1. Overview of Regional Indicators
Item 6.1 of the agenda
Gorja Bartsch
Eurostat Unit E4
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2. Regional indicators (by NUTS)
6.1 Overview 6.2 Regional accounts 6.3 Regional social, income and living conditions (SILC) indicators 6.4 Regional labour market 6.5 How's life in your region? (OECD)
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3. Regional indicators in support of EU policy
Two recent examples:
Regional Business Demography
Measures business dynamics at regional level for "smart growth" agenda
Regional Environment Questionnaire
Data on waste and wastewater treatment for environmental and cohesion policy
REQ 2014 to be lauched 10/2014
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4. Regional business demography pilot data collection 2012
Grants covered 2008, 2009 and 2010 data
BG, DK, ES, FR, HU, AT, RO, SL, SK, FI, NL as well as CZ, IT, LT, PL, EE, PT
NUTS 2 and 3 by size class and NACE Rev. 2
Number of enterprises (incl. high growth), births, deaths, survivals, employment
Feasibility of regional breakdowns from national data collection demonstrated by most NSIs
Data published in April 2014
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5. Use of data in 6th Cohesion report, p. 25
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6. Use of data in 6th Cohesion report, p. 26
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7. Regional business demography: the way forward
RBD data will potentially become a critical policy indicator to analyse regional business dynamics
Two-year project with OECD to improve methodology
RBD 2015 (for 2011, 2012 and 2013 data) to be launched soon
Euro in grants financed by DG REGIO
Aim: establishing the tool in NSI's production systems for future data collections under FRIBS
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8. Regional indicators (by NUTS)
6.2 Regional accounts 6.3 Regional social, income and living conditions (SILC) indicators 6.4 Regional labour market 6.5 How's life in your region? (OECD)
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9. Thank you for your attention
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