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Region boundaries, admninistrative boundaries - NUTS-1 level





General information

There is one RRG NUTS-1 Region Boundary layer available, representing the NUTS-1 regions as defined by Eurostat in correspondence with the national governments. The size of the regions varies considerably depending on the member state. Regional information, such as socio-economic or socio-demographic data from Eurostat´ s REGIO database, or from any other statistic, can be linked to the regions via the unique NUTS-1 region code. The main features of the NUTS1 coverage are:

Layer name: NUTS1
Feature classes: Arcs, polygons (*.AAT, *.PAT)
No of arc features:
No of polygon features:
User attributes associated with AAT: 1
User attributes associated with PAT: 4



Detailed description of the arc attribute table

The AAT of the NUTS1 coverage contains only one user-defined attribute. The classification of the BOUNDARY attribute can be used to select and draw different types of boundaries, if required. Since the NUTS system is a hierarchical system, all higher level boundaries represