Urban Audit II work Experience so far Riitta Koskinen

Content Summary National organisation Contacts Experience with Urban Audit I Tasks so far Plans in the near future Riitta Koskinen 5.12.2002

Location of Helsinki, Tampere, Turku and Oulu Distance between Helsinki and Oulu is 775 kilometres Riitta Koskinen 5.12.2002

How our experiences would help participating countries? Quick start helps collect the data Co-operation inside the Country Motivation of the people Create a communication network Informing all who are related to the project Riitta Koskinen 5.12.2002

Contacts - informing other parties First meeting with the cities’ representatives 28th October Co-operation and informing city representatives Informing everybody in Statistics Finland about the Urban Audit II project and its purpose Contacts to experts inside Statistics Finland Advise and help co-worker in Population Statistics Informing the Finnish Urban Network incl. Urban Indicator Working Group Riitta Koskinen 5.12.2002

Tasks so far Discussions with expert within Statistics Finland concerning the variable list Feedback to Eurostat on the definition of variables Feedback to Eurostat on the document about the Larger Urban Zones and sub-city units Organised national workshop between cities Contact and discussions with the Urban Audit I pilot national person Riitta Koskinen 5.12.2002

Data available and tasks for the near Future Our goal is to produce reliable, high-quality data for Urban Audit indicators Register-based census data is available Task 1 is done and it provides a good basis for the remaining work Next task is to organise data collection and to make a plan for data checking We are optimistic that we will have the key indicators in March 2003 Riitta Koskinen 5.12.2002