1. Introduction Introduction to EFGS and GIS.
A proposal
Against the background of the seven hypotheses presented in this document, the European Forum for Geostatistics (EFGS), under a generous grant from EUROSTAT, have from the beginning of this year started work on the GEOSTAT ESSnet project. The project consortium of nine NSI’s is led by Statistics Norway. The need to take action for the integration of geography and statistics should not be limited to the European scale.
We therefore propose:
The establishment of a Global Forum For Geostatistics (GFGS) to serve as a professional reference group (PRG) for Geostatistics and provide a professional link between UN and the NSI’s in issues related to this field.. This PRG will primarily be concerned with questions related to the integration of geography (GSDI projects) and statistics (GEOSTAT)
The initiation of a joint UN spatial data infrastructure (SDI) project for geostatistics. This is the first step towards a GSDI based Global Integrated Information System (GGIISS) and should be developed in close cooperation with the national mapping agency (NMA) -led GSDI and INSPIRE projects.
The initiation of the GEOSTAT GSSgrid project to provide a high-resolution harmonised infrastructure for geostatistics liberated from administrative areas and demonstrating its power and utility through a UN project to plot the global population on km grids.
Keywords: GSDI (Global Spatial Data Infrastructure), GSS (Global Statistical System), Small area statistics, GIS (Geographical Information System), GGIISS (Global Geographic Integrated Information Systems of Systems)
Mr Vilni Verner Holst Bloch
MSc Resourcs Geography and Landscape Ecology
Statistics Norway
460 Construction and service statistics
Oterveien 23
N-2225 Kongsvinger NORWAY
Tel:
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ESTP course on Geographic Information Systems (GIS):
Use of GIS in NSIs – Representing statistics on thematic maps Basic Level
Statistics Norway, Kongsvinger, 5th to 7th of March 2013
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2. Content
European Forum for GeoStatistics Background Website Conferences Projects
Geographical Information Systems Overall context Business proces model

3. EFGS Background
EFGS started as a voluntary cooperation between National Statistical Institutions (NSIs) in the Nordic countries in 1998, on use of geographic information systems (GIS) and statistics.
Today EFGS has national contact persons from 32 European states and territories, having annual conferences and meetings.
The Steering Committee consists of the national contact persons from the NSIs that participate in the ESSnet project GEOSTAT, mainly funded by Eurostat.
Activities are concentrated on the development of the best practices in the production of geostatistics in Europe.
EFGS aims at beeing a global forum and umbrella organisation from conference in Brazil in 2014.
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4. EFGS Website elements

5. EFGS Conferences 1998 - 2014 1998 Voss, Norway 2000 Stockholm, Sweden
2002 Oslo, Norway
2003 Helsinki, Finland
2004 Copenhagen, Denmark
2005 Stockholm, Sweden
2006 Kongsvinger, Norway
2007 Helsinki, Finland
2008 Bled, Slovenia
2009 den Haag, The Netherlands
2010 Tallinn, Estonia
2011 Lisboa, Portugal
2012 Prague, Czech Republic
2013 Sofia, Bulgaria
2014 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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6. ESSnet GEOSTAT projects
Recommendations
1: The GEOSTAT grid dataset
…referenced to … Grid_ETRS89-LAEA…
2: … dataset should have a grid cell size of 1km². 3: … cell code example ‘1kmN2599E4695’ … 4: … Absolute counts of the statistical units (such as number of inhabitants, households, buildings, workplaces) should be disseminated without any restrictions…
5: … downloaded free of charge…
6: … dataset version 1 … reference year The next version … reference year 2011.
7: … quality … in the form of INSPIRE metadata encoded in ISO xml files. The production process should be documented per grid data source and country.
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7. EFGS Recommendations
1: Datum and projection. Grid data for the European GEOSTAT dataset will be referenced to the European Grid Grid_ETRS89-LAEA_1K.
2: Cell size. The GEOSTAT grid dataset will have a grid cell size of km².
3: Cell code. The cell code is composed of the size of the cell and the coordinates of the lower left cell corner in ETRS89-LAEA. The cell code "1kmN2599E4695" identifies the 1km grid cell with coordinates of the lower left corner: Y= m, X= m.
4: Disclosure. The GEOSTAT project recommends that data protection measures should depend on the delicacy of variables. Absolute counts of the statistical units (e.g. inhabitants, households, buildings, workplaces) should be disseminated without any restriction, even for the smallest grid sizes.
5: Availability. The GEOSTAT dataset can be downloaded free of charge and without usage restrictions in a packagage of a csv file with the statistical data, a grid net shape file and an INSPIRE metadata file in ISO19139 encoding. The dataset can be downloaded from the EFGS website and from the Eurostat website.
6: Reference year. The GEOSTAT 1A dataset version 1 will have the reference year The GEOSTAT 1B dataset will have the reference year 2011.
7: Quality and metadata. The data quality of the GEOSTAT dataset version 1 will be in the form of INSPIRE metadata encoded in ISO19139 xml files. The production process will be documented per grid data source and country.

