1. Lucas in NL Harmonised Land Use/ Land Cover Statistics, Part A
Chantal Melser & Osman Baydar, Statistics NL

2. Main datasource – Land Use Statistics
Lucas – Land Use
Main datasource – Land Use Statistics
Based on aerial photography, frequency of each 2-3 years.
With the land Use statistics as the basis, we can already assign 95 percent of the area to an harmonised Lucas category.
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3. Compliance and precision
Lucas – Land Use
Compliance and precision
Production of Land Use statistics – Mapping based GIS data. Lower limit usually 1 hectare.
Additional information makes it very accurate. Top10NL roads, water bodies.
Example – area of commercial services recognised at the unit of the individual shops.
1:10 000
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4. 95 percent Lucas – Land Use Compliance and precision
already available!
Commercial services have an equivalent dutch category in land use statistics – harmonised data already available.
Primary production is available with adding our agriculture (including greenhouses), kitchen gardens, forest, fisheries.
In this way 95 percent of the area already available.
Community services needs a combination of public facilities (official buildings), schools and health (part of our social facilities), religious services (graveyards)
Harmonisation table available in our interim report and on demand we can send it.
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5. Remaining 5 percent – establishments
Lucas – Land Use
Remaining 5 percent – establishments
To assign the remaining 5 percent to a Lucas category.
Grey – assigned to industrial area, , heavy industry, corresponding with the harbour activities.
Blue – including all kind of shops, commercial services in centre of the town.
Red - including transport networks
Yellow – including light end industry
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6. Remaining 5 percent – establishments
Lucas – Land Use
Remaining 5 percent – establishments
Area of industrial area and offices. Points of establishments with NACE-code. NACE-code harmonised with LUCAS code.
Establishments with postal code (no house number, estimation of location)
Establishments assigned to closest area, industrial area divided by number of establishments to LUCAS code.
Areas without assigned establishment – small area assigned to dominant Lucas code, larger areas (above 50 hectare) assigned manually by areal photos. (n=44).
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7. Remember… only for 5% of the total area!
Lucas – Land Use
Main uncertainties…
inaccuracy in method…
assigning establishments to areas (distance)
percentages area on number of establishments
areas without establishments - main lucas code
primary schools not included (our decision)
Remember… only for 5% of the total area!
distance sometimes large (2 km for being able to assign waste water treatment, no offices close by)
not all establishments equal in size, basic assumption
industrial area pretty sure, but community services sometimes really doubtful
primary schools are within residential areas, we rather leave these areas untouched, no other variables involved, small areas.
Main waters assigned to water transport, although that does not always cover our association with our main waters. Water is just water… However, that is also conform inspire and we will have to live with this.
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8. Harmonised data for 95% of the area
Lucas – Land Use
Nederland
Noord-Nederland (LD)
Oost-Nederland (LD)
West-Nederland (LD)
Zuid-Nederland (LD)
Groningen (PV)
Friesland (PV)
Drenthe (PV)
Overijssel (PV)
Flevoland (PV)
Gelderland (PV)
Utrecht (PV)
Noord-Holland (PV)
Zuid-Holland (PV)
Zeeland (PV)
Noord-Brabant (PV)
Limburg (PV)
Total area ha
729101
296003
574874
268037
342086
241230
513651
144912
409176
341850
293389
508176
220922
Agriculture
641230
644269
550961
443206
188470
261328
191431
240862
99858
303550
82484
161034
168952
138493
310852
132353
Forestry
344792
51657
146236
43221
103679
7577
11494
32586
34965
17657
93614
18412
13009
7925
3874
71856
31822
Mining and quarrying
5638
1951
1359
272
2056
808
377
766
528
831
131 61 81
770
1285
Aquaculture and fishing
Other primary production
Commercial services
9016
1262
2163
3925
1666
431
502
329
823
234
1105
603
1536
1509
277
1051
614
Transport networks
889200
328805
153111
362295
44989
69318
249241
10246
19232
102977
30902
11847
153613
73393
123444
32136
12853
Residential use
251321
36851
59049
92977
62443
11169
13306
12376
18725
5958
34367
15763
31814
36237
9163
41158
21283
Permanent residential use
230103
32734
51999
86909
58460
10725
11705
10304
16559
5336
30105
15059
30022
34852
6976
38691
19768
Temporary residential use
21218
4117
7050
6068
3983
444
1601
2072
2166
622
4262
704
1792
1385
2187
2467
1515
Other Uses or no socio-economic use
177006
51445
45601
57263
22696
9256
29607
12581
13707
7600
24294
4069
21828
19622
11744
17918
4777
Transitional use
36795
6166
8396
14849
7384
2518
1992
1656
2058
2600
3737
1898
4331
6499
2122
5947
1436
Abandoned areas
Natural areas not in other economic use
140211
45279
37205
42414
15312
6738
27615
10925
11649
5000
20557
2171
17497
13123
9622
11971
3341
Other use, not yet harmonised with Lucas
197668
25715
45179
78412
48366
8974
9019
7722
13244
6946
24988
11603
26281
34131
6394
32435
15935
Harmonised with Lucas
680735
287029
565855
260315
328842
234284
488663
133309
382895
307719
286995
475741
204987
Percentage of area harmonised with LUCAS
95,0
97,7
95,7
92,9
96,9
98,4
97,0
96,0
94,9
91,3
93,1
88,9
97,8
93,2
92,2
Percentage of area not yet harmonised
5,0
2,3
4,3
7,1
3,1
1,6
3,0
4,0
5,1
8,7
6,9
11,1
2,2
6,8
7,8
Results
Harmonised data for 95% of the area
Method of assigning LUCAS for remaining 5%
Nuts 1, Nuts 2, Nuts 3 and LAU
No neighbourhood level...
Conform national Land Use statistics
Data from our national database statline, internet
95% is perfectly conform national Land Use statistics.
Remaining 5% estimating does not touch polygons of areas in GIS-map, results Lucas still conform Land Use statistics
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9. Lucas categories with assigning method: U200 Secondary production
Lucas – Land Use
Main difficulties…
Lucas categories with assigning method:
U200 Secondary production
U300 Tertiary production (except U310)
U420 Logistical and storage
U430 Utilities
Remember… only for 5% of the total area!
Utilities more uncertain than most other categories.
Detailed work on community services, cultural and entertainment. Straightforward assignment on secondary and tertiary production, but still, assignment!
but I have to admit that now and then it came into my mind that the whole Lucas had agriculture as its background, and not industrial areas nor residential areas…
Most of our work deals only with these kind of areas.
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10. data delivery coming years possible Microdata access –
Lucas – Land Use
Feasibility -
data delivery coming years possible
Microdata access –
Land use statistics free available
Establishments NL
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11. Data NL Part A available after this pilot
Lucas – Land Use
Data NL Part A available after this pilot
Harmonised Lucas, aligned with national data
Quality of data increased
No field work required
Frequency each 2-3 years
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12. Thanks for your attention