Opening Welcome to Statistics Norway ESTP course on

Opening Welcome to Statistics Norway ESTP course on Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Use of GIS for making statistics in a production environment Statistics Norway, Oslo, 26 th to 30 th of March 2012 Attribution (by) Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform the work and make derivative works based on it only if they give the author or licensor the credits in the manner specified by these. Olav Ljones Deputy Director General http: //creativecommons. org/licenses/by/3. 0/ 1

Statistics Norway in short: • • Independence anchored in The Statistics Act (1989) • • Statistics based on administrative registers and surveys Almost 1000 employees at two locations (600 -400) – Responsible for 85 percent of all official statistics in Norway About 300 statistics produced and – 1000 (news) releases on www. ssb. no annually • A Research Department within the institution – Serving ministries with macroeconomic and micro simulation models – Independent research – Research for better statistics • International cooperation – Eurostat, UN, OECD, IEA, bilateral, technical assistance 2

The census in 2011 (and other registers) • • • The census – – – 19 november 2011 – the status in administrative registers Denmark, Finland - Norway, Sweden 18 European countries uses more or less adm. registers The cost of the Norwegian cenus is 0. 5 dollar per capita The cost of the US census is 87 dollar per capita EU comparison approach Some registers in Norway – – – – – The tax declaration register The labor force register The land register The pension register The support register The education register The product register The trade register Etc A huge potential for GIS information based om micro data – Confidentiality issues – From macro to grid? 3

European Statistical Training Programme • • • The purpose of the European Statistical Training Programme (ESTP) is to provide European statisticians the opportunity to participate in international training courses, workshops and seminars at postgraduate level. Courses under the ESTP have a truly international dimension to meet the challenges of comparable statistics at European and international level. Courses focus on harmonised European concepts and legislation, as well as the implementation practices at national level. The programme is coordinated by Eurostat. Courses are delivered either at Eurostat premises in Luxembourg or in national training sites of EU and European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries. 4

ESTP course 2012: GIS and statistics • • • Participating institutions Oslo, Norway, 26 -30 th of March Bulgarian National Statistcal Institute 24 participants from 17 countries Federal Statistical Office of Germany 7 lecturers National Statistical Institute Spain Eurostat, European Commission Statistics Finland Croatian Bureau of Statistics Central Statistics Office Ireland Italian National Institute of Statistics STATEC Luxembourg Statistics Norway Central Statistical Office Poland National Institute of Statistics Romania Trafikanalys Sweden Bank of Slovenia Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia National Institute of Public Health Slovenia Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic Turkish Statistical Institute Statistics Denmark 5 Hungarian Central Statistical Office

Busines model as framework for course http: //www. ssb. no/english/subjects/00/90/doc_200817_en. pdf 6

Partners Geostat 1 A (Co-ordinator) Statistics Norway (subcontractor) MD mapping 1 (Co-partner) Statistics Austria 2 (Co-partner) Statistics Estonia 3 (Co-partner) Statistics Finland 4 (Co-partner) Statistics France 5 (Co-partner) Statistics Netherlands 6 (Co-partner) Statistics Poland 7 (Co-partner) Statistics Portugal 8 (Co-partner) Statistics Slovenia 7

ESTP course 2012: GIS and statistics • • • Participating institutions Oslo, Norway, 26 -30 th of March Bulgarian National Statistcal Institute 24 participants from 17 countries Federal Statistical Office of Germany 7 lecturers National Statistical Institute Spain Eurostat, European Commission Statistics Finland Croatian Bureau of Statistics Central Statistics Office Ireland Italian National Institute of Statistics STATEC Luxembourg Statistics Norway Central Statistical Office Poland National Institute of Statistics Romania Trafikanalys Sweden Bank of Slovenia Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia National Institute of Public Health Slovenia Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic Turkish Statistical Institute Statistics Denmark 8 Hungarian Central Statistical Office

Vision for a Global forum EFGS members 2012 – cover a population of 899 039 000* AUSTRIA Ingrid. Kaminger@statistik. gv. at BRAZIL maria. bueno@ibge. gov. br BULGARIA EAvramova@nsi. bg vangelova@nsi. bg CROATIA crkvencicb@dzs. hr CZECH REPUBLIC stepan. moravec@scitani. cz DENMARK mbr@dst. dk ESTONIA kreet. masik@stat. ee EUROSTAT Ekkehard. PETRI@ec. europa. eu FINLAND marja. tammilehto-luode@stat. fi FRANCE jean-luc. lipatz@insee. fr GEORGIA shavishvili@geostat. ge zkevanishvili@geostat. ge *UN 2010 GERMANY susanne. schnorr-baecker@destatis. de GREECE (ELLADA) vagkotz@statistics. gr HUNGARY http: //www. ksh. hu ICELAND Anna. Bjornsdottir@Hagstofa. is IRELAND Dermot. Corcoran@cso. ie ITALY ticca@istat. it KOSOVO idriz. shala@ks-gov. net LATVIA pavels. onufrijevs@csb. gov. lv LITHUANIA jana. vanagiene@stat. gov. lt THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA goran. kirandziski@stat. gov. mk MEXICO Elsa. Resano@Inegi. Org. Mx THE NETHERLANDS nlwe@cbs. nl NORWAY vvh@ssb. no POLAND r. jablonski@stat. gov. pl PORTUGAL ana. msantos@ine. pt ROMANIA daniel. vardol@insse. ro SLOVAKIA zuzana. podmanicka@statistics. sk SLOVENIA Igor. Kuzma@gov. si SPAIN ignacio. duque. rodriguez@ine. es SWEDEN marie. haldorson@scb. se SWITZERLAND Werner. Meyer@bfs. admin. ch TURKEY seymaozcan@tuik. gov. tr UNITED KINGDOM andy. tait@ons. gsi. gov. uk ÅLAND iris. akerberg@asub. ax In addition good contact with Australia, New Zeeland more countries in Latin America 9