National Population Database Northern Ireland

Published by:
Health and Safety Executive
Last updated:
25 April 2014
Topic:
Society
Licence:
Creative Commons Attribution

Summary

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.

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