1. Our Work Program – Achievements 2006 and Plans for 2007
Eurostat

2. Chapter 1
Achievements 2006

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

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

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

6. 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

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

8. Chapter 2
Plans for 2007

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

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

11. 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

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

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

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