[open-economics] City Data from Eurostat - Living Labs Global Award

Tue Jan 17 13:45:52 UTC 2012

Dear list,

I have started building a dataset based on the Eurostat regional
statistics, which features city and regional data on population,
labour markets, education and health.
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/publications/regional_yearbook

Eurostat publishes these characteristics separately - which makes it
impossible to compare different economic and social indicators, more
detailed regional levels like NUTS3 (featuring nearly 400 European
cities) are not matched with other more aggregate levels (e.g. NUTS1).
Once I have compiled the dataset, it can be used on basis of the
ProgressVote - where users can choose weights for characteristics they
find most important and thus build an index for their ideal city.

It would be also interesting to do some regression analysis on what
drives cities. Furthermore, it would be a great contribution to our
Datahub!

If anyone of you is working on spatial econometrics or is interested
in city economics or in programming based on this data, please let me
know.
We could also prepare a submission for the Living Labs Global Award
(http://www.llga.org/), which is looking for an app that presents a
particular solution for a city.

Best,

Velichka