8. Dissemination of results
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9. EFGS and a global vision
27th of July 2011: UN Economic and Social Council
sets up Committee on Global Geospatial Information
Building the infrastructure for the gathering, validation, compilation and dissemination of geospatial information is … as important for countries as the building of roads and telecommunications networks...
…UN take the lead role and serve as the coordinating entity of the global geospatial information community, hence the decision to create the committee…
The committee is mandated, … with providing a platform for the development of effective strategies on how to build and strengthen national capacity on geospatial information, especially in developing countries.
… compile and disseminate best practices and experiences of national, regional and international bodies on geospatial information related
to legal instruments, management models and technical standards, thus contributing to the establishment of spatial data infrastructures.
The committee will comprise experts from all Member States, as well as from international organizations, who will serve as observers.
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10. Vision for a Global forum
EFGS members – cover a population of > *
ARGENTINA AUSTRIA
BRAZIL
BULGARIA CROATIA
CZECH REPUBLIC DENMARK ECUADOR ESTONIA
EUROSTAT
FINLAND
FRANCE
GEORGIA
GERMANY
GREECE (ELLADA)
HUNGARY
ICELAND
INDONESIA IRELAND
ITALY
KOSOVO
LATVIA
LITHUANIA
THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
MEXICO
THE NETHERLANDS
NORWAY
POLAND
PORTUGAL
ROMANIA
SLOVAKIA
SLOVENIA
SPAIN
SWEDEN
SWITZERLAND
TURKEY
UNITED KINGDOM
ÅLAND
In addition good contact with Australia, New Zeeland, Japan and more countries in Latin America
*UN 2010

11. EFGS in growth After 2010 2010 Before 2010
From a few small and homogenic to many and diverse
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12. EFGS Task forces - voluntaires
EFGS Business Models
Expert Consultant Erik Sommer Vitus Berings Alle Klampenborg Denmark Phone:
EFGS Dissemination
Web editor Diana Makarenko-Piirsalu Mere tee 15, Saviranna Harjumaa Estonia Phone:
EFGS Global Actions Executive Director
Lars Backer Valhallavägen Stockholm Sweden Phone:
You are welcome to join

13. Geographic information system
Geographic information system (GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of geographical data. The acronym GIS is sometimes used for geographical information science or geospatial information studies to refer to the academic discipline or career of working with geographic information systems. In the simplest terms, GIS is the merging of cartography, statistical analysis, and database technology.

14. Use of common and open tools
Open source (OS)
Open format
Open standards
OS software
Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is available in source code form: the source code and certain other rights normally reserved for copyright holders are provided under a free software license that permits users to study, change, improve and at times also to distribute the software.
Open source software is very often developed in a public, collaborative manner. Open-source software is the most prominent example of open-source development and often compared to (technically defined) user-generated content or (legally defined) open content movements.
A report by the Standish Group states that adoption of open-source software models has resulted in savings of about $60 billion per year to consumers

15. Parts of infrastructure. Examples.
Geographic analysis
and web presentation
Statistical tools
Data mining
Geocoding
services
Office tools and
front ends
Operating Systems
platforms
Legal issues
Standards etc
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16. Guidelines and recommendations

17. Statistical Business Process Model

18. Statistical production process
Specify needs 1
Develop and design 2
Build 3
Collect 4
Process 5
Analyse 6
Disseminate 7
Consult and confirm need
1.2
Check data availability
1.4
Establish output objectives
1.3
Prepare business case
1.5
Prepare data for dissemination database
7.1
Produce product
7.2
Release and promote product
7.3
Classify and code
5.1
Micro-edit
5.2
Macro-control
5.3
Impute for partial non-response
5.4
Interpret and explain statistics
6.4
Establish frame and registers, select sample
4.1
Set up collection
4.2
Run collection
4.3
Finalise collection
4.4
Outputs
2.1
Data collection methodology
2.3
Process and analysis methodology
2.4
Production system
2.5
Integrate production system with other systems
3.2
Test production system
3.3
Finalise production system
3.4
Acquire domain intelligence
6.1
Produce statistics
6.2
Prepare statistics for dissemination
6.5
Finalise content
6.6
Frame, register and sample methodology
2.2
Determine need for information
1.1
Manage user queries
7.4
Calculate weights and derive
variables
5.5
Quality assure statistics
6.3
Build and enhance process components
3.1
#1 make a map of the infrastructure

19. Example on Infrastructure : Geoportal

20. GIS @ NSI Training courses
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