MOBILE STATISTICS

MOBILE STATISTICS
first contact
Igor Kuzma, Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
 Introduction
 Mobile telephony in Slovenia
 Legislation
 Technology: available vs. possible
 Tasks in 2014+
Please consider the possibility of inaccurate terminology 
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Introduction
 „Definition“
- Source: mobile operators
- Source: mobile devices
- Big data: variety, volume, velocity
 Data already available!
 Mobile positioning & locating
 Mobile terminal
 Transaction
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Introduction
Working places
Population
Income
…
„Census data“
Households
Register of spatial units
Business entities
Statistical surveys
Real estates
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Distribution of population by permanent or temporary residence, grid 1 km x 1 km
Introduction
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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
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Introduction
Working places
Population
Income
…
Households
Register prostorskih enot
„Census data“
Business entities
Statistical surveys
Real estates
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Mobile telephony
 Mobile operators
- 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!
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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
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Mobile telephony
Active users of mobile telephony by mobile operators
%
time period
Source: Post and Electronic Communications Agency of the Republic of Slovenia
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Mobile telephony
„Contract users“ of mobile telephony by mobile operators
%
time period
Source: Post and Electronic Communications Agency of the Republic of Slovenia
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Mobile telephony
„Pre-paid users“ of mobile telephony by mobile operators
%
time period
Source: Post and Electronic Communications Agency of the Republic of Slovenia
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Mobile telephony
Traffic - convesrations
%
time period
Source: Post and Electronic Communications Agency of the Republic of Slovenia
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Mobile telephony
Traffic - SMSs
%
time period
Source: Post and Electronic Communications Agency of the Republic of Slovenia
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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
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Technology
Source: www.mobilna-telefonija.com
~ 2,600 mobile stations
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Technology
Source: www.mobilna-telefonija.com
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Technology
Source: www.mobilna-telefonija.com
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Technology
 Where am I?
- a location service offered by Telekom
- tested from inside the building in Ljubljana & Dolenjske Toplice
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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
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Legislation
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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
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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?)
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 References
- 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!
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