1. Regions: Statistical yearbook The 2006 edition
Åsa Önnerfors
Eurostat

2. The publication process over the year
May: Translations of all texts by DG Translation (DGT). Decisions on pictures and lay-out for the publication.
June: Proof-reading of all texts by the Publications Office (OPOCE).
July and August: Desk-top publishing by our contractor Fotolito in Italy.
September and October: Printing and official publication. Presentation on the Book Fair in Frankfurt.
January: The preparations for producing the Regional yearbook starts with selecting the themes and authors for each chapter.
February: The maps and graphs are decided and the statistical data is being extracted.
March and April: The text for each chapter is written by authors within Eurostat, specialised in different statistical fields.

3. Regional Yearbook 2006 Covers data from EU-25, Bulgaria and Romania
News release on the 5th of October 2006
Published in three languages (DE, EN, FR)
Covers data from EU-25, Bulgaria and Romania
CD-ROM included

4. Table of contents Population Science, Technology and Innovation
Regional gross domestic product
Household accounts
Regional labour market
Labour productivity
Urban statistics
Science, Technology and Innovation
Structural business statistics
Health
Transport
Agriculture

5. Some highlights
The population chapter focuses on fertility rates and other demographic trends throughout the European regions
Labour productivity is a new chapter this year where GDP is put in relation to the number of people employed in a region
The transport chapter shows many interesting maps, for instance on number of road traffic deaths (per million inhabitants) and on private car ownership

6. Population
“It is a reasonable projection that, on average for the EU-25 and if current trends prevail, the old age dependency ratio will approxi-mately double during the next 50 years.”

7. Labour productivity
“This map shows how strongly labour productivity has risen in the regions of the new Member States, coming very close to the level attained by the old Member States.”

8. Transport
“This maps shows private car ownership by NUTS 2 region and it’s evolution between 1998 and This mobility indicator is in many cases related to the economic development of a region.”

9. Interesting?
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10. Thank you for listening!
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