical reference database of the Commission. (Maps, spatial analysis, geo-referencing of statistics, user support).

• GISCO is one of the leaders of the INSPIRE initiative, supporting the implementation of the directive for the establishment of a European Spatial Data Infrastructure.

ESTAT

Examples : Inspire@EC –Population grid

ESTAT

Statistical Atlas

ESTAT

Grants Merging Statistics and Geospatial Information

• Facilitate implementation of GI into Statistical process

• Addressed at National Statistical Institutes

• Spatial distribution of statistical phenomena and causes

• New statistical data/ improved data management

• Interactive statistical map applications

ESTAT

Use Cases

Commuting flows

Health Statistics

Population Grid Statistics

ESTAT

Migration Flow Analysis

Urban Adress register

ESTAT

Conclusions

1. Wide variety of applications/datasets for in- and outside EC

2. Fostering collaboration between NSI and NMA –contributing to INSPIRE

3. providing MetaData Portal and reference data for EC / public

• INSPIRE/OGC and STATISTICS can learn from each other

• production with daily dissemination (STATS)

• interchangeable software products (GIS)

ESTAT

Overview

• Eurostat and its responsibilities

• SDMX and its importance's for statistical data distribution

• Towards INSPIRE

ESTAT

Thanks for your attention