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October 2008Scorus conference How to define attractiveness? Local government Residents Attractive city Where the perceived quality of life is good Where people like to live and workTRANSCRIPT
October 2008
The Urban Audit – measuring the attractiveness in European cities
Teodóra Brandmüller Eurostat – the statistical office of the European Union
SCORUS Sessions in the 2008 IAOS Conference
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How to define attractiveness?
Local government
Socioeconomically attractive city
Where the city government chooses to make changes where one group of citizens can win if it is not at the expense of another group of citizens
October 2008 Scorus conference
How to define attractiveness?
Local government
Residents
Attractive city
Where the perceived quality of life is good
Where people like to live and work
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Local government
How to define attractiveness?
Local government
Economy
Residents
Attractive city…
has the ability to attract factors necessary for economic development
maintains and enhance its competi-tiveness by achieving a flexible and diverse local economic structure which would better position itself in the global competition.
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How to define attractiveness?
Local government
Economy
Residents
Other cities Attractive city
Based on the available data covering several domains, rankings among different group of cities are created. These are assessed using different benchmarking techniques to find the “most attractive city”.
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Different perspectives – different information needs
city government Information on tax policies
Perception surveysQuality of life indicators
residents
other cities Benchmarking
economy Labour market indicatorsEconomic aspects
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Partial answer to this information need:The Urban Audit
The Urban Audit is a joint effort by DG Regio, Eurostat and the European Statistical System to provide reliable and comparative statistical information on selected urban areas
Domains covered:
Population
Social aspects
Economy
Civic Involvement
Environment
Education
Transport
Tourism & Culture
Information Society
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Dimensions of the Urban Audit dataset
More than 260 indicators (derived series) calculated
Reference years 1991 reduced data set 1996 reduced data set 2001 complete data set 2004 latest data set
We also use neighbouring years, if the reference year is not available
Three spatial units 321 cities in EU27, plus cities from NO, CH, HR and TR larger urban zones (LUZ) sub-city information
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Data availability (for the core city)
0%
10%
20%
30%40%
50%
60%70%
1991 1996 2001 2004Reference year
This is a voluntary data collection
Census years
Some indicators related to the ability to attract residents
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The total population of cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants is more than 210 million, 44% of the EU-27 population.
Where people live in Europe
over 1 million13.7%
large (250-1mio)12.3%
medium (50-250)17.9%
small (5-50)29.8%
country-side26.2%
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In the United Kingdom 61% of the national population lives in cities over 50,000 inhabitants, in Portugal 17%
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10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
UK FR GR IT SK SI LU PT
Share of population living in cities > 50 000 inhabitants
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Population in selected cities, 1990=100%
80%
85%
90%
95%
100%
105%
110%
115%
120%
125%
130%
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
Lefkosia
Budapest
London
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Proportion of population according to age groups in European capitals, 2004
5%
7%
9%
11%
13%
15%
17%
19%
21%
23%
25%
5% 7% 9% 11% 13% 15% 17% 19% 21% 23% 25%Proportion of total population aged 65 and over
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aged
0-1
4
AnkaraLondon
LisbonRome
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Proportion of population according to age groups
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25%
0-4
5-14
15-24
25-34
35-44
45-54
55-64
65-74
75- London Roma
0% 10% 20%
0-4
5-14
15-24
25-34
35-44
45-54
55-64
65-74
75-
London commuter belt
0% 10% 20%
0-4
5-14
15-24
25-34
35-44
45-54
55-64
65-74
75-
Roma commuter belt
Some indicators related to the ability to attract economic factors
High share of employment in the service sector in north-western and northern Europe
Cities in Greece, Ireland, Hungary, Poland and Romania and Southern Italy could be characterized with a low activity rate.
