City Statistics Illustrated Gorja BARTSCH Eurostat E4 Regional statistics and geographical information gorja.bartsch@ec.europa.eu

Objectives Increase the visibility and use of European statistics on cities Present the latest Urban Audit data in a visual, more user-friendly way Enable easy comparisons of cities Thus implementing the Eurostat strategy to complement exisiting publications with interactive, web-based tools

Main features Data for 941 core cities (EU28, TR, NO, CH) 20 indicators based on relevance/availability Data refer to 2012 or the latest available year (back to 2008) Search function for city names

Indicators pre-selected Population on 1 January (T/M/F) Population change over 1 year (%) Women per 100 men Young-age dependency ratio (%) Old-age dependency ratio (%) Age dependency ratio (%) Nationals as proportion of population (%) Foreigners as proportion of population (%) EU foreigners as proportion of population (%) Non-EU foreigners as proportion of population (%)

Indicators pre-selected (2) Crude birth rate (per 1000 inhabitants) Crude death rate (per 1000 inhabitants) Infant mortality rate (per 1000 live births) Average size of households Proportion of households that are 1-person households (%) Students in higher education (ISCED level 5-6), total Unemployment rate (M/T/F) (%) Activity rate (M/T/F) (%) Number of registered cars (per 1000 population) People killed in road accidents (per 10000 population)

Interactive visualisations

Fixed size of circles based on population <= 100 000 100 000–250 000 250 000–500 000 500 000–1 000 000 1 000 000–3 000 000 > 3 000 000 Colour legend to show the values (6 classes)

Mouse-over to display the exact value

Selection of cities per country

Bar chart

Search function

Compare selected cities with Ctrl key

Advanced functions to compare different indicators

Scatter plot

Zoom in and display city names

Distribution plot

Data table

Search function

Pivot function

Next steps Looking forward to YOUR feedback! Final testing and bug-fixing Go live by end of June Presentation at the European Week of Regions and Cities in Brussels (October) Data updates every 6 months Integration of additional indicators and/or time series based on availability

Points for Discussion Your experiences with similar tools Feedback on the features and visualisations Use of static data: right approach to cope with gaps regarding coverage/timeliness?