1. Indicators by degree of urbanisation
Item 7.1 of the agenda
Valeriya Angelova Gorja Bartsch Eurostat Unit E4
WG on Regional, Urban and Rural Development statistics – 2014 October

2. Introduction Increasing demand for data by degree of urbanisation
Within the context of the EU urban agenda
For cohesion and rural development policies

3. Availability by domain
Labour market
Education
Living conditions and welfare
Tourism
Information Society
In total, about 40 tables are published by DEGURBA

4. Recent developments New indicators published for Labour market
Employment rates by sex and age
Unemployment rates by sex and age
New indicators to be released soon for Education
Early leavers from education and training by sex
Population / with tertiary education attainment by sex
Population with lower secondary education attainment by sex
Participation rate in education and training (last 4 weeks)
Young people neither in employment nor in education and training by sex (NEET rates)

5. Unemployment rates (15-74), 2013 (%)

6. Difference in employment rates (20-64), 2013
blue: urban advantage
green: rural advantage

7. Impact of the DEGURBA revision

8. Breaks in data time series in 2012 observed…
Caused by the degree of urbanisation updated in 2011?
Census effect?
Result of the economic crisis?
Other hidden factors?

9. Impact of the DEGRUBA update on the population distribution in the different classes – population remained in the same class (in %)

10. Severe material deprivation rate by DEGRUBA -difference between 2012 and 2010 figures (in %)

11. At-risk-of-poverty rate by degree of urbanisation (% of total population) - difference between 2012 and 2010 figures (in %)

12. Employment rate (% of the population aged 15 to 64) - difference between 2012 and 2010 figures (in %)

13. Conclusions and decisions
Only in situations where the figures for one of the classes goes up but goes down for the others one would expect this to be due to a change in the degree of urbanisation methodology.
Indicators by degree of urbanisation for 2012 are flagged with "b".
Data before and after 2012 were kept in the same table