Urban Statistics on a national scale in the Netherlands Mathieu Vliegen Statistics Netherlands

Overview - Current situation - Project Urban Statistics * Regional Framework * Assessment statistics - Further actions

Current situation - Categorical approach * degree of urbanisation * background variable - Regional approach * cities: units at NUTS 5 level * city districts: census tracts * missing: higher geographic level

Framework: Urban Agglomerations - Definition (morphological) - Review methods of delimiting - Assessment method * urban built-up area * morphological zone * urban agglomeration

Framework: Urban Agglomerations Identification urban built-up area - source: digital land use map - identification categories and their localisation (within / adjacent to to built-up areas) - construction urban built-up area

Settlements in the Netherlands

Framework: Urban Agglomerations Identification morphological zone - aggregation land use categories * criterion: 50 meters * method: buffering - validation: address density (declining densities at the zone border)

Framework: Urban Agglomerations Identification urban agglomeration - agglomeration at the level of districts * criterion: area land - agglomeration at NUTS 5 level * criterion: number of inhabitants

Framework: Urban Region - Definition (functional) - Review methods of delimiting - Assessment method * centre of urban region * functional relations * urban region

Framework: Urban Region Identification centre urban region Criteria: * potential of regional customers * number of jobs * number of inhabitants of centre agglomeration

Framework: Urban Region Identification functional relations - Facilities: potential users (attraction model) - Labour market: commuting (non-hierarchic cluster analysis) - Housing market: removals

Framework: Urban Region Identification urban regions - Analysis clusters commuting as well as clusters removals - Confrontation results both analyses - Identification urban region

Assessment urban statistics Demand Report Working party of users * Spatial levels * Statistics and indicators * List of topics * Relation Topics / spatial level

Assessment urban statistics Supply: Inventory CBS - Geographic levels * Aggregation procedures * Extra processing * Registers outside the CBS * Database Regional Statistics - NUTS 5: Database Dutch Municipalities - Below NUTS 5: Database districts

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