Population distribution
Population distribution describes the geographical distribution of people, including population characteristics and activity levels, aggregated by grid, region, administrative unit or another analytical unit.
Copyright notices
The different, specific licensing conditions for GEOSTAT, clusters and DEGURBA can be found below.
EU copyright rules apply, while the licence would be under CC-BY 4.0.
Users may freely copy, publish and distribute the GEOSTAT 2011 grid dataset within their own organisation.
Users may not:
- disseminate the dataset to clients outside their own organisation
- sell the dataset – in whole or in part – to parties outside their organisation
- use it for any other commercial purpose.
For general information on content, lineage, access and conditions of use, see the following files which are included in the download zip package:
- INSPIRE metadata file
- conditions of use
- read-me
Usage and access conditions
Restrictions
The data produced by the national statistical offices of Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Czechia, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Spain, Finland, France, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Lithuania, Latvia, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia and the United Kingdom remain the property of the respective national statistical office.
Data records produced by these organisations are flagged with their ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code in the attribute DATA_SRC. These data must not be used for commercial purposes (even within the user's organisation) without prior approval by the owner.
Denmark (DK)
The use of the data is restricted to the user's own organisation. Data must not be redistributed without prior approval by Statistics Denmark. All rights to the data are the property of Statistics Denmark.
Users who wish to use the dataset for commercial purposes or to disseminate the dataset without charge should contact Statistics Denmark to make an agreement. Contact Erik Sommer, Chief Adviser, Customer Centre.
Sweden (SE)
All rights to the product are the property of Statistics Sweden under the provisions of the Copyright Act (1960:729). The Copyright Act provides for penalties and damages related to copyright violation. Users who wish to use the dataset for commercial purposes or to disseminate the dataset without charge should contact Statistics Sweden to make an agreement.
Finland (FI)
The terms of use of the data can be found at Statistics Finland.
Switzerland (CH)
The terms of use are explained, in German, in the document entitled ‘CH_Nutzungsbedingungen-Copyright_BFS_GEOSTAT.pdf’ and, in French, in the document ‘CH_Conditions_d'exploitation-Copyright_OFS_GEOSTAT.pdf‘. Both files are included in the download zip package.
Users may freely copy, publish and distribute the GEOSTAT 2006 grid dataset within their own organisation (company, governmental authority, municipality).
Users may not:
- disseminate the dataset to clients outside their own organisation;
- sell the dataset – in whole or in part – to parties outside their organisation;
- use it for any other commercial purpose.
For general information on content, lineage, access and conditions of use, see the metadata file (MD_GEOSTAT_Grid_POP_2006_1K.xml) included in the download zip package.
Usage and access conditions
Restrictions
The following additional restrictions on using national data may apply, depending on the data source (see the DATA_SRC field in the file GEOSTAT_Grid_POP_2006_1K.csv). Data produced by the national statistical offices of Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden, Norway and the United Kingdom remain the property of the respective national statistical office.
Data records produced by the above organisations are flagged accordingly with their ISO country code in the attribute DATA_SRC.
Spain
The dataset has been produced by the University of Valencia and the Polytechnic University of Valencia (DATA_SRC = UV). The statistical data remain the property of the Spanish national statistical office.
Sweden
All rights to their data remain the property of Statistics Sweden under the Copyright Act (1960:729), which provides for penalties and damages related to copyright violation. Users wishing to use the dataset for commercial purposes or disseminate it free of charge must first contact Statistics Sweden.
Denmark
All rights to their data remain the property of Statistics Denmark. Users wishing to use the dataset for commercial purposes or disseminate it free of charge must first contact Statistics Denmark (Erik Sommer, Chief Adviser, Customer Centre). Agreements with Statistics Denmark are governed by Danish law.
Any dispute that cannot be resolved by negotiation will be settled by the Maritime and Commercial Court in Copenhagen as the court of first instance.
Copyright notice
This dataset is publicly available and can be used for non-commercial purposes. The source and intellectual property of original data and derived data must always be acknowledged. To this end, an acknowledgement (as specified below) must be included in any printed or electronic publication that uses the data.
Acknowledgement notice: ‘Source: European Commission (Eurostat, Joint Research Centre and DG Regional Policy - REGIO-GIS)’.
Copyright notice
When data downloaded from this page is used in any printed or electronic publication, in addition to any other provisions applicable to the whole Eurostat web site, the data source must be acknowledged in the legend of any map and on the introductory page of the publication by using the following copyright notice:
- EN: © EuroGeographics for administrative boundaries
- FR: © EuroGeographics pour les limites administratives
- DE: © EuroGeographics bezüglich der Verwaltungsgrenzen
For publications in languages other than English, French or German, the translation of the copyright notice in the language of the publication must be used.
If you intend to use the data commercially, please contact EuroGeographics for information about their licence agreements.