1. Nicola Brun Nordic Forum for Geostatistics 30-31.5.2017
Nordic Mobility
Nicola Brun
Nordic Forum for Geostatistics

2. The project
Nordic project on cross-border mobility and benefits (Statistisk utredning över nordisk rörlighet och förmåner över gränserna)
3-year joint Nordic project coordinated by Statistics Finland (2016 – 2018)
Financed by the Nordic Council of Ministers (1,5 M€)
Participants:
Statistiska centralbyrån (SCB),
Danmarks Statistik (DSt),
Statistisk sentralbyrå (SSB) and
Hagstofa Íslands (HI)
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3. Objective
To develop and produce statistics describing the mobility of people in the Nordic Region -> cross-border statistics
Included statistical areas:
migration
employment and commuting
attendance in education and
completed education
If possible also statistics on:
social benefits
mobility aspects on businesses
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4. Background -1
Long history of freedom of movement and exchanges in labour in the Nordic Region
Significant especially in the border areas: Öresund, Västra Götaland/Värmland, Torneå-Haparanda…
Obstacles to freedom of movement identified and listed by The Freedom of Movement Council
Freedom of Movement database
”It should be possible for private individuals and companies to move, commute, study or conduct business as freely as possible across borders in the Nordic Region without fear of of getting caught up in red tape.”
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5. Background -2
No comprehensive statistics available on either cross-border mobility nor the amount of people potentially affected by obstacles of freedom of movement
Earlier projects (not updated)
Nordisk pendlingskarta
StatNord
Regional statistics (on-going)
Öresundsdatabasen
Västra Götalandsregionen: Statistikdatabas
Project started during Finland’s Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers 2016
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6. Cross-border statistics
Requires data exchanges between all country pairs
Individual data from registers
Data matched using names and date of birth
Benchmarking earlier and on-going project’s methods
Enriching data & trying to find new angles
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7. Production process Bilateral exchange of individual data
Matched data is enriched and aggregated to tables
Tables by countries are compiled to Nordic tables
Dissemination of compiled tables
Country of residence
Country of education
Step 1. Pick the population (15 years or more) per and send it with identification data to the country of education.
Step 2. Match the data to find the highest education in education register. Add variables from education register and return the dataset to the country of residence.
Step 3. Process the received data and add the dataset to the education register in the country of residence.
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8. Outcome Time span for the statistics: 2008 – 2015 (2016)
Regional level: when possible by municipality, otherwise by region (NUTS3)
Statistics on
Completed education in another Nordic country
Migration between Nordic countries incl. status of and/or background data for migrant
Studies in another Nordic country
Commuting between Nordic countries
First “round”: exchange between all possible country pairs
Complementing national registers
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9. Dissemination Dissemination from a Nordic point of view:
Nordic Statistics Database: tables
iLibrary: indicators
Nordregio: maps?
Dissemination from national point of view:
Blogs, articles
Statistical releases?
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10. Timetable 2017
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11. Issues… Sounds easy on paper, but…
Nordic statistical institutes have a lot in common, but also a lot of differences: sources, definitions, methods, variables, statistics, timetables, languages
A LOT of legal issues due to the exchange of individual data!
Several agreements: bilateral agreements for each statistical area between all country pairs
Ownership of data (in different steps of the process)
Storage of microdata
The future?
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12. Going on now
Project group meeting and workshop on income in Stockholm last week
First data exchange agreements signed (highest education)
First data transfer next week
First statistics during June?
Next data exchange agreements (attendance in education)
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13. Nordic cooperation
Joint project  Project group plans the data content and tables, agrees on variables and methods, plan timetable and dissemination
Basecamp &
Project group meetings
Workshop meetings for experts in a certain subject area
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14. Project group members SCB: Therese Hedlund Sara Ekmark SSB:
Helge Næsheim
DST:
Klaus Munch Haagensen
Katja Marie Kaaber
HI:
Ómar Harðarson
SF:
Kaija Ruotsalainen (project leader)
Heidi Myllylä
Nicola Brun
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Nicola Brun

15. Thank you!
Presentation of the project for the Freedom of Movement Council in IKEA Haparanda 12/2016
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