AGENDA

9h00-9h30 Opening session: Modernising statistical systems: opportunities for regions and cities

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5 NOVEMBER 2018
OECD Conference Centre

Representatives from National Statistical Offices and other agencies responsible for statistics or regional development discussed the role of the modernisation of statistical systems for better evidence on regions and cities. The discussions took place in a workshop held at the OECD Headquarters on 5 November 2018, within the activities of the OECD Working Party on Territorial Indicators. The workshop focused on four pathfinder themes of relevance within the field of regional development policy, such as access to services, housing statistics, functional areas, and business clusters.

MATERIALS

 Detailed Agenda (PDF version)

 Concept note (PDF version)

 Workshop Proceedings (PDF version)

Welcome: Alessandro Alasia, Statistics Canada and Rudiger Ahrend, OECD.

Opening presentation: The importance of data innovation for analysis on cities - Peter Elmlund, Ax:son Jonson Foundation

9h30-11h00 Session 1: Housing indicators in regions and cities: affordability, quality, characteristics

SPEAKERS:

• Measuring local rent prices using linked big data - Nigel Henretty, ONS, United Kingdom.

• Housing policy issues and relevance of Tax Authority data to produce house prices statistics in Portugal - Francisco Vala, INE, Portugal & Jorge Malheiros, CEG-IGOT-University of Lisbon.

• Open data on buildings with satellite imagery processing - Jubal Harpster, Bing Maps Team, Microsoft.

• Visualisation and mapping of building open data - Mikel Maron, Mapbox.

11h15-13h00 Session 2: Functional areas in all territories: data sources and methods

 SPEAKERS:

• Multisource data for Labour Market Areas - Luisa Franconi, Istat.

• Defining functional areas in Canada through open source packages - Peter Murphy, Statistics Canada.

• Using mobile phone data to understand functional geographies - Johan van der Valk, Statistics Netherlands.

• The functional urban area of Prague: testing consistency with mobile phone data - Jiří Čtyroký, Prague Institute of Planning and Development, Czech Republic.

14h15-16h00 Session 3: Measuring access to services: new data and approaches

SPEAKERS:

• Access to services by settlement size in Europe - Lewis Dijkstra, European Commission.

• Using Google data to measure access to amenities in cities - Talia Kaufmann, OECD.

• Measuring walkable neighbourhoods using new open data - Claudia Baranzelli, EC Joint Research Centre.

• Measuring access to services in French regions - David Levy, INSEE.

• Access to services, recent innovations in the Netherlands - Wim Vosselman, Statistics Netherlands.

16h20-17h45 Session 4: Regional competitiveness and business clusters

SPEAKERS:

• Regional competitiveness and clusters - Christian Ketels, BCG Henderson Institute.

• Business Clusters: the experience of Mexico - Oscar Gasca Brito, INEGI, Mexico.

• Clusters and regional development: a practitioner perspective - Ksenia Shadrina, US Department of Commerce

Closing: Alessandro Alasia, Statistics Canada and Paolo Veneri, OECD.