1. NUAC conference 18th June 2014 Daniel SANCHEZ-SERRA
The FUA database
NUAC conference 18th June 2014
Daniel SANCHEZ-SERRA

2. Current application and future directions
EU-OECD definition applied to 29 OECD countries, FUA covering two-thirds of OECD population. Increase country coverage (what when no commuting data?)
Metropolitan database for FUA larger than 500k people. Increase indicators on FUA (also smaller ones).
FUA according to 2000 boundaries and population. Capture urban areas extension changes over the time.

3. Utility of the methodology to different audiences
1) Inform society
2) Contribute to research
3) Identify policy implications
OECD Ministerial meeting
Academic papers
EU Urban Agenda
Metropolitan explorer
Methodological notes
OECD National Urban
Policy Reviews
Metropolitan database
Videos, brochures
Regions at a Glance 2013
Bridge governance and economic performance
Well-being in cities

4. Metropolitan database (current and future indicators)
- Population (level and growth)
- Population density
- Population by age
- Mobility and migration
-Total Area
-Urbanised area (share and change)
-Polycentricity
-Concentration of population in core areas
- Sprawl index
- Local units
- Local units in core area
- Territorial fragmentation
- GDP (level and growth)
- GDP per capita (level and change)
- Patents application
- Education and skills
- Employment (level and change)
- Employment rate
- Labour force (level and change)
- Unempl. (total and change)
- Unempl. rate
- Income
- Crime statistics (motor vehicles theft, reported murders)
- Air pollution
- CO2 emissions per capita
- Co2 emissions from transport and energy sector
- Transport (modal share)
Demographic
Urban form
Territorial organisation
Economic and innovation
Labour market/Social
Environmental

5. Collaboration with data producers
Extension of the database …
new indicators
improve the current ones
(i.e. Employment,..)
…requires collaboration with data producers
NSO
Academia and other institutions

6. Metropolitan analysis was part of the Regions at a Glance 2013
The series OECD Regions at a Glance compares major regional patterns and trends across OECD countries.
Regions at a Glance 2013
(released 4th December 2013)
Special focus: Metropolitan areas in OECD countries
Regions as drivers of the national competitiveness
Sub national finance and investment for regional development
Inclusion and equal access to quality services in regions
Environmental sustainability in regions
Impact of the economic crisis on regional economies in each chapter

7. Urbanisation Urbanisation interacts strongly with periphery areas
Population growth by city types and city/commuting zone (average yearly growth rates)

8. Economic competitiveness
..and they account for large share of the national GDP growth ( )
Metropolitan areas account for around half of the OECD population, employment and GDP,…
Source: OECD metropolitan database; metropolitan areas are functional urban areas with at least 500,000 population
Note: GDP and Employment in the metropolitan areas are estimated by adjusting the GDP values of TL2 regions
% of GDP, employment and population in metropolitan areas (2012)

9. Environmental sustainability
Different urban patterns give place to different sources of CO2 emission
Source: OECD metropolitan database; metropolitan areas are functional urban areas with at least 500,000 population
Share of CO2 emissions from transport and energy sector in the metropolitan areas with more than 1.5 million people, 2008

10. Administrative organisation
Governance will have to take into account the administration organisation of metropolitan areas
Note: OECD metropolitan database; metropolitan areas are functional urban areas with at least 500,000 population
Top 20 Metro areas with the highest territorial fragmentation (number of local municipalities per 1,000 inhabitants)

11. Thank you!
On line report: “Redefining urban: a new way to measure metropolitan areas” , OECD Publishing, 2012,
Interactive maps and data on metro areas
interactive edition:
Metro areas analysis in country profiles presented during the TDPC Ministerial meeting in Marseille (Dec. 2013)