The reference guide is designed to serve as a vade-mecum, explaining the background of European regional and urban statistics, including its regional classification NUTS. The structure of the data stored in the public database is comprehensively described.

"The analysis of FDZ BA data is hampered by changing industry classifications. This report describes two methods to deal with this and provides ready-to-use working tools. The first method is the usage of directional correspondence tables. We create several correspondence tables for the...

In der amtlichen Statistik Deutschlands kam es im Berichtszeitraum 2008/2009 zur Anwendung einer neuen Wirtschaftszweigklassifikation. Um die Vergleichbarkeit zu gewährleisten, mussten die Ergebnisse des ifo Konjunkturtests ebenfalls angepasst werden. Für Sachsen und Ostdeutschland zeigen sich...

"The goal of developing a Classification of Occupations 2010 (KldB 2010) was to create an up-to-date and generally accepted classification of occupations for Germany, which on the one hand satisfies the pronounced occupation-specific structuring of the German labor market and on the other hand...

"Mit den Feststellungen, daß sich ++ Berufsbezeichnungen und Ausbildungsberufsbilder einerseits zur Erfassung und Beschreibung von Tätigkeitsinhalten kaum eignen, ++ Arbeitsanalysen andererseits zwar Tätigkeitsinhalte abzu bilden vermögen, aber zu aufwendig sind und ihre Ergebnisse für eine...

"Regionale Arbeitsmärkte sind Ausdruck der begrenzten räumlichen Mobilität der Produktionsfaktoren. In dem durch sie bestimmten Bereich entscheidet es sich, ob ein Marktausgleich erfolgt oder nicht. Ungleichgewichtige Situationen können daher auch nur innerhalb der jeweiligen Marktgrenzen...

"The author develops a new variant of the classification of work. The starting point for this is the organisation for which a function is performed. Here a function is understood in the sense of a position that someone holds, this position being determined in the dimensions of the specialist...

"The goal of developing a new German Classification of Occupations 2010 (KldB 2010) was to create an up-to-date and generally accepted classification of occupations for Germany which on the one hand satisfies the pronounced occupation-specific structuring of the German labour market and on the...

"In many countries fairly large and persistent regional disparities can be observed for a variety of economic indicators. Since these disparities can not be reduced to one single dimension, a classification system is needed to give a parsimonious overview. The article presents a system which is...

This paper explores the statistical properties of house-hold consumption-expenditure budget share distributions —defined as the share of household total expenditure spent for purchasing a specific category of commodities— for a large sample of Italian households in the period 1989-2004. We...