Comparing Regions

The project has three goals: 1) establishment of a data collection on population and employment in postwar Western Europe at the sub-national level; 2) establishment of proper infrastructure for computer cartography (digitized European maps at the subnational level since the turn of the century, establishment of a classification of regions); 3) provision of proper software, based on the NSDstat package, for explorative data analysis and thematic mapping). The electronic atlas module on population and employment, planned for 2002, integrates the three components. Data col-lection is split across all three partners; the regional classification is the duty of Eurodata, digitizing and software developement is the sole duty of NSD). It is expected that additional modules can be initiated afterwards in a far extended consortium of institutes.