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Eurostat - Regions: Statistical yearbook 2006

Introduction

“Regions: Statistical yearbook 2006” shows many aspects of this regional data and suggests in the various chapters some of the analyses which can be made with them.

Description

The yearbook covers the 254 regions of the 25 EU Member States, defined by level 2 of the Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS 2003), and the 14 statistical regions in the candidate countries Bulgaria and Romania. It contains chapters on:

population,
GDP,
household accounts,
labour market,
labour productivity,
urban statistics,
science,
technology and innovation,
business,
health,
transport,
agriculture,
labour productivity.

In each chapter, regional distributions are highlighted by colour maps and graphs which are then evaluated by expert authors in text commentaries.

The reader is invited to also consult the web version of the “Portraits of the Regions”, which give regional profiles of all individual regions across Europe.

Conclusions

The statistical yearbook does not provide for clear cut conclusions; it provides data that can be used by practitioners. The following can be highlighted, however:

The population chapter this year focuses on old and young dependency ratios in the coming decades, highlighting the drastic changes of society Europeans will have to cope with.
The chapter on regional GDP centres its attention on growth rates between 1999 and 2003, giving interesting insights into regional differences.
The Urban Audit chapter concentrates on the competitiveness of cities, analysing various facets of benchmarking cities that compete against each other.
The chapter on the Structural Business Survey focuses on specialised regions in different industrial and service activities. This highlights the heterogeneity of European regions in terms of the production process and skills.

Contact info

Eurostat
Press Centre, tel. +352 4301 33444

Publication date

05/10/2006

Links

Eurostat Download “Regions: Statistical yearbook”Visit the “Portraits of the Regions” website

Document type

research

Themes

Urban Policy

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