Estonian building stock
LongEstWell data
Mobile data
State Individual e-Data
Population forecasts
IMO User Portal
Contextual data
Data infrastructure for understanding societal changes
Estonian building stock
Data from sensors and sensor networks enable monitoring of the environment, traffic flows and “smart cities”
LongEstWell data
Survey data collected during a long-term study of the well-being, behavior, and coping of the adult population.
Mobile data
Data obtained through passive and active mobile positioning, data collected using smartphones, and additional survey data
State Individual e-Data
1989, 2000, and 2011 data from population and housing censuses, national registries, and national surveys.
Population forecasts
Estimates of the future development of the population based on various data sources and models, which help to understand demographic changes and support long-term planning and decision-making.
IMO User Portal
The innovative and comprehensive data infrastructure supporting mobility research brings together a variety of data to better understand people's spatial mobility.
Contextual data
Other datasets needed to generate additional features for cellular or government data based or field specific research.
Data infrastructure for understanding societal changes
Partners
What is IMO?
There are many good social science databases in Estonia, but so far, they have not been longitudinally, geographically and on cross-domain bases harmonized and integrated. The IMO is the subject of the Estonian Research Infrastructures Roadmap, which aims to develop an innovative data infrastructure supporting mobile research, which consists of five main components: IMO single user Portal, country-specific e-data, mobile data, context data and sensor data. They are made available through secure workplaces, user interfaces, and query environments.
The IMO wants to make the basic social science data more user-friendly, to bring it closer to decision-makers and to improve the quality of research.
Research
The study of spatial development scenarios for Estonia’s National Spatial Plan (NSP) “Estonia 2050”
The nationwide study on spatial development scenarios provides a scientific basis for guiding Estonia’s spatial development up to 2050. The study examines four possible development scenarios and shows that the current concentration of population and jobs in Tallinn exacerbates demographic and economic challenges in other parts of Estonia. Balanced development requires at least ten economically strong “locomotive” towns across the country, which would ensure better accessibility to jobs and services. Compact settlement development, curbing suburban sprawl, creating a high-quality living environment, and supporting the return of young people are considered crucial. More compact settlements help reduce environmental impact, travel costs, and public sector expenditures, while supporting sustainable and regionally balanced development in Estonia.
