Quality of life in European
cities
By Lewis Dijkstra
Deputy Head of Unit
Policy Development and Economic Analysis Unit,
DG Regional and Urban Policy
European Commission
Regional &
Urban Policy
Strength of the city survey
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Unique source of information
Media coverage is very high
Underexploited resource
Coordination with other surveys and actors is low
Some methodological issues with regard to
sampling and questions
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Urban Policy
Current set up
• Managed by the Urban Unit
• Contracted out through the Eurobarometer
framework contract
• Every three years
• Covers around 79 cities in EU, NO, CH, IS, TR
• Questions decided by DG COMM/REGIO with
sometimes last minute changes
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Urban Policy
New set up
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Managed by B1, Economic analysis unit
Open Call for tender
Every three years
Covers at least the same cities
Always at the greater city level if there is one
Questions determined a year ahead of time by
REGIO/ESTAT/NUACs
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Urban Policy
Timeline
• May 2017 Launch of online EU survey to get
feedback on the questions from
• NUACs
• ESTAT
• Commission colleagues with an interest in city
level indicators
• Other urban level actors? Eurocities…
• Finalisation of the questionnaire Oct 2017
• Survey conducted Oct 2018
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Urban Policy
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Regional &
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Regional &
Urban Policy
Regional &
Urban Policy
Regional &
Urban Policy