1. Working Party on Regional Statistics 1-2 October 2012
Work Programme 2013
Gunter Schäfer Head of Unit Eurostat Unit E4 Regional indicators and geographical information
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Our mission
Eurostat
to provide the European Union with a high-quality statistical statistics at European level that enable comparisons between countries and regions.
National statistics are important for national purposes in Member States whereas EU statistics are essential for decisions and evaluation at European level
Eurostat’s mission is to provide the European Union with a high-quality statistical information service. Its task is to provide the European Union with statistics at European level that enable comparisons between countries and regions. Decision-makers at EU level, in Member States, in local government and in business need statistics to make decisions
The public and media need statistics for an accurate picture of contemporary society
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Our mission
Unit - Regional indicators and geographical information
Management of the common geographical information service used by the Commission
Provision of statistics to support the European Cohesion Policy
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Key objectives in 2013
Support policy-making by the use of spatial information combined with social, economic and environmental statistics
Put in place a more integrated production system of EU statistics aiming at efficiency gains
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5. Cross-cutting actions
Coordination of Sub-national Statistics in Eurostat, in the Commission and in the ESS
Improvement of the technical infrastructure for urban and regional statistics
Quality improvement actions and methodological work related to the data collections
Improvement of dissemination tools
Cooperation with Eurostat thematic units on regional statistics data collection in all phases of the statistical production cycle, the further evolution of indicators, metadata maintenance and their methodological basis as well as dissemination issues. Coordination with policy DGs of the Commission on regional, maritime, rural and urban statistics. Cooperation with ESS on regional maritime, rural and urban statistics related issues. The process includes the actions related to the revision and maintenance of the degree of urbanisation classification.
Improvement of the technical tools for the data validation, loading and processing of the production database
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Revision of the collection and dissemination of the regional labour market data
Quality issues of the regional labour market data (different sources used at NUTS 3 level)
Eurostat Regional Yearbook 2013
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Urban statistics
Implementation of the Urban Audit data collection 2012/2013
Rework the concept of the Urban Audit for the period 2014 and beyond
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Spatial dimension
Safeguarding of the NUTS classification and managing the revision
Aiming at a harmonised definition of Labour Market Areas (LMA)
Updating the Web-ILSE application
Coordination of the NUTS classification and regular revision via amendment regulations as well as Implementing Regulations. The process includes annual collection of Local Administrative Unit 2 (LAU 2, commune level) as basis for definition of NUTS boundaries.
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New data collection round to complement the database
Compilation of aggregates based on regional typologies
The process covers: -
- - elaboration of statistical publications (dedicated websites, SiFs, Statistics Explained pages, pocketbooks) devoted to rural development, maritime statistics and regional labour market
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Maritime statistics
Coordination mainly with DG MARE, DG MOVE and DG REGIO
Compilation of indicators
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11. Thank you for your attention!
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