1. Rural development statistics
Item 6 of the agenda
Overview of data collection exercise 2010
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Plan
Rural development concept
Statistical domains involved
Socio economic data need
Data collection for rural development grant exercise 2010
Report and data assessments
Overview of the exercise and examples
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3. Rural development concept
Broad concept covering the improvement of the quality of life and encouraging diversification of the economy in rural areas
Second pillar of the Common Agricultural Policy
Highlighted the urban-rural aspects of the EU regions important item of the EU regional policy
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4. Statistical domains involved
Rural development statistics
Socio-economic domains: demography, labour market, employment, education, economic accounts, economic activities, etc.
Agricultural and environmental domains
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5. Socio economic data need
Socio-economic data for rural development
Data by NUTS 3 regions
Data already available in Eurostat databases
Data not at Eurostat disposal need of additional breakdowns, etc.
Geographic location of services or facilities
Information not at Eurostat disposal, need of update, etc.
Gisco database
and specific geographical data sources
Urban-rural typology
Update
Need of additional data collection
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7. Data collection for rural development grant exercise 2010
start of the exercise
Purpose: Fulfilling the need of additional data
List of the requested data based on the former exercise and availability of the data in the NSIs (See Annex of the document)
Covering period
Data collection supported by grants
9 Member States applied to the grant and provided data and reports (AT, BG, DK, FI, HU, PL, RO, SK), a couple of countries offered to send some data without support
Technical part of the exercise has been finalised
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8. Report and data assessments
Completeness of the requested data
Metadata
Definition
Data source
Methodology used etc.
Quality assessment
Sustainability of the data delivery and availability and regular dissemination
Consistency with the data available in Eurostat databases
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9. EU coverage of the exercise
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10. Response rate of the exercise
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11. Response rate by domains
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12. Compared with Eurostat database
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13. Compared with Eurostat database by domains
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14. Example of demographic variable
Variable: Age structure by 5-years age groups
Definition: Population at 1st January
Data available in Eurostat databases by larger age groups
Data sources: register or estimation based on register
Data produced and disseminated on a regular basis
Complete datasets
Complete match with Eurostat database
No confidentiality and representativeness issues
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15. Example of economic variable
Variable: Employment in the food industry
Definition: Employment definition depends on the data source
Data available in Eurostat databases at NUTS2 and/or national levels
Data sources: Business register or Labour force survey
Data not produced and disseminated on a regular basis
Some datasets were incomplete or not provided at NUTS3 level
Some discrepancies with Eurostat database
Some representativeness issues have been reported
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16. Example of geographic variable
Variable: Location of primary school, address and geographical coordinates
Data sources: register, survey
Data produced and disseminated not on a regular basis
Incomplete datasets, geo-codification often have needed a specific work
Education classification refers more to education level
The address may be administrative address
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17. Thank you for your attention
contact
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