This paper presents an exercise in the definition of cities from clear and explicit quantitative criteria. The city concept is linked to the local political level, so in this sense we can talk about “administrative cities”, since they are formed by one municipality, or a group of them that...

This paper presents an evaluation, from the user point of view, of the regular population grid, with 1 km2 resolution, that the Spanish National Statistical Institute (INE), has released as a product from the last Population and Dwellings Census 2011. This way of disseminating population data is...

This paper makes a proposal for a taxonomy of boundary changes in Spanish municipalities along time. The different types of changes are organized in a hierarchy, as well as represented in a homogeneous manner, independently of the number of municipalities involved and of the changes suffered....

This paper presents Disability Free Life Expectancy (DFLE) at the national level for the years 2004, 2005 y 2006, and at the regional level (NUTS 2) by pooling the information of these three years from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) survey. This is the...

El objetivo del trabajo es determinar la existencia y magnitud de las economías de escala, internas y externas, y los márgenes entre precio y coste marginal en la industria española, durante el período 1964- 1989. Los resultados obtenidos para 13 de los 14 sectores industriales de NACE-CLIO...

This is a user's guide for the DYNFAC package. A program written in GAUSS toestimate, by maximum likelihood in the time domain, DYNamic FACtor analytic modelswith one common factor (single-index models), by means of the Kalman filter.The underlying theory and methods are briefly explained. Esta...