Supply of historic data in case of a NUTS change berthold.feldmann@ec.europa.eu Eurostat

Legal obligation NUTS Regulation Article 5 § 4 When an amendment is made to the NUTS classification, the Member State concerned shall transmit to the Commission the time series for the new regional breakdown, to replace data already transmitted. The list of the time series and their length will be specified in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 7(2) taking into account the feasibility of providing them.

Two conflicting goals Interest of the users for long time series for in-depth analysis Burden on statistical offices to produce historic time series

No historic time series required i.e. starting year of new data = 2007 Agriculture Education Health Infectious diseases Health infrastructure Structural Business Survey Transport

Historic time series required Theme required starting year Population 1990 Health - causes of death 1994 Labour market data 1999 Regional Accounts Environment 2001 Research & development 2003 Tourism 2005

Regional data at NUTS level 3 Topic Content Population Density of the average total population Births and deaths Annual average population by sex Regional Accounts Gross domestic product at market prices Gross value added at basic prices Total employment and number of employees R&D Patents applications High tech patents applications Tourism Number of establishments, bedrooms and beds Labour market Unemployment by sex and age groups Unemployment rates by sex and age groups Economically active population by sex and age groups

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