Major Development Belgium Working Group “Regional and Urban Statistics” 27 and 28 September 2010 http://economie.fgov.be

Regional data In collaboration with FPS Finances, georeferencing of dwelling’s addresses (based on cadastral geographical data) in order to enhance the quality of statistics at neighbourhood level. We will carry out a feasibility study to produce statistics for new geographical breakdown (for instance settlements, areas prone to flooding, river basins, urban blocks, etc). http://economie.fgov.be

Urban Audit : The evaluation of annual and comprehensive data has been sent to Eurostat. The data collection for annual data is completed. Several data 2009 are already available. Concerning comprehensive data, only data from cities still has to be collected. http://economie.fgov.be

Projects : Census 2011 essentially from administrative data, which means impoverishment of certain parameters (e.g. on mobility). We are still waiting for official agreement for access to some datasets, but the tests on older datasets were successful. Agriculture: we are studying the simplification of the annual farm survey through the use of administrative data from the regions. http://economie.fgov.be