Quality of life in European cities By Lewis Dijkstra Deputy Head of Unit Policy Development and Economic Analysis Unit, DG Regional and Urban Policy European Commission 1

Strength of the city survey Unique source of information Media coverage is very high Underexploited resource Coordination with other surveys and actors is low Some methodological issues with regard to sampling and questions

Current set up Managed by the Urban Unit Contracted out through the Eurobarometer framework contract Every three years Covers around 79 cities in EU, NO, CH, IS, TR Questions decided by DG COMM/REGIO with sometimes last minute changes

New set up Managed by B1, Economic analysis unit Open Call for tender Every three years Covers at least the same cities Always at the greater city level if there is one Questions determined a year ahead of time by REGIO/ESTAT/NUACs

Timeline May 2017 Launch of online EU survey to get feedback on the questions from NUACs ESTAT Commission colleagues with an interest in city level indicators Other urban level actors? Eurocities… Finalisation of the questionnaire Oct 2017 Survey conducted Oct 2018