EU-TTWA method: improvements, documentation and sharing knowledge activities Luisa Franconi and Sandro Cruciani Eurostat, Luxembourg, 28 June 2017 Istat, Directorate for Territorial and Environmental Statistics sacrucia@ istat.it, franconi@istat.it

Activities and initiatives carried out Future actions Conclusions Plan Aims of the Grant Activities and initiatives carried out Future actions Conclusions Final meeting: Eurostat 28 Junel 2017

Aims of the Italian participation to Eurostat Grant Istat aims for this grant are: - Short-term aims Further improve the products already delivered to the Expert group on LMA harmonisation; Share experiences in the development of LMAs; - Medium-term aims Build a group of experts in the area of LMA development in order to increase the knowledge and improve advances. Kick off meeting: Eurostat 5 April 2016

Task 3: to foster knowledge transfer by cooperation Aims and Tasks Aim: to make available methodologies and tools to facilitate the development of LMAs among EU countries. Task 1: to systematise, improve and make available the methodological work carried out within Eurostat Task Force; Task 2: to create an efficient tool for LMA development coupled with its documentation to be distributed freely Task 3: to foster knowledge transfer by cooperation Task 4: to build sustainable capacity. Final meeting: Eurostat 28 Junel 2017

The Deliverable: Description of EU-TTWA methodology has been released. Systematise and improve methodology experiences Task 1: The Deliverable: Description of EU-TTWA methodology has been released. The detailed report is freely available at http://www.istat.it/en/files/2016/03/Description-of-the-LabourMarketAreas-algorithm.pdf Final meeting: Eurostat 28 Junel 2017

https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=LabourMarketAreas Create an efficient tool Task 2: The package LabourMarketAreas v.3 is available in the R repository, Cran: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=LabourMarketAreas It covers the whole process of LMA delineation and dissemination It is open source: it is modifiable and re-usable by all; Complete documentation of all functions. Final meeting: Eurostat 28 Junel 2017

Evolution of the tool 2013 2014 2016 2017 TF Grant package LabourMarketAreas 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 SLL www.cran.r-project.org script v 1.0 v 2.0 v 3.0 + speed + speed utilities stats Java script script + labelling storage + utilities fine tuning visualisation stats

We have released tools: IT tools Task 2: We have released tools: to identify Industrial Districts. (Istat web page and Cros portal) to develop small area estimation of unemployment at LMA level Proof of Concept for a web application to disseminate statistics at LMA level starting from data at municipality level (presentation at the workshop in Rome) Final meeting: Eurostat 28 Junel 2017

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cros/content/labour-market-areas_en Foster knowledge exchange and best practice Task 3: Foster knowledge exchange and best practices: three meetings have been organized (Nuremberg, June 2016, Paris January 2017 and Rome June 2017): all material available on Cros portal https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cros/content/labour-market-areas_en The first draft of the Guidelines for LMA delineation has been developed and released for comments 15 June 2017. Final meeting: Eurostat 28 Junel 2017

Building sustainable capacity: Training course in Rome. Build sustainable capacity Task 4: Building sustainable capacity: Training course in Rome. All material is available on Cros portal Final meeting: Eurostat 28 Junel 2017

Uploaded all material on Cros portal Dissemination Task 5: Set up a Web page in our Institutional Web site; http://www.istat.it/en/archive/182743 a service e-mail address has been created for all request related to this area: lma_it@istat.it Uploaded all material on Cros portal Participation to Scorus Conference: Lisbon 2016 Paper in Special Issue of SJIAOS forthcoming Final meeting: Eurostat 28 Junel 2017

We look forward to starting new cooperation activities Experience made so far has been extremely positive: A lot of work done A lot of cooperation A lot of motivation Question: to export this experience in other MSs we need to show utility of LMAs and generate interest in the creation of this geography We look forward to starting new cooperation activities Final meeting: Eurostat 28 Junel 2017

Thank you - Grazie lma_it@istat.it For more information please contact: lma_it@istat.it Final meeting: Eurostat 28 Junel 2017