Local Administrative Units Working Group on Regional statistics 16 October 2007 Torbioern.Carlquist@ec.europa.eu 16/10/2007

LAU classification Member States send LAU lists annually since 2003 New deadline from 2007: beginning of July (t+6 months) Eurostat has to publish the lists 2006 version is now available on: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/nuts/lau_en.html Statistical data on area and population included from 16-18 countries each year – not published 16/10/2007

LAU level 1 Corresponds to “districts” In some countries, “municipalities” LAU 1 is defined in 19 out of 27 countries In NL and SE, LAU 2 are large and can be used as LAU1 Missing in France, Spain, Italy, Austria, Belgium, Romania Eurostat proposal to promote the LAU 1 by collecting and publishing basic data (area, population) Shall we go ahead with the LAU 1 project despite the missing countries? 16/10/2007

SIRE database - nomenclature NPS Nomenclature Preparation System Create harmonised EU codes for the LAU1 and LAU2 Extension of the NUTS 3 code The timing: EU codes will always lag behind the evolution in the Member States The work is outsourced to a consultant company Migration to a new version of NPS 16/10/2007

SIRE database – census data 1999/2002 population census data at LAU 2 level Sex, age, economic status, nationality, educational attainment, households, dwellings, commuting Two tables for morphological urban areas Separate request on official surface area Work on validation and uploading is outsourced to a consultant company Not disseminated, but used within Commission 16/10/2007

Use of LAU data Link to digital maps in GISCO Aggregate LAU to user-defined geographical zones Dis-aggregation of population to 1x1 km grids with Corine Land Cover as ancillary information Degree of Urbanization as used in the Labour Force Survey OECD definition of rural regions Input to the Urban Audit: List of cities above a certain threshold Commuting data to check the Larger Urban Zones 16/10/2007