1. An example of data use: data analysis of German cities

2. The German Urban Audit Community
35 towns Inhabitants
meanwhile...
38 towns inhabitants representing 70 % of inhabitants in cities with more than

3. Urban Audit steering committee
Common Tasks:
Data collection
Data organization
Data Analysis
Reporting

4. Common Data Analysis and Reporting to support Common Tasks:
Standards of Assessment for Local Reports
Common standards of Assessment and Positioning
Search for structural Typification of Cities
Identification of the local position in the context of the cohesion process

5. Monitoring the results of policy, economy and evaluation of public structures and supply, concerning:
local governance and local economy
results of local, national and european cohesion policies
structural trends (e.G. demographical change, knowledge-based society, globalisation )

6. Some examples of our data analysis
The main task is: How to manage the quantity of data and find the balance between ”concentration” and ”differentiation”:
avoiding ”bulks of data” and incoherent data compression
... it’s a “long and winding road” to suitable results

7. We‘ve reached this point so far

8. Some examples of our data analysis
First step: attempt of Cluster-analysis without results because of missing and/or deficient data
Second step: correlation analysis of bivariate distributions

10. Third step: Construction of thematical Dimensions
Bivariate distribution of the cities on two dimensions •“economic prosperity” •”social cohesion”

11. Dimension „total value of economic prosperity“
Independent variable: GDP per capita
active population per area
structure of employment
employment rate
employment rate age
employment rate age
rate of self-employed
share of employed in financial intermediation, business activities
share of employed in public admin., health, education, other

12. Dimension „total value of social cohesion“
Independent variable: Unemployed rate
rate of households with less than half of the national average income
rate of persons reliant on social security benefits (>50%)
rate of deaths under 65 per year per 1000 inh.
infant mortality

13. Distribution of the Urban Audit cities according to their values on the dimensions economic prosperity and social cohesion

14. Next steps: Supporting the cities to manage the data by offering
”Adjusted analysis”
”tuned applicatons”
Common Monitoring
Individual, local (regional) reports
multivariate analysis