1. City Statistics Illustrated
Gorja BARTSCH Eurostat E4 Regional statistics and geographical information

4. Objectives
Increase the visibility and use of European statistics on cities
Present the latest Urban Audit data in a visual, more user-friendly way
Enable easy comparisons of cities
Thus implementing the Eurostat strategy to complement exisiting publications with interactive, web-based tools

5. Main features Data for 941 core cities (EU28, TR, NO, CH)
20 indicators based on relevance/availability
Data refer to 2012 or the latest available year (back to 2008)
Search function for city names

6. Indicators pre-selected
Population on 1 January (T/M/F) Population change over 1 year (%) Women per 100 men Young-age dependency ratio (%) Old-age dependency ratio (%) Age dependency ratio (%) Nationals as proportion of population (%) Foreigners as proportion of population (%) EU foreigners as proportion of population (%) Non-EU foreigners as proportion of population (%)

7. Indicators pre-selected (2)
Crude birth rate (per 1000 inhabitants) Crude death rate (per 1000 inhabitants) Infant mortality rate (per 1000 live births) Average size of households Proportion of households that are 1-person households (%) Students in higher education (ISCED level 5-6), total Unemployment rate (M/T/F) (%) Activity rate (M/T/F) (%) Number of registered cars (per 1000 population) People killed in road accidents (per population)

8. Interactive visualisations

9. Fixed size of circles based on population
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Colour legend to show the values (6 classes)

10. Mouse-over to display the exact value

12. Selection of cities per country

13. Bar chart

14. Search function

16. Compare selected cities with Ctrl key

17. Advanced functions to compare different indicators

18. Scatter plot

19. Zoom in and display city names

20. Distribution plot

21. Data table

22. Search function

23. Pivot function

25. Next steps Looking forward to YOUR feedback!
Final testing and bug-fixing
Go live by end of June
Presentation at the European Week of Regions and Cities in Brussels (October)
Data updates every 6 months
Integration of additional indicators and/or time series based on availability

26. Points for Discussion Your experiences with similar tools
Feedback on the features and visualisations
Use of static data: right approach to cope with gaps regarding coverage/timeliness?