1. Working Party on Regional Statistics 1-2 October 2012
City statistics
Teodora Brandmuller Eurostat Unit E4 Regional indicators and geographical information
Working Party on Regional Statistics 1-2 October 2012

2. Programme for a revision of Urban Audit
Revised frequency of data collections
Focused list of indicators
Consistent list of cities
Consistent spatial definition of cities
Improved the data validation process
Increased direct cooperation with cities
Improved communication with users
Increased awareness of urban statistics
Reach an overall 80% response rate
Exploit synergies with other statistical data collections

3. The indicator dimension
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4. Working Party on Regional Statistics 1-2 October 2012
Consolidation
Simplification and clear methodology
Quality improvement (higher data coverage, more reliability, more comparability)
Concentration on variables and indicators needed for policy making
Reduction of the number of variables and indicators
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5. Simplification and clear methodology
Old variables
Nationals born abroad
Number of residents born abroad (not only nationals)
New variable
Foreign-born
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6. Working Party on Regional Statistics 1-2 October 2012
Quality improvement
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7. Concentration on variables and indicators needed for policy making
Old variable
Number of stops of public transport
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8. Concentration on variables and indicators needed for policy making
New variables
Persons living in households with very low work intensity
Persons at risk of poverty after social transfers
Severely materially deprived persons
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9. Working Party on Regional Statistics 1-2 October 2012
The time dimension
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10. Working Party on Regional Statistics 1-2 October 2012
Improve timeliness
In production
Period data
Annual data
In dissemination
Annual data – early 2013
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11. Working Party on Regional Statistics 1-2 October 2012
The spatial dimension
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12. Working Party on Regional Statistics 1-2 October 2012
Levels
Larger Urban Zone (LUZ)
Greater City
City
Sub City Districts level 1
Sub City Districts level 2
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13. Working Party on Regional Statistics 1-2 October 2012
New Coding
FR National level (change GR to EL)
FR001L1 LUZ plus version number
FR001K1 Greater city plus version number
FR001C1 Core city plus version number
FR001D01 Sub-city district level 1
FR001D Sub-city district level 2
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14. Sub city districts – which cities?
for all greater cities
for all capital cities
for all non-capital cities with more than inhabitants at the core city level
The definition of sub-city districts for non-capital cities with less than 250 000 inhabitants at the core city level is optional.
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15. Sub city districts – how?
population between 5000 and
One city shall have at least 10 sub-city districts.)
internally homogenous in terms of social structure and built environment as far as possible
Take on board established city districts as Sub city districts level 1 if needed
For most cities only level 2 is defined
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16. Data collection 2011/2013

17. Participation in the projectBE  FR ? MT FI BG IE  NL SE CZ IT AT UK DK CY PL CH DE LV PT NO EE LT RO TR EL LU SI ES HU SK
 signed grant agreement  participate without grant

18. Working Party on Regional Statistics 1-2 October 2012
Next steps
Actions
2012
2013
2014 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1
Start
Screening of variables
Compilation of ANNUAL data (ref /2011)
Compile an interim operational report
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19. Working Party on Regional Statistics 1-2 October 2012
Actions
2012
2013
2014 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1
Compilation of EXHAUSTIVE data (ref )
Compilation of ANNUAL data (ref /2012)
Quality control
Disseminate data
Compile a final operational report
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20. Next steps: Screening of variables
07-Oct-2009
Next steps: Screening of variables
Find out about data availability
Resolve remaining issues of variable definitions
Classify the list of variables for each territorial level into three categories: A= available, B= can be estimated, C= can not be estimated
Transmit the conclusions to Eurostat in an Excel spreadsheet (use template from CIRCA)

21. Programme for a revision of Urban Audit✔
Revised frequency of data collections
Focused list of indicators
Consistent list of cities
Consistent spatial definition of cities
Improved the data validation process
Increased direct cooperation with cities
Improved communication with users
Increased awareness of urban statistics
Reach an overall 80% response rate
Exploit synergies with other statistical data collections

22. Thank you for your attention!
Working Party on Regional Statistics 1-2 October 2012

23. NUAC meeting Luxembourg
Data collection 2009/2011
07-Oct-2009
NUAC meeting Luxembourg

24. Final reports and final payments
27-June-2011
Final reports and final payments BE
  FR - MT FI
 ? BG IE NL SE  CZ IT AT UK DK CY PL CH DE LV PT NO EE LT RO  HR EL  LU SI TR ES HU SK

25. 07-Oct-2009
The "4 eyes" principle