Cultural monuments, nature and local environment
01 - Natural resources and the environment
Follows the dissemination of KOSTRA-indicators.
Frequency: Annually
Preliminary figures: 15. March Final figures: 15. June
Articles (analysis) with tables and graphs based on the figures will be announced.
Timeliness: Figures on the previous year, on the above given dates.
Municipalities and County Authorities
220 - Division for natural resources and environmental statistics
Data collection: Under the provisions of Local Government Act Section 49
Statistics compilation: Under the provisions of Statistics Act, Section 2.2
Not relevant.
Not relevant.
KOSTRA (municipal-state-reporting) - in general:
The objective is to coordinate and increase the efficiency of all municipal reporting to the national authorities, and provide the local and national authorities with vital directing information.
KOSTRA was established in 1995, as a pilot poject. The number of municipalities and county authorities included in the reporting and dissemination system have increased gradually up to 2001, when all were included. KOSTRA provides a web-portal for the reporting. In addition to the reported data from municiplaities and county authorities, the KOSTRA-indicators are based on register-data such as municipal accounts, manpower information and population data.
See also: http://www.ssb.no/english/subjects/00/00/20/kostra_en/
Cultural monuments and local environment:
The objective is to obtain information on the municipal efforts to protect cultural monuments and safeguarding local environment.
The County Authorities (the County Curator) is responsibel for the protection of cultural monuments, and functions as a supervisory body for the municiplaities.
KOSTRA provides directing information on the municipalities and the county authorities. The most frequent users would be the municipalities themselves, other regional and national authorities, media and the general public.
Mandatory reporting for all municipalities and county authorities.
Data reported (web forms) from municipalities and county authorities on the following topics:
Municipal planning, building applications, mapping av surveying, recreational areas, management of nature resources and cultural monuments.
In addition to the above:
municipal accounts, number of inhabitants, length of coastline, cadastral information, protected areas and objects
Not relevant.
Deadline: 15. February.
The data reported through the web-portal are subjects for control in three stages: First stage is automatic controls embedded in the web-forms. Second stage is at the SSB data sink. Third stage is the audit performed by the variuos divisions responsibel for statistics and indicators.
The basic data (level 3 in KOSTRA) is mainly web form data (annual sums, averages) reported as abolute data. The key figures (level 2 in KOSTRA) are mainly ratios based on level 3 and other datasources.
Most of the key figures have weighted averages. For the absolute data used as key figures, the averages are arithmetic.
Not relevant.
To be completed.
To be completed.
Error of measurement is assumed to occur maily in the web form data. The automatic and manual controls reveal erros at different stages in the data flow. The reporting units have the oppotunity to correct their data before submitting (use embedded controls). There are controls at the data sink and at the division responsible for the statistics.
To be completed.
Not relevant.
Not relevant.
To be completed.
See also:
Land use planning in municipalities and counties - http://www.ssb.no/english/subjects/01/01/20/fysplan_en/
Culture Statistics - http://www.ssb.no/english/subjects/07/nos_cultural/nos_d444_en/
Article: http://www.ssb.no/english/subjects/01/miljo_kostra_en/
To be completed.
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