1. Country report - Portugal
Task Force on the integration of statistics and geospatial information
item 6 of the agenda

2. Legal context
The legal situation regulating georeferencing statistics in Portugal is mainly based on the:
Transposition of the INSPIRE directive to the national law
Recently national law, that obliges the municipal authorities, when they report construction statistical data to Statistics Portugal, to georeference the new buildings and the demolished buildings that are licensed

3. Legal context Missing regulation:
To achieve a full integration of statistics and geospatial information it would be necessary to create legislation for the constitution of official national geographic datasets for:
addresses, buildings and dwellings, network roads
having unique national identification numbers, to be shared by all public authorities in their specific information systems
Missing regulation necessary to achieve full integration of statistics and geospatial information:

4. Formal responsible Institutions
INSPIRE PT implementation
Statistics Portugal are involved in four out of eleven working groups and in five themes/annex
Leader of WG02 WG
Annex / Theme
Formal responsible Institutions
WG01
I.1 Reference systems
IGP, IGEOE, IH
I.2 Geographical grid systems
IGP, IGEOE
I.3 Geographical names
IGP, IGEOE, IH, INE PT, INAG, APA, CTT
II.1 Elevation
IGP, IGEOE, IH, INAG
WG02
I.4 Administrative units
IGP, IGEOE, INAG
I.5 Addresses
INE PT, CIM, CTT
IIII.1 Statistical units
IGP, INE PT, CTT
III.10 Population distribution — demography
INE PT
WG03
I.6 Cadastral parcels
IGP, DGCI, INAG
III.2 Buildings
IGP, IGEOE, INE PT, IHRU, DGCI
Metadata and Services WG
APA, DGOT-DU,DRIGOT-RAM, INAG IP, IGeoE, IGP, IH, INE PT, LNEG I.P, SRCTE- RAA, ANMP (Câmara Municipal de Cascais)
Construção dos metadados em no MIG?
Publicação dos metadados no SNIG
Praparar serviços INSPIRE através de open source LINUX + MAPSERVER

5. Organisational setup How georeferencing activities are organised:
At Statistics Portugal there is a specific Georeferencing Unit that is integrated in the Methodology and Information Systems Department
The Georeferencing Unit has 25 technicians dispersed over the country in 5 regional delegations
The Georeferencing Unit is responsible for the development of the Spatial Data Infrastructure to support the production and dissemination of official statistics – GIS processes, editing and data quality control
Please describe how georeferencing activities are organised in your NSI.
This Unit is responsible by editing and quality control of the data.

6. Organisational setup
Powers to enforce georeferencing activities in official statistics:
The best way to enforce georeferencing activities in Statistics Portugal is to demonstrate the potentialities of geospatial information for the production and dissemination of statistical data:
We have made presentations, on the statistics Portugal Spatial Data Infrastructure, to all the services within the Methodology Department and to services of other departments
We are including geospatial data at the very beginning of the statistical production process by georeferencing the basic statistical units
We are including geospatial data within the Sampling Frame - the European GRID as the basis of our sampling frame
Please describe your powers to enforce georeferencing activities in official statistics.

7. Organisational setup
We are promoting the production of the news territorial statistics indicators combining geographical data with statistical data through spatial analysis techniques
Ability to produce statistical information from administrative registers from several sources, having a common organizational model;
The use of administrative data sources for statistics production processes, specially for small statistical units, requires an address with a pair of coordinates
The development of common georeference framework (for statistical purposes) with the other national public institutions, specially with the municipalities – the same boundaries and the same identifiers
Please describe your powers to enforce georeferencing activities in official statistics.

