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Organisational Set-Up of Urban Audit: Role of DG.REGIO and Eurostat

This talk discusses the role of DG.REGIO and Eurostat in the Urban Audit, the organization of data collection, and the role of the NUAC and cities. The talk covers the funding, data collection process, and the involvement of national and urban coordinators. The complexity of the organizational set-up is necessary to provide meaningful statistics about the quality of life in cities.

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Organisational Set-Up of Urban Audit: Role of DG.REGIO and Eurostat

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  1. Urban Audit: Organisational Set-up Berthold Feldmann

  2. Content of my talk • The role of DG REGIO and Eurostat • Organisation of data collection • Several levels from the data producer to the final database • The role of the NUAC and the cities

  3. Chapter 1 The role of the Commission

  4. DG REGIO • DG REGIO is the main user of comparable statistics • Used for policy purposes, among other Structural Funding • Until now, DG REGIO funded all the grants and contracts for the Urban Audit • Since this year co-financing with Eurostat

  5. Eurostat • Eurostat is the organiser of the data collection • It is also the expert in statistical questions (methodology) • End of 2004 Eurostat included the Urban Audit as part of its “core business” • Since then Eurostat co-finances the grants and contracts in connection with the Urban Audit

  6. Chapter 2 Data collection

  7. The European level • Similar to regional statistics, Eurostat cannot keep contact with all data producers • it is complex enough to keep contact with 25 Member States plus several candidate countries • Therefore for regional statistics the RESCO (Regional Statistics Coordination Officer) was created • Likewise for the Urban Audit the NUAC (National Urban Audit Coordinator) was created

  8. How we organise the data collection • Eurostat tries to deal only with the national contact point (RESCO or NUAC) • All data, collected from various sources, first flows into the national contact point • She or he then does a first quality check and transmits the data to Eurostat • The same applies for methodological questions

  9. Source 2 Source 3 Source 4 Source 5 Source 1 Source 6 NUAC Source 7 Free dissemination database production db urban statistics Data flow of urban statistics National level Eurostat

  10. Staff at Eurostat 4 persons in unit D2 “regional statistics and geographical information” are involved • B. Feldmann • T. Brandmüller • T. Carlquist • B. Huber

  11. The database manager • Berthold Huber • Urban statistics database • demography • Ramon classification server: NUTS update

  12. Mr NUTS • Torbiörn Carlquist • NUTS amendments • Statistical regions in candidate countries • Local level statistics • Spatial units in the Urban Audit

  13. Ms Urban • Teodora Brandmüller • Urban Audit data collection 2006 • Urban Audit quality control • Web Portrait of the Regions

  14. The head of sector • Berthold Feldmann • Team leader (planning, priorities, motivation) • Regional Yearbook supervisor • Urban Audit supervisor • Methodological database MARS

  15. Chapter 3 The role of NUAC and cities

  16. The National Urban Audit coordinator • ..receives the data from the cities or other sources (central database, regional statistical offices) • ..checks the data quality, in particular the comparability of data • ..sends the data to Eurostat in an agreed format • ..gives methodological advice to data collectors • ..discusses with Eurostat the meaningfulness of variables and indicators • ..discusses with Eurostat methodological issues

  17. The city statisticians • ..collect part of the Urban Audit data • ..take care that their data is comparable with the data of other cities • ..transmit the data to the NUAC in a standardised format • ..discusses methodological issues with the NUAC

  18. Final remark • The organisational set-up is necessarily quite complex, due to the nature of the data sources • It only works thanks to the good will of all participants and the dedication to our goal: • Provide users with meaningful statistics about the quality of life in cities

  19. Thanks for listening ! Any Questions ? Any questions?

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