1. MOBILE STATISTICS - first contact
Igor Kuzma, Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia

2. Mobile telephony in Slovenia Legislation
Introduction
Mobile telephony in Slovenia
Legislation
Technology: available vs. possible
Tasks in 2014+
Please consider the possibility of inaccurate terminology 
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3. „Definition“ Data already available! Mobile positioning & locating
Introduction
„Definition“
- Source: mobile operators
- Source: mobile devices
- Big data: variety, volume, velocity
Data already available!
Mobile positioning & locating
Mobile terminal
Transaction
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4. Register of spatial units
Introduction
Working places
Population
Income …
Households
Register of spatial units
„Census data“
Business entities
Statistical surveys
Real estates
Buildings
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5. Distribution of population by permanent or temporary residence, grid 1 km x 1 km
Introduction
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6. Distribution of elementary school students, upper secondary school students,
university students, employees (2nd and 3rd sector)
and retired persons , grid 1 km x 1 km
Introduction
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7. Register prostorskih enot
Introduction
Working places
Population
Income …
Households
Register prostorskih enot
„Census data“
Business entities
Statistical surveys
Real estates
Buildings
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8. Mobile operators Mobile telephony
- 4 mobile network operators (1 national)
- 3 service providers
- 3 re-sellers
- first 4 are primary data providers
- all network operators and service providers could be/are important!
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9. Mobile telephony
Penetration of active users of mobile telephony in the population %
time period
~ 2,25. mil active users
population
Source: Post and Electronic Communications Agency of the Republic of Slovenia
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10. Mobile telephony Active users of mobile telephony by mobile operators%
time period
Source: Post and Electronic Communications Agency of the Republic of Slovenia
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11. Mobile telephony
„Contract users“ of mobile telephony by mobile operators %
time period
Source: Post and Electronic Communications Agency of the Republic of Slovenia
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12. Mobile telephony
„Pre-paid users“ of mobile telephony by mobile operators %
time period
Source: Post and Electronic Communications Agency of the Republic of Slovenia
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13. Mobile telephony Traffic - convesrations % time period EFGS Sofia 2013
Source: Post and Electronic Communications Agency of the Republic of Slovenia
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14. Mobile telephony Traffic - SMSs % time period EFGS Sofia 2013
Source: Post and Electronic Communications Agency of the Republic of Slovenia
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15. Various technologies and methods
Technology
Various technologies and methods
Method
Accuracy
Depends on the cell size
Source: Tomaž Korošec, post-graduate student, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of electrical engineering, 2006
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16. Technology ~ 2,600 mobile stations EFGS Sofia 2013
Source:
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17. Technology
Source:
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18. Technology
Source:
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19. Where am I? Technology - a location service offered by Telekom
- tested from inside the building in Ljubljana & Dolenjske Toplice
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20. Variables Technology - Tax no. - Time interval (15 min)
- Unique ID of the mobile device
- Cell ID
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21. Legislation Legislation - Act on Statistics
- Information commissioner (Commissioner for data protection)
- No additional data matching or aggregation by the mobile operators
- Data streaming
- Annual programme of statistical surveys, 1 January 2014
- 911, 112 calls
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22. Legislation
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23. Mobile statistics in production & dissemination
Work in 2014
Mobile statistics in production & dissemination
- Improving time – space accuracy 
- Number of population & mobility
- Population & attributes
- Time : space dimension regarding the commercial interest of the operators
- Improving and controlling the existing statistics (e.g. working places)
- Creating new statistics (mobile devices, cultural statistics etc.)
- Confidentiality
- Final data volume
- Census 2014
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24. Mobile statistics in production & dissemination
Work in 2014
Mobile statistics in production & dissemination
- Pilot project: some tasks co-financed by the Eurostat grant: Merging
statistics and geospatial information II
- STAGE (STAtistics & Geography)
- open data (mobile station cell geometries?)
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25. References Thank you! - Simobil d.d.
- Post and Electronic Communications Agency of the Republic of Slovenia
- Tomaž Korošec – not in English but very useful literature listed at the end!
- mobilni operaterji
Thank you!
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