1. Regions: Statistical yearbook The 2005 edition
Åsa Önnerfors
June 1997 Amsterdam Treaty

2. Content of my talk Background Partners in the process
Table of contents
Some examples from the 2005 edition

3. Regions: Statistical yearbook 2005
Published in three languages (DE, EN and FR)
12 chapters with different general themes
Covers data from EU-25, Bulgaria and Romania
CD-ROM included

4. Essential partners in the process:
16 Eurostat specialist authors
The map specialist (GISCO)
Publication specialists: the dissemination unit within Eurostat and the Publications Office
The lay-out contractor and the contracted printer

5. Table of contents POPULATION AGRICULTURE
REGIONAL GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUKT
HOUSEHOLD ACCOUNTS
REGIONAL LABOUR MARKET
TRANSPORT
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
STRUCTURAL BUSINESS STATISTICS
HEALTH
URBAN STATISTICS
EDUCATION
TOURISM

6. Examples from the 2005 edition:
The population chapter reveals and tries to explain regional differences in fertility as well as fertility trends within the EU-25, Bulgaria and Romania.
The transport chapter reappears again this year and includes advanced maps on maritime, air and road transport on regional level.
Education is a new chapter this year, focusing on education levels and life long learning participation.

7. Population
This map shows that fertility is relatively high in most regions of Ireland, the Netherlands, Finland and France and low in most regions of Spain, Italy, Greece and the central European Member States.

8. Transport
This maps shows that regions of all new Member States except Cyprus, observed increases in air transport from 2002 to Even if absolute total figures are still constantly lower than in the regions of old Member States, increases of more than 10 % are very frequent.

9. Education
The proportion of the population aged 25 to 64 years in the regions which have attained the tertiary level of education is shown in this map. The region with the highest education attainment in Europe is Inner London.

10. Regions: Statistical yearbook 2005
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