Conclusions?

Lars H. Backer

Framework

• Programs and Projects– INSPIRE Directive

• The Nordic Grid Challenge– The Nordic Consortium and the eContent projects (Lars Backer)– Geo_S process (Geo_STP & Geo_STN) (Lars Backer)

Grid Based Statistics

• Bottom Up methods (Aggregations)– The Gridmap 5 (8 Countries)– Map (Rina Tammisto)

• Top Down methods (Disaggregations)– The Eurostat Gridmap (Albrecht Wirtman)– Austria and surrounding regions (Klaus Steinocher)– Map (Rina Tammisto)

• Lucas – The European Lucas (Marco Fritz)– The Norwegian Lucas (Geir Harald Strand)

Data

• Data Catchment– Future prospects (Marianne Dysterud)

• Databases– Spatial Databases (Maija Leppänen)

• Metadata– GI Metadata (Sinikka Laurila)

Delineations

• Urban areas, Localities– Experiments in The Netherlands (Nick van Leeuwen)– Localities in Sweden, Using sattelite images etc. (Marianne

Eriksson)– Localities in Finland (Ulla-Marit Saarinen)– Poster from Switzerland

Applications

• Noise– Information for Noise control (Erik Engelien)

• Election results– Web map application (Liisa Kannerva)

• Socio-economic clusters– Dynamic Socio-economic Mapping (Vilni Holst Bloch)

Dissemination

• Portals– GeoPortal for Statistics Sweden– Px-Map (Marianne Dysterud)

• Papers & Presentations– Collection of papers from the conference (Vilni Holst Bloch)

• Maps– Eurosta Gridmap (Rina Tammisto)– Grid Club Map (Rina Tammisto)

Critical Issues

• Disclosure Control– Threshhold Levels (Ingrid Kaminger)– Related to Small statistical Areas (Vilni Holst Bloch)

• Stigmatisation– Discussion

Conference

• Present– Fantastic Meeting both professionally and socially (Vilni Holst Bloch

& Arne-Knut Ottestad)

• The Future– Business as Usual!– Challenge Finland to arrange the next meeting of the Nordic

Forum for GeoStatistics. – We suggest that we invite the Grid Club

Thank you!

lars.backer@scb.se