1. GIS in Central Statistical Office
Poland
Marek Pieniążek
Ph.D.
chief specialist
Central Statistical Office
Regional and Environmental Surveys Department
Aleja Niepodległości 208
00-925, Warszawa, Poland
Tel :
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
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2. 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

3. Rules for handling confidentialityNO
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 ) on the ways and forms of announcing, disseminating and propagating result statistical information
CSO are working on special regulations for geostatistical data

4. 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.

5. Organization and staff
Central Statistical Office
Regional Statistical Offices
Service units
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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
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6. 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.

7. 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)

8. 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