The general objective of the Geospatial statistics: GEOSTAT 4 project was to foster the integration of statistics and geospatial information in a European context. The project continued the work done in the earlier GEOSTAT projects. In practise, the project completed the GSGF Europe and support its implementation in the organisations in the field. The project developed ESS methodological guidance and suggested needed additions to the ESS quality framework. Furthermore, the project created other guidance e.g. best practise cases and training material targeted to enable the users to fully utilize the GSGF Europe framework. The project also maintained and developed the EFGS website.

Work of the GEOSTAT 4 project was divided into seven work packages:

WP-1 A Completed GSGF Europe
WP-2 Supporting the Implementation of the GSGF Europe
WP-3 Quality of geospatial information management for statistics
WP-4 EFGS website
WP-5 EFGS Conferences
WP-6 Exploitation, distribution and dissemination
WP-7 Project management and coordination

The project was carried out by nine National Statistical Institutes. Statistics Finland is the project leader. The project subcontracted four parties, two of which were NMCAs. The project also worked closely with other related communities (UN-GGIM: Europe, UNECE, UN-EG ISGI).

The outputs of the Geostat 4 activities are:

The GSGF Europe document ESS Methodological documentation (draft)
Concrete use cases
Suggestions of geospatial elements to the ESS quality assurance framework
Statistical geospatial quality indicators and measures
Training and communication materials
EFGS Website maintenance and development
EFGS Conferences 2020 and 2021

The results of the project would support the integration of geospatial and statistical information in the Member States.

The concrete use cases support coherent implementation. The geospatial additions to the ESS quality assurance framework help to ensure good quality of geospatial statistics. The geospatial statistical community iss supported through guidance and learning material as well as by gathering the statistical geospatial network together at 2020 and 2021 EFGS conferences.

Kick-off meeting Helsinki 2020

Project contact point:

Rina Tammisto, Statistics Finland rina.tammisto@stat.fi

Project deliverables:

Final results

Deliverables will be gathered and published in web-enebling format as the GSGF Europe: GEOSTAT Information Service webpage. Deliverables available to download in pdf are gathered in the Library.