GIS in Central Statistical Office Poland www.stat.gov.pl Marek Pieniążek Ph.D. chief specialist Central Statistical Office Regional and Environmental Surveys Department Aleja Niepodległości 208 00-925, Warszawa, Poland Tel : +48 224494036 E-mail: m.pieniazek@stat.gov.pl ESTP course on Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Use of GIS for making statistics in a production environment Statistics Norway, Oslo, 26th to 30th of March 2012 Attribution (by) Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform the work and make derivative works based on it only if they give the author or licensor the credits in the manner specified by these. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Status of use of GIS in production and dissemination of statistics Methodological Works National Official Register of Territorial Division of the Country TERYT National Population and Housing Census 2011 NSP 2011 Agricultural Census 2010 PSR 2010

Rules for handling confidentiality NO individual data less than three entities higher than the three-fourths of the total Publication Law on Official Statistics (1995; No 88, item 439) Statistical confidentiality (art. 10 and art. 38) Regulation by The Prime Minister (1999; No 75.842) on the ways and forms of announcing, disseminating and propagating result statistical information CSO are working on special regulations for geostatistical data

Software in use MapInfo ArcGIS Open sources i.g. QuantumGIS Mainly single-use license About 10-20% of staff generally for making cartographic illustrations ArcGIS Concurrent-use license Tool for analysts analyzing spatial information compiling geographic data managing geographic information in a database i.g. National Official Register of Territorial Division of the Country creating maps Open sources i.g. QuantumGIS Methodological studies, special projects etc.

Organization and staff Central Statistical Office Regional Statistical Offices Service units Department… RSO WROCŁAW Statistical Computing Centre Programming and Coordination of Statistical Surveys Department Local Data Bank Centre Regional and Environmental Surveys Department RSO POZNAŃ Institute in Radom Centre for Urban Statistics Institute in Łódź Methodology, Standards and Registers Department Small Areas Statistics Centre Unit… Unit… Department… Department… RSO… RSO…

Regional and Environmental Surveys Department The task: initiate, programme and prepare methodology and to conduct regional surveys on a countrywide scale; to prepare regional aggregated studies and analyses; to coordinate work of the units of official statistics services in the field of regional surveys; to initiate research work and to programme and conduct methodological work, to coordinate surveys, to prepare and publish statistical survey and analysis results concerning the condition, risk and protection of the environment and water management, environment quality, and the economic aspects of the environmental protection, including environmental accounts.

Availability of basis geostatistical units Geostatistical portal Project is running First results Census 2011 (population, dwellings) Local Data Bank NUTS levels LAU levels Statistical locality (available since 2011)

Data access policy Consultation stage INSPIRE rules Free for administrative units and self-government units Free for all (reading only) Paid access for business entities