Programme and presentations for the European Forum for Geography and Statistics 2014
EFGS Participants 2014
The EFGS Conference was organized and hosted by Statistics Poland on the 22nd-24th October 2014. The motto was: Together now for a better future.
Program
Day 1 Wednesday, 22nd October 2014
| Time [start] | Title | Speaker |
| 9:30 | Registration for the Conference & welcome coffee | |
| 10:30 | OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE | |
| 10:30 | Welcome speech from the President of CSO | Janusz Witkowski President of the Central Statistical Office of Poland (CSO) |
| 10:45 | President of EFGS about “EFGS project” | Vilni Verner Holst Bloch President of EFGS Statistics Norway |
| 10:55 | Speech from the representative of Eurostat | Ekkehard Petri European Commission Eurostat |
| 11:05 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30 | SESSION 1: KEYNOTE | |
| 11:30 | Introduction by Chair
Presentation part 1 / Presentation part 2
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Janusz Dygaszewicz Director of Department CSO Poland |
| 11:50 | The EFGS and the integration of Geography and Statistics
Abstract / Paper / Presentation |
Lars Backer Executive Director EFGS |
| 12:10 | Census, geography, statistics, big data, adaptive design, mobile
Abstract / Paper / Presentation |
Timothy Trainor Chief of Geography Division US Census Bureau |
| 12:30 | Core georeferenced datasets as aggregating factor in public administration
Abstract / Paper / Presentation |
Jacek Jarząbek Deputy Surveyor General of Poland |
| 12:50 | Together now for a better future? No, together is better for a future now | Dave Lovell Secretary General and Executive Director EuroGeographics |
| 13:10 | Organizational issues | Amelia Wardzińska-Sharif, GIS Expert in CSO Poland |
| 13:20 | Lunch for all participants | |
| 14:20 | SESSION 2: INTRODUCTION SECTION
Potential for cooperation between NSI and NMA in the field of geostatistics |
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| 14:20 | Introduction by Chair | Marja Tammilehto-Luode Chief Adviser Statistics Finland |
| 14:30 | A methodological approach from address to grid statistics: sharing geodata with a mixed, parametric and hierarchical tools
Abstract / Paper / Presentation |
Ignacio Duque National Statistical Institute, Spain |
| 14:50 | The role of the national address database in adding value to Irish statistics | Dermot Corcoran Central Statistics Office, Ireland |
| 15:10 | Spatial Statistics on the Web – enabling Spatial Analysis in a Web Browser
Abstract / Paper / Presentation |
Marja Tammilehto-Luode Statistics Finland, Finland and Timo Aarnio and Jari Reini National Land Survey of Finland |
| 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00 | The role of national atlas at the intersection between SDI, statistical data infrastructures and their portals | Alfredo Del Campo National Geographic Institute |
| 16:20 | Land Cover and Census integration geographic datasets to realize a statistics synthetic maps | Stefano Mugnoli and Rafaella Chioccinni ISTAT |
| 16:40 | Summing up by Chair | Marja Tammilehto-Luode Chief Adviser Statistics Finland |
| 16:55 | ||
Day 2 Thursday, 23rd October 2014
| Time [start] | Title | Speaker |
| 9:30 | SESSION 3: THE EFGS GENERAL ASSEMBLY | |
| 9:30 | Introduction by Chair | Vilni Verner Holst Bloch President of EFGS Statistics Norway |
| 9:40 | Discussion EFGS | All participants |
| 10:20 | Summing up and closing down of session by Chair | Vilni Verner Holst Bloch President of EFGS Statistics Norway |
| 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 | SESSION 4: MAINSTREAM SECTION
Best practices in the field of geostatistics |
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| 11:00 | Introduction by Chair | Marie Haldorson Director, Regions and Environment Department Statistics Sweden |
| 11:10 | The complexities of publishing gridded Census data in the United Kingdom
Abstract / Paper / Presentation |
Ian Coady Geography policy and Research Manager Office for National Statistics UK |
| 11:30 | Lessons Learned from the Production of Gridded Population of the World Version 4
Abstract / Paper / Presentation / Poster |
Kytt MacManus Ciesin, Earth Institute, Columbia University/School of International and Public Affairs Columbia University |
| 11:50 | Integration of statistical and geospatial information – An overview of European and global initiatives | Ekkehard Petri European Commission Eurostat |
| 12:10 | Lunch for all participants | |
| 13:10 | Enhancing indicators on urban public transport in combination with geostatistics
Abstract / Paper 1 / Paper2 / Presentation |
Hugo Poelman European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy, REGIO-GIS |
| 13:30 | Who owns Biodiversity? – Land accounts for Biodiversity Using Geospatial Information
Abstract / Paper / Presentation |
Jerker Moström, Regions and Environment Department Statistics Sweden |
| 13:50 | Dissemination of sensitive variables in a 200m x 200m national grid datasets | Vincent Loonis Spatial methods division, INSEE |
| 14:10 | Coffee break | |
| 14:40 | Request for free access to grid data – including user cases in Denmark
Abstract / Paper / Presentation |
Eric Sommer Adviser Customer Centre, Statistics Denmark |
| 15:00 | Comparing bottom-up and top-down population density grids: The Spanish Census 2011
Abstract / Paper / Presentation part 1 / Presentation part 2 |
Francisco J. Goerlich University of Valencia & Ivie, Spain |
| 15:20 | Travel Behaviour in Pristina City | Naim Kelmendi Ministry of Infrastructure Kosovo, Burim Limolli and Idriz Shala Kosovo Agency of Statistics, Kosovo |
| 15:40 | Summing up and closing down of session by Chair | Marie Haldorson Director, Regions and Environment Department Statistics Sweden |
| 15:50 | SOCIAL EVENT for all participants | |
| 21:00 | ||
Day 3 Friday, 24th October 2014
| Time [start] | Title | Speaker |
| 9:00 | SESSION 5: CHALLENGE SECTION
Searching for new ideas in the integration of geography and statistics |
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| 9:00 | Introduction by Chair | Igor Kuzma Senior Counsellor Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia |
| 9:10 | Framework for integration of geography and statistics – new possibilities with old data in Norway
Abstract / Paper / Presentation |
Vilni Verner Holst Bloch President of EFGS Statistics Norway |
| 9:30 | GHSL application in Europe: Towards new population grids | Matina Halkia European Commission, JRC, Global security and Crisis Management |
| 9:50 | Harmonizing population grid data into the INSPIRE data model | Pieter Bresters Statistics Netherlands |
| 10:10 | Commuting time for every employed: combining traffic sensors and many other data sources for population statistics | Pasi Piela Statistics Finland |
| 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 | Population disaggregation using Copernicus Land Monitoring Services and OpenStreetMap
Abstract / Paper / Presentation / Poster |
Konštantín Rosina Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geography |
| 11:20 | STAGE – web GIS application for visualisation and dissemination of geospatial statistical data
Abstract / Paper / Presentation |
Igor Kuzma Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, |
| 11:40 | A Spatial Integration of Statistical Data and Census Data for Global Studies | Shuming Bao China Data Center, University of Michigan, USA |
| 12:00 | Summing up and closing down of session by Chair | Igor Kuzma Senior Counsellor Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia |
| 12:10 | SESSION 6: PANEL DISCUSSION | |
| 12:10 | Introduction by Chair | Lars Backer EFGS Executive Director |
| 12:20 | Discussions | All participants |
| 12:50 | Summing up and closing down of session by Chair | Lars Backer EFGS Executive Director |
| 13:00 | SESSION 7: SUMMING UP AND CLOSING | |
| 13:00 | Announce of the next conference of EFGS | Representative from Austria |
| 13:10 | Summing-up and closing by Chair | Lars Backer EFGS Executive Director |
| 13:20 | Lunch for all participants | |
| 14:20 | ||