8. The role of SDI for statistics Data collection
Through a web application, developed in ArcgisServer for Flex, we can provide the exact location of household units that interviewers must inquire on the field
Spatial Data Infrastructure for statistical production

9. The role of SDI for statistics New territorial statistical indicators
Statistics Portugal is developing an experimental set of territorial accessibility indicators as a result of the combination of already available statistical data. The combination of geographical data with statistical data is carried out through spatial analysis techniques with the future goal of regularly producing accessibility indicators
Territorial potential accessibility to basic education/1st cycle – by foot (LAU2)
Spatial Data Infrastructure for statistical production

10. Download census boundaries
The role of SDI for statistics
Dissemination of (geo)statistical information
The geoinformation is present in official statistics portal through:
Tools to explore the spatial units used for statistical production and dissemination
Interactive thematic maps
Engine to download census spatial units
Explore spatial units
Explore Census small areas
Interactive thematic maps
Download census boundaries
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11. Organisational setup
The integration of the spatial component in all stages of the statistical production process will enhance efficiency and accuracy within several domains of the Statistics Portugal:
Sampling
Data collection
Availability of new territorial statistical data
Dissemination of (geo)statistical information
Currently several main statistical activities already benefit from support by the SDI
Please describe your powers to enforce georeferencing activities in official statistics.

12. Organisational setup
How Statistics Portugal cooperates with other public authorities in charge of geospatial information:
Statistics Portugal cooperates with Municipal authorities, especially for the:
Definition of the Census statistical units
Update of our point based Buildings spatial Dataset and households register
Together with other public authorities we are a member of the working groups INSPIRE PT for the implementation of the Datasets of the themes which are our co-responsibility
Please describe how your NSI cooperates with other public authorities in charge of geospatial information.
Usually the cooperation between the organizations are supported by Protocols

13. Data sources Used for georeferenced statistics: We would like to have:
Orthophotograph and Official Administrative Boundaries from the National Geographical Institute
Municipal Road network - private cover and data from the Municipalities
Publicly available Mapservices (imagery, streets)
Census data
Municipality Construction statistics
We would like to have:
Dataset of the non residential buildings
Please list your data sources used for georeferenced statistics, both statistical and geospatial.
Are there data sources you would like to have but cannot/ do not exist at the moment?

14. Technical situation Success stories in shared databases:
The Tax Revenue Service uses the geograhy of our statistical units as the starting base for the definition of real estate tax coefficients
We provide several mapservices with our principal datasets for different public authorities
We collaborate with the national mapping agency for the definition of the administrative boundaries
Please describe success stories in shared databases with other geospatial organisations, georeferenced data warehouses, linkage of geospatial information and statistics, etc. all supporting the integration of statistics and geospatial information.

15. Production process and products
Georeferenced statistical products / Official European statistics?
Several indicator georeferenced on parish and municipal level - available through our portal
Census data for small statistics areas
Please describe your users (internal and external) and what they are asking for:
Public institutions, General public, Local authorities, Educational and Research Institutes, Businesses
Thematic maps
Please describe your georeferenced statistical products.
Which statistical products should become official European statistics?
Please describe your users (internal and external) and what they are asking for.

16. European harmonisation
Where European harmonisation is necessary to be able to create European georeferenced statistics:
Harmonization of the production processes
Harmonization of datasets and metadata
Obstacles for a better integration and where you think European harmonisation could help to remove them:
Nonexistence of national geographical databases common to all public entities

17. European harmonisation
Vision on the cooperation between mapping agencies and NSI at the European level:
Both entities are linked, however their perception of the use of geographical data is not always the same
The main concern of the NSI is the usability within production statistical process.
Integration of core NSI geostatistical datasets and core NMA geographical datasets

18. Priorities What ESS should tackle first to have the biggest effect:
Harmonization of the production processes, datasets and metadata
Practical Implementation of INSPIRE Frame work for the statistical themes
Your current production process is ideal? If not, what would need to be changed if you have three wishes free?
Our current production process is not ideal since it is influenced by a number of limitations, our 3 wishes are:
Availability of official national geographic datasets - addresses, buildings and dwellings, network roads
Ability to produce statistical information for small areas from administrative registers
Adaptation of the existing technological infrastructure to meet the requirements of INSPIRE
Please describe what according to you the ESS should tackle first to have the biggest effect: