and rural areas in Belgium according to the Eurostat revised definition Pierre Jamagne GIS unit Statistics Belgium developed jointly by EC DG Agri and Rural development JRC DG ID: 532264
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Poster : Urban and rural areas in Belgium according to the Eurostat revised definition (*)
Pierre JamagneGIS unitStatistics Belgium
(*) : developed jointly by EC DG Agri and Rural development, JRC, DG Regio and Eurostat
EFGS 2015 Vienna
ConferenceSlide2
1.Why did we
map urban and rural areas?2.The urban-rural typology currently used at Statistics
Belgium3.The revised EU urban-rural typology applied
to
Belgium
4
.
Comments
and ConclusionsSlide3
1.Why did we map
urban and rural areas?Slide4
Earlier this year, in view
of the DIMESA meeting of May 2015, the GIS unit was asked by the environmental statistics department to investigate the urban-rural typology used at Statistics
Belgium.DIMESA (directors meeting on regional, spatial, environment statistics and accounts) is in charge of revising
the NUTS
regulation
by
introducing
territorial typologies
into
it
(maritime,
metropolitan
,
urban
-rural,
coastal
,
functional
).
So
we
decided
to
investigate
the situation and to
eventually
make
a
proposal
for the
typologySlide5
2.The urban-rural typology currently
used at Statistics BelgiumSlide6
The typology currently used at
Statistics Belgium dates from 1991 and is used to classify LAU2 units into urban and rural communes. It is based
on 3 indicators : Share of the male population employed in the agricultural sector versus the occupied active population in the commune Share of the people commuting
versus the
occupied
active population living in the commune
Share
of the population
working
in the
trade
sector
versus the
occupied
active population living
in the commune Slide7
33 / 589 communes
were classified as rural.The population of these 33 communes makes
the rural population in Belgium since 1991.
These
combined
indicators
led
to the
following
map
Slide8
3. The revised Eurostat urban-rural typology
applied to BelgiumSlide9
We decided to test the revised urban
-rural typology as defined in the Eurostat regional yearbook 2010 on the 2011 population 1 km² grid we had produced for the GEOSTAT project and we got the following
map ……Slide10Slide11
4.
Comments and Conclusions Slide12
This
map shows urban and rural areas independantly of administrative units The next step will be to classify communes into rural communes and
urban communesA commune can have rural as well as urban areas on its own territoryA commune
can
have rural population as
well
as
urban
population living on
its
own
territory
.
The
Belgian
typology
is
based
on
functional
characteristics
while
the EU
revised
definition
is
based
on population
density
.Slide13
The
results obtained with the EU revised definition gives a more satisfactory picture of rural and urban areas in BelgiumThe
revised definition allows to have comparable results throughout the EU while before each
country
had
its
own
definition
The
exercise
is
easily
reproductible
.Slide14
Thank you for your attention
Questions?