1. Internet-based City and regional statistics in Amsterdam Jeroen Slot Research and Statistics Department City of Amsterdam, Netherlands

2. SCORUS 26th Biennial Conference 14-16 October Shanghai 2 City of Amsterdam

3. SCORUS 26th Biennial Conference 14-16 October Shanghai 3 Amsterdam  Metropolitain Area1.7 million inhabitants  City of Amsterdam750,000 inhabitants  14 buroughs30-80,000 inhabitants  ~80 neighbourhoods10,000 inhabitants

4. SCORUS 26th Biennial Conference 14-16 October Shanghai 4 CompStat adaptations  Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent act of stupidity* - Robert D. Behn: The Seven Big Errors of PerformanceStat  * Nietzsche

5. SCORUS 26th Biennial Conference 14-16 October Shanghai 5 Objectives Stadstat (Amsterdam)  Provide citizens (and intermediates, interestgroups, etc) with information on quality of life, on the city and neighbourhood level (status)  Provide citizens with information on - well specified - local policy ambitions (performance)  Stimulate involvement in and debate on local policies

6. SCORUS 26th Biennial Conference 14-16 October Shanghai 6

7. 7 Budget: entry principle  14 subjects = 14 chapters of the city budget  For example: Public space, sports and recreation  or public safety

8. SCORUS 26th Biennial Conference 14-16 October Shanghai 8 Safety: burglary (city and buroughs)

9. SCORUS 26th Biennial Conference 14-16 October Shanghai 9 Burglary: neighbourhood level (2007)

10. SCORUS 26th Biennial Conference 14-16 October Shanghai 10 Burglary: neighbourhood level (2003)

11. SCORUS 26th Biennial Conference 14-16 October Shanghai 11 Safety: overall safety (combined index, 2007)

12. SCORUS 26th Biennial Conference 14-16 October Shanghai 12 Policy ambition 2006-2010  Overall safety index should drop from 91 points (2006) to 85 points (2010)

13. SCORUS 26th Biennial Conference 14-16 October Shanghai 13 Safety: policy ambition

14. SCORUS 26th Biennial Conference 14-16 October Shanghai 14 Stadstat: summary  Two main ‘entries’ –Budget chapter –Political ambitions (~60 well specified goals)  Other ‘entries’ –Phenomena (within budget chapters); ~150 (and growing) –Aggregation level (city, burough, n’hood) –Time (year)  Other features –Entry by zipcode, name street –Composing ‘neighboorhood profiles’

15. SCORUS 26th Biennial Conference 14-16 October Shanghai 15 City and region monitor  GIS-application  Less descriptive, more analytical  Combining low aggregation statistics (zipcodes) into ‘concentration area’ maps

16. SCORUS 26th Biennial Conference 14-16 October Shanghai 16 Creative industries: media & entertainment 2005; N>10

17. SCORUS 26th Biennial Conference 14-16 October Shanghai 17 Concentration maps; construction process

18. SCORUS 26th Biennial Conference 14-16 October Shanghai 18 Creative industries: media & entertainment 2005; N>10

19. SCORUS 26th Biennial Conference 14-16 October Shanghai 19 Creative industries: media & entertainment 2005; N>100

20. SCORUS 26th Biennial Conference 14-16 October Shanghai 20 Creative industries: media & entertainment 2005; N>100

21. SCORUS 26th Biennial Conference 14-16 October Shanghai 21 Creative industries: media & entertainment 2005; N>400

22. SCORUS 26th Biennial Conference 14-16 October Shanghai 22 Emerging middle class migrants Surinamese 2000 (light blue) and 2006 (dark blue): N>25

23. SCORUS 26th Biennial Conference 14-16 October Shanghai 23 Moroccans 2000 (light blue) and 2006 (dark blue): N>25

24. SCORUS 26th Biennial Conference 14-16 October Shanghai 24 Almere: Surinamese 2002 (green N>50) and private housing 2002 (yellow N>80)

25. SCORUS 26th Biennial Conference 14-16 October Shanghai 25 Almere: Surinamese 2005 (green N>53) and private housing 2005 (yellow N>128)

26. SCORUS 26th Biennial Conference 14-16 October Shanghai 26 Almere: non-western migrants 2002 (green N>173) and private housing 2002 (yellow N>80)

27. SCORUS 26th Biennial Conference 14-16 October Shanghai 27 Almere: non-western migrants 2005 (green N>190) and private housing 2005 (yellow N>128)

28. SCORUS 26th Biennial Conference 14-16 October Shanghai 28 Final remarks  Stadstat –Maps are a powerful tool (tables are less powerful ) –No big audiences –No pricay problems or stigmatization –Important for internal communication  City and Region Monitor

29. SCORUS 26th Biennial Conference 14-16 October Shanghai 29  http://stadstat.osamsterdam.nl/ http://stadstat.osamsterdam.nl/  http://mapinfoserver.fmg.uva.nl/ http://mapinfoserver.fmg.uva.nl/  http://www.os.amsterdam.nl http://www.os.amsterdam.nl  j.slot@os.amsterdam.nl j.slot@os.amsterdam.nl