First, a Queen's 2 weight file was calculated for the grid of vernier. Figure 3a shows the idea of this weight file. Each cell with a distance closer or equal to two is taken into account (green) for the computation of the value of the cell of interest (red). The values of the white cells do not have an influence on the calculation of the red value. For instance, if we want to calculate the spatial rate smoothed value for the red cell, we would divide the sum of the first parameter (e.g. Number of Interventions) of all green colored cells through the sum of the second parameter (Total Population) of all green cells. Several "Spatial Rate Smoothed"-rates (SRS) were computed (Percentage of Non-Swiss inhabitants per population, Percentage of Non-European inhabitants per population, Number of Interventions per population). All results have been plotted, visually analysed, discussed and compared to the raw rate which has not been spatially smoothed.