1. Supply of historic data in case of a NUTS change
Eurostat

2. Legal obligation NUTS Regulation Article 5 § 4
When an amendment is made to the NUTS classification, the Member State concerned shall transmit to the Commission the time series for the new regional breakdown, to replace data already transmitted.
The list of the time series and their length will be specified in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 7(2) taking into account the feasibility of providing them.

3. Two conflicting goals
Interest of the users for long time series for in-depth analysis
Burden on statistical offices to produce historic time series

4. No historic time series required i.e. starting year of new data = 2007
Agriculture
Education
Health
Infectious diseases
Health infrastructure
Structural Business Survey
Transport

5. Historic time series required
Theme
required starting year
Population
1990
Health - causes of death
1994
Labour market data
1999
Regional Accounts
Environment
2001
Research & development
2003
Tourism
2005

6. Regional data at NUTS level 3
Topic
Content
Population
Density of the average total population
Births and deaths
Annual average population by sex
Regional Accounts
Gross domestic product at market prices
Gross value added at basic prices
Total employment and number of employees
R&D
Patents applications
High tech patents applications
Tourism
Number of establishments, bedrooms and beds
Labour market
Unemployment by sex and age groups
Unemployment rates by sex and age groups
Economically active population by sex and age groups

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