1. Urban Statistics on a national scale in the Netherlands
Mathieu Vliegen Statistics Netherlands

2. Overview - Current situation - Project Urban Statistics
* Regional Framework
* Assessment statistics
- Further actions

3. Current situation - Categorical approach * degree of urbanisation
* background variable
- Regional approach
* cities: units at NUTS 5 level
* city districts: census tracts
* missing: higher geographic level

4. Framework: Urban Agglomerations
- Definition (morphological)
- Review methods of delimiting
- Assessment method
* urban built-up area
* morphological zone
* urban agglomeration

5. Framework: Urban Agglomerations
Identification urban built-up area
- source: digital land use map
- identification categories and their
localisation (within / adjacent to to built-up areas)
- construction urban built-up area

6. Settlements in the Netherlands

8. Framework: Urban Agglomerations
Identification morphological zone
- aggregation land use categories
* criterion: 50 meters
* method: buffering
- validation: address density (declining densities at the zone border)

10. Framework: Urban Agglomerations
Identification urban agglomeration
- agglomeration at the level of districts
* criterion: area land
- agglomeration at NUTS 5 level
* criterion: number of inhabitants

13. Framework: Urban Region
- Definition (functional)
- Review methods of delimiting
- Assessment method
* centre of urban region
* functional relations
* urban region

14. Framework: Urban Region
Identification centre urban region
Criteria:
* potential of regional customers
* number of jobs
* number of inhabitants of centre agglomeration

15. Framework: Urban Region
Identification functional relations
- Facilities: potential users (attraction model)
- Labour market: commuting
(non-hierarchic cluster analysis)
- Housing market: removals

16. Framework: Urban Region
Identification urban regions
- Analysis clusters commuting as well as clusters removals
- Confrontation results both analyses
- Identification urban region

19. Assessment urban statistics
Demand
Report Working party of users
* Spatial levels
* Statistics and indicators
* List of topics
* Relation Topics / spatial level

20. Assessment urban statistics
Supply: Inventory CBS
- Geographic levels
* Aggregation procedures
* Extra processing
* Registers outside the CBS
* Database Regional Statistics
- NUTS 5: Database Dutch Municipalities
- Below NUTS 5: Database districts

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