Overview of Regional Indicators Item 6.1 of the agenda Gorja Bartsch Eurostat Unit E4 WG on Regional, Urban and Rural Development statistics – 2014 October 20-21

Regional indicators (by NUTS) 6.1 Overview 6.2 Regional accounts 6.3 Regional social, income and living conditions (SILC) indicators 6.4 Regional labour market 6.5 How's life in your region? (OECD) WG on Regional Statistics 20-21 October 2014

Regional indicators in support of EU policy Two recent examples: Regional Business Demography Measures business dynamics at regional level for "smart growth" agenda Regional Environment Questionnaire Data on waste and wastewater treatment for environmental and cohesion policy REQ 2014 to be lauched 10/2014 WG on Regional Statistics 20-21 October 2014

Regional business demography pilot data collection 2012 Grants covered 2008, 2009 and 2010 data BG, DK, ES, FR, HU, AT, RO, SL, SK, FI, NL as well as CZ, IT, LT, PL, EE, PT NUTS 2 and 3 by size class and NACE Rev. 2 Number of enterprises (incl. high growth), births, deaths, survivals, employment Feasibility of regional breakdowns from national data collection demonstrated by most NSIs Data published in April 2014 WG on Regional Statistics 20-21 October 2014

Use of data in 6th Cohesion report, p. 25 WG on Regional Statistics 20-21 October 2014

Use of data in 6th Cohesion report, p. 26 WG on Regional Statistics 20-21 October 2014

Regional business demography: the way forward RBD data will potentially become a critical policy indicator to analyse regional business dynamics Two-year project with OECD to improve methodology RBD 2015 (for 2011, 2012 and 2013 data) to be launched soon 300 000 Euro in grants financed by DG REGIO Aim: establishing the tool in NSI's production systems for future data collections under FRIBS WG on Regional Statistics 20-21 October 2014

Regional indicators (by NUTS) 6.2 Regional accounts 6.3 Regional social, income and living conditions (SILC) indicators 6.4 Regional labour market 6.5 How's life in your region? (OECD) WG on Regional Statistics 20-21 October 2014

Thank you for your attention Contact: ESTAT-REGIO@ec.europa.eu WG on Regional Statistics 20-21 October 2014