The indicators for the Catalyse Toolkit
The elaboration of a global solution like Territorial Information Community System (TICS) requires the provision of contextual indicators. They will allow, on the one hand, putting in perspective the information coming from the guide but also, on the other hand, to lightning the guide of data collection when the available statistics directly suggest the information to be collected.
Within the framework of WP6i (caENTI), the questions from the guide have thus been related with a series of indicators. The existence and accessibility of these indicators should be debated for various spatial scales in order to satisfy the requirements fixed by the action territories of the observatories working at various levels.
The objective is to bring to the actors contextual data which legibility could be increased by the use of cartography (cartographic software open source - a solution based on Philcarto was suggested). Included in the Catalyse Toolkit and putted on line, the indicators will lead to an integrated processing of information.
Search for relevant indicators
The search for relevant territorial indicators has been carried out with the collaboration of field actors. Those allowed releasing territorial indicators, thanks to the correspondence between the questions from the guide and the territorialized data, territorial indicators. Territorial indicators give information about the family structure, the population evolution, the health indicators, the ratio of the working population and of the unemployed persons, etc.
The available data as a whole will avoid collecting information using the guide when those are already available.
Data accessibility
The search for data able to supply the contextual indicators has been undertaken on Internet in order to locate the main statistical institutes having these data available for the European Union. The investigations have also been implemented for the data accessibility and for their cost.
The main suppliers of statistical data are the national institutes. Nevertheless, the statistical calculations and the degree of accuracy appreciably differ according to the country. As regards an organization like Eurostat, it collects the national data by standardizing their accessibility, but information rarely remains on scales (NUTS3) in adequacy with the request of the protagonists’ at the local level.
Relevant territories and cartography
The relevant territory for the spatial representation of these indicators strongly depends on the type of actor and its geographic cover. In all the cases, it seems interesting to have data for the statistical entities as fine as possible.
Cartography seems a priori the best way of representation for most of the indicators. However, the latest is not adapted in some cases depending on the number of entities, the considered scale, or the type of indicators. Therefore, a graph or tabulation would be more appropriate to present the statistics.
Average revenue by inhabitant in 2004 |
Activity rate by town in 2005 (%) |
Prospect
An important research activity has still to be undertaken to specify the accuracy degree of the geo data of the various European countries.
Nevertheless, the main part of the work, that still has to be provided, aims to integrate the indicators in the toolkit of territorial intelligence whilst ensuring the link with the synthesis of the undertaken research activities within the WP4.
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More information
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