1. Index of Locations for Statistics in Europe (point for information)
Simo Pasi
2-3 April 2009
Meeting of the Working Group on Rail Transport Statistics
Agenda point: 6

2. Contents of this presentation
Background
Contents of ILSE
Media
ILSE CD
WebILSE
“Flat files”
Future
Data request:
For 2010, from NUTS 2003 to NUTS 2006
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Meeting of the Working Group on Rail Transport Statistics
Agenda point:6

3. Meeting of the Working Group on Rail Transport Statistics
Contents of ILSE
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Meeting of the Working Group on Rail Transport Statistics
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4. Meeting of the Working Group on Rail Transport Statistics
ILSE Media: ILSE CD
Off-line since 2001 (at least)
Current version :
Location data, used for reporting road freight statistics, is compliant with NUTS 2006
Data used for Rail and Modal Split Indicators still based on NUTS 2003
Distributed to road freight correspondents in early 2009
MS Access database
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Meeting of the Working Group on Rail Transport Statistics
Agenda point:6

5. Meeting of the Working Group on Rail Transport Statistics
ILSE Media: WebILSE
Prototype online since December 2008
Data from ILSE CD version (December 2007): NUTS 2006 for road – NUTS 2003 for others
Hopefully available on the Commission site 2nd half of 2009
Rail and MSI parts available in NUTS 2006 at the end of 2009
2-3 April 2009
Meeting of the Working Group on Rail Transport Statistics
Agenda point:6

6. ILSE Media:“Flat files”
Available on different media:
ILSE CD
CIRCA
WebILSE prototype
To be used in Reporting Countries’ database management systems
2-3 April 2009
Meeting of the Working Group on Rail Transport Statistics
Agenda point:6

7. Future- NUTS 2006 in 2010 data collection (Annex F)
Changes from NUTS 2003 to NUTS 2006 (NUTS-2):
BG : changes in NUTS-2
DK: newly divided into NUTS-2 regions
DE: in “Sachsen Anhalt”, 3 NUTS-2 regions merged into 1
PL: reorganisation of NUTS
SI: split into 2 NUTS-2 regions
UK: Changes in North Eastern Scotland and Highlands
BG and RO: changes in NUTS-2
Other countries:
Verification of the list of railway stations
Files on CIRCA: “Library > /02. Rail /5. Methodology /Tools for ...on 91/2003 /UIC2NUTS -... (Annex F)”
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Meeting of the Working Group on Rail Transport Statistics
Agenda point:6

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Practicalities:
Download country specific files from CIRCA
Ask national rail administration to check the codes
Station codes
Station names
Corresponding NUTS-2 codes
Send revised file back to Eurostat (rail contact person) by 30/6/2009
Files will be made available on CIRCA and in WebILSE (December 2009)
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Meeting of the Working Group on Rail Transport Statistics
Agenda point:6

9. Meeting of the Working Group on Rail Transport Statistics
Thank you for your attention! If time and technology allow… a demonstration of WebILSE:
2-3 April 2009
Meeting of the Working Group on Rail Transport Statistics
Agenda point:6