SIRE and the Urban tables Torbioern.Carlquist@cec.eu.int
Urban concept Morphological concept (built-up area) UN recommendation: not more than 200 meter between buildings or other urban features Use the national definition Link to LAU (former NUTS level 5)
Structure of urban area (a)
Structure of urban area (b)
Structure of urban area (c)
Urban concept - examples Locality (England) Agglomeration (France) Siedlungseinheit (Austria) Localita’ (Italy) Lugar (Portugal) Taajama / tätort (Finland)
Census table programme Tables 41 and 42 of the Community table programme of Population and Housing censuses in 2001 Mirror of tables 38 and 39 for LAU Deadline: 30 June 2003 ESTAT-Census@cec.eu.int
Available urban data All other countries are missing! Cyprus Lithuania Hungary Portugal Slovenia Sweden All other countries are missing!
Action: Remind your colleagues in the census unit to send data for tables 41 and 42 to Eurostat!
Thanks for listening ! Any Questions ?