Statistical units - Basic District Units

The dataset shows the Basic District Units in Norway. Basic District Units are stable statistical units that were created in consultation between the municipality and Statistics Norway (SSB).

Date (Creation): 0001-01-01

Date (Publication): 0001-01-01

Date (Revision): 2025-02-21

Code: grunnkretser

Status: Completed

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Norwegian Mapping Authority		kundesenter@kartverket.no	Publisher
Norwegian Mapping Authority	Carina Tolpinrud Jøntvedt	kundesenter@kartverket.no	Owner

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Befolkningsfordeling

Nasjonal inndeling i geografiske initiativ og SDI-er

Inspire
Geodata Act
Modellbaserte vegprosjekter
Felles datakatalog
Norge digitalt

Nasjonal tematisk inndeling (DOK-kategori)

Befolkning

Administrative enheter i Norge

Norge

Spatial scope

National

Specific usage: Statistical calculations. Analysis and display in a GIS system. Production of maps and derived products

User contact info

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
			Owner

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Åpne data

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Creative Commons BY 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)

Classification: Unclassified

Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 10000

Language: Norwegian

Topic category

Boundaries

Begin date: 2023-01-01

End date: 2023-12-31

Supplemental Information: Statistics Norway (SSB) is responsible for district division in Norway. SSB assigns district numbers to each district and is the addressee for applications to change/create new districts. The Norwegian Mapping Authority is responsible for the digital database of districts and for keeping the dataset up to date in consultation with SSB.

Unique resource identifier: EPSG:25832

Unique resource identifier: EPSG:25833

Unique resource identifier: EPSG:25835

Unique resource identifier: EPSG:3035

Unique resource identifier: EPSG:4258

Distribution format

Name	Version
FGDB
FGDB	10.0
GeoJSON
GML
GML	3.2.1
PostGIS
PostGIS	12
PostGIS	9.4
SOSI	4.5
FGDB
GML
GeoJSON
SOSI
PostGIS

Units of distribution: fylkesvis, kommunevis, landsfiler

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
GEONORGE:DOWNLOAD	https://nedlasting.test.geonorge.no/api/capabilities/

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Domain consistency

Conformance result

Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Title: inspire

Date

Explanation: The data is not evaluated according to the product specification

Conformance result

Title: SOSI produktspesifikasjon: Statistiske enheter - Norges grunnkretser

Date (Publication)

Title: sosi

Date

Explanation: The data is not evaluated according to the product specification

Statement: Kommune- og fylkesgrensene er basert på de offisielle administrative grensene. Grunnkretsgrensene er de samme som brukes til oppdatering av kretsinformasjon i matrikkelen. Grunnkretsgrenser i sjø er imidlertid kvalitetshevet i datasettet.