on the "Cities' and Regions' Profiles" (CARP) web-site workshop Report on the "Cities' and Regions' Profiles" (CARP) web-site workshop April 2007 in Luxemburg Teodora Brandmuller EUROSTAT Urban Audit NUAC meeting 23 & 24 April 2007

Participants outside the Commission Marc Carlton (United Kingdom) Enrique Garcilazo (OECD) Jiri Jedlicka (Czech Republic) Basho Poelman (Netherlands) Dominika Rogalinska (Poland) Klaus Trutzel (Germany) Dev Virdee (United Kingdom) Lewis Dijkstra, DG REGIO Urban Audit NUAC meeting 23 & 24 April 2007

The experience of others Web dissemination of regional & local data at the ONS Experiences of the CBS with cartographic entry - users and functionalities Disseminating of Regional Statistics on the Web: Lessons from the Countries' Experience – OECD The DG REGIO www.urbanaudit.org website Urban Audit NUAC meeting 23 & 24 April 2007

Major improvement of the Eurostat website Profiles: interactive one page overview of the latest data from key indicators per subject area and country or region Table-Graph-Map interface: highly interactive interface for displaying predefined datasets in various customizable graphical formats Table builder: display and download of (complex) open datasets based on a customizable, dynamic, interactive, multi-dimensional table view The planned "Cities' and Regions' Profiles" site should use these components as major building blocks. Urban Audit NUAC meeting 23 & 24 April 2007

Stakeholders of CARP Eurostat Contractor National Statistical Institutes, mapping agencies and other data providers (interregional data producers; etc) DG REGIO Other Commission DGs (AGRI, ENV, TREN, etc.) Other European Institutions (EESC, COR, ECB etc.) International organizations (OECD; UN; World Bank; IMF) Various levels of government (national, regional, local, etc.) Universities and research institutes Journalists General public Urban Audit NUAC meeting 23 & 24 April 2007

Needs of National Statistical Institutes – as suppliers and as users Data dissemination should be timely and respect the copyright and confidentiality aspects of the data Metadata should be included The work "behind the data" should be valorised. Conflicting interest may arise if a data producer wishes to sell the data on a profit-oriented basis More suggestions? Urban Audit NUAC meeting 23 & 24 April 2007

Content I. Profiles: short overview of the latest data from key indicators per area (region or city), displaying the exact value and the quintile position. A short description of the area, written in a "statistical language" – limited to facts. Table-Graph-Map interface: covering regions and also cities (not together with the regions). In case of the cities statistical maps on sub-city district level should be available. Urban Audit NUAC meeting 23 & 24 April 2007

Content II. Comparisons: comparing city-to city; region-to-region. It should be possible to choose sub groups, based on different selection criteria. Rankings: similar to the ranking function available from the www.urbanaudit.org site. Table builder Statistics on the database itself: includes information on the response rate, data availability, etc. Bulk download Urban Audit NUAC meeting 23 & 24 April 2007