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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mobile operators Mobile telephony - 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Various technologies and methods Technology 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

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

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

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

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

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

Legislation 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

Legislation EFGS Sofia 2013

Mobile statistics in production & dissemination Work in 2014 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

Mobile statistics in production & dissemination Work in 2014 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

References Thank you! - 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