National Population Database Northern Ireland
NPD NI
The National Population Database (NPD) for Northern Ireland is a point-based Geographical Information System (GIS) dataset that combines locational information from Ordnance Survey Northern Ireland (OSNI) with population information about those locations, mainly sourced from Northern Irish government statistics. The points represent individual buildings allowing the NPD NI to provide detailed local analysis for anywhere in Northern Ireland. The Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL) working with Staffordshire University originally created the NPD for Great Britain in 2004 to help its parent organisation, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), assess the risks to society of major hazard sites e.g. oil refineries, chemical works and gas holders. Of particular interest to HSE were ‘sensitive’ populations e.g. schools and hospitals where the people at those locations may be more vulnerable to harm and potentially harder to evacuate in an emergency. The data for the NPD NI includes residential, schools and colleges, hospitals and workplace layers. The NPD NI was created using various datasets from OSNI and government organisations and contains other intellectual property so is only available under a license and for a fee. Please contact the HSL GIS team if you would like to discuss gaining access to the sample or full dataset.
dataset
name: INSPIRE View Service
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http://misoportal.com/portal/api/request-licenced-data/506
protocol:
name: INSPIRE Download Service
description: This data is restricted under the Ordnance Survey (OS) Public Sector Mapping Agreement (PSMA) license. Click here to request access.
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HSLNPDNI
eng
EPSG
TM75 / Irish Grid (EPSG:29903)
society
Population distribution — demography
publication
2013-12-11
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2013-03-29
Present
creation
2013-03-29
asNeeded
The NPD NI was created by joining population statistics from various sources, to geographical information from Ordnance Survey Northern Ireland and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA), using address matching techniques developed in-house. Automated routines can match up to two-thirds of the records, with most of the remaining records being geocoded by manually interrogating the data against a map background. The remaining few records are given a general geographic location. Before each update to a layer is formally published a sample is checked for errors. The source datasets for each layer are as follows: Residential – OSNI Pointer, Northern Ireland Output Areas (OAs), 2001 Census tables KS02 Age Structure; KS19 Rooms, Amenities, Central Heating and Lowest Floor Level; KS09 Economic Activity. Hospitals – OSNI Pointer, Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, Northern Ireland (for NHS hospitals). For private hospitals, information was obtained from each organisation’s website. Schools and colleges – OSNI Pointer, Department of Education Northern Ireland, 2011/12 Northern Ireland School Census, Department for Employment and Learning Northern Ireland (DELNI), Partnership of Northern Ireland Boarding Schools. Workplaces – OS Codepoint, Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR) from the Office of National Statistics (ONS).
publication
2005-01-01
true
http://www.hse.gov.uk/research/rrpdf/rr297.pdf
ESRI Geodatabase
9.3 or later
HSL licensing
http://www.hsl.gov.uk/internal/licensing-information/data-derived-from-hsl-services
The sample data is for evaluation purposes only.
Health & Safety Laboratory
pointOfContact
MISO
pointOfContact
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