MOBILE STATISTICS first contact Igor Kuzma Statistical Office

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

Ø Introduction Ø Mobile telephony in Slovenia Ø Legislation Ø Technology: available vs. possible Ø Tasks in 2014+ Please consider the possibility of inaccurate terminology EFGS Sofia 2013 2

Introduction Ø „Definition“ - Source: mobile operators - Source: mobile devices - Big data: variety, volume, velocity Ø Data already available! Ø Mobile positioning & locating Ø Mobile terminal Ø Transaction EFGS Sofia 2013 3

Introduction Working places Population Income … „Census data“ Households Register of spatial units Business entities Statistical surveys Real estates EFGS Sofia 2013 Buildings 4

Distribution of population by permanent or temporary residence, grid 1 km x 1 km Introduction EFGS Sofia 2013 5

Distribution of elementary school students, upper secondary school students, university students, employees (2 nd and 3 rd sector) and retired persons , grid 1 km x 1 km Introduction EFGS Sofia 2013 6

Introduction Working places Population Income … Households Register prostorskih enot „Census data“ Business entities Statistical surveys Real estates EFGS Sofia 2013 Buildings 7

Mobile telephony Ø Mobile operators - 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! EFGS Sofia 2013 8

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 EFGS Sofia 2013 9

Mobile telephony Active users of mobile telephony by mobile operators % time period Source: Post and Electronic Communications Agency of the Republic of Slovenia EFGS Sofia 2013 10

Mobile telephony „Contract users“ of mobile telephony by mobile operators % time period Source: Post and Electronic Communications Agency of the Republic of Slovenia EFGS Sofia 2013 11

Mobile telephony „Pre-paid users“ of mobile telephony by mobile operators % time period Source: Post and Electronic Communications Agency of the Republic of Slovenia EFGS Sofia 2013 12

Mobile telephony Traffic - convesrations % time period Source: Post and Electronic Communications Agency of the Republic of Slovenia EFGS Sofia 2013 13

Mobile telephony Traffic - SMSs % time period Source: Post and Electronic Communications Agency of the Republic of Slovenia EFGS Sofia 2013 14

Technology Ø 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 EFGS Sofia 2013 15

Technology Source: www. mobilna-telefonija. com ~ 2, 600 mobile stations EFGS Sofia 2013 16

Technology Source: www. mobilna-telefonija. com EFGS Sofia 2013 17

Technology Source: www. mobilna-telefonija. com EFGS Sofia 2013 18

Technology Ø Where am I? - a location service offered by Telekom - tested from inside the building in Ljubljana & Dolenjske Toplice EFGS Sofia 2013 19

Technology Ø Variables - Tax no. - Time interval (15 min) - Unique ID of the mobile device - Cell ID EFGS Sofia 2013 20

Legislation Ø 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 EFGS Sofia 2013 21

Legislation EFGS Sofia 2013 22

Work in 2014 Ø 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 EFGS Sofia 2013 23

Work in 2014 Ø 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? ) EFGS Sofia 2013 24

Ø References - 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! EFGS Sofia 2013 25