1. Discussion Group Meeting on Regional Statistics – 11th October 2011
Statistics used for Maritime Policy and Rural development
Oct-2011

2. Discussion Group on Regional statistics
Plan
General framework of Rural development and Maritime Policy statistics
Data sources / collection
Typology used by Rural development
Themes used by Maritime Policy statistics
Overview of data used for Rural development and Maritime Policy statistics
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3. General framework of Rural development and Maritime Policy statistics
The domains focus on socio economic fields including
Demography
Labour market, employment
Education
Economic accounts, economic activities etc.
The geographic areas for these domains use data at national, sub-national level including
Data at NUTS3 level
Precise geo-spatial data such as geographical coordinates of facilities (e.g.: port, school)
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4. Data sources / collection
Eurostats thematic units
Population, Labour market, Living condition, Education, Health, Tourism, Business statistics, Energy, Transport…
Geographic information
Gisco database
Other tools (e.g.TeleAtlas)
Data collection
Rural development grant exercise 2010 (data send by MS end 2011)
Other collection through (e.g. NSIs website, EU register…)
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5. Typology used by Rural development
Rural/Urban typology
Available at NUTS3 level
Split the NUTS3 regions
Predominantly rural
Intermediate
Predominantly urban
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9. Themes used by Maritime Policy statistics
Coastal regions: 446 NUTS3 regions defined for statistical purpose
Basins: Geographic entities made up maritime areas and coastal regions bordering these areas
Maritime sector (on going): set of activities linked to the sea
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13. Overview of data used - Data collected by thematic units
No additional requirement
example: Annual average population by sex at NUTS3 dataset: demo_r_d3avg
Please maintain data production
of existing data available at NUTS3 level
Additional requirement fulfilled with the assistance of the thematic unit example: employment by economic activity aggregated for rural/urban NUTS3 regions dataset: lfst_r_lfe2en2
Please assist unit E4 in fulfilling the additional requirements
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Overview of data used - Data collected via grants and through NSIs website, EU register…
Additional requirements
Data available at higher NUTS level (e.g. migration, employment by sector)
Data available at NUTS3 level but need of additional breakdown (e.g. additional age groups)
Example: Total nights spent by tourist accommodation at NUTS 3 level
Please assist unit E4 in validating these data sets
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15. Thank you for your attention
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