Our Work Program – Achievements 2006 and Plans for 2007 berthold.feldmann@ec.europa.eu Eurostat

Chapter 1 Achievements 2006

Regional Indicators Regular update of various domains in dissemination web-site Answer numerous requests for methodological information

Dissemination Produce the Reference guide in three languages Publish the Regional Yearbook Participate at the IAOS conference in Ottawa, Canada Presentations: Conference Link

Further Development of Regional Statistics Amendment of the NUTS classification according to the Regulation Create a database of methodological information per country (MARS)

Urban Audit Presented the results of the 2003/2004 data collection at various international conferences Launch a “Reference Guide”, analysing the lessons learnt from the 2003/2004 collection Start the 2006/2007 data collection delay of 6 months due to contractual problems Revision of spatial units

Local Administrative Units Update the available information on LAU Create a new correspondence table between NUTS and postcodes

Chapter 2 Plans for 2007

Production Regional labour market statistics Regional statistics in various domains Population Agriculture Enterprise Transport R&D Tourism Health Education

Dissemination Regional Yearbook 2007 Reference Guide CARP – Cities and Regions Portraits on the web

Quality improvement Quality assurance of regional variables Methodological Database (MARS) to be finalised Develop new regional statistics Change dispersion measure (Structural Indicator) from NUTS level 2 to NUTS level 3

Urban Audit Urban Audit 2006/2007 data collection Perception Survey Quality check of the results Data analysis

NUTS and LAU Implementation of the NUTS change 2006 Administration of LAU Postcodes linked to new NUTS codes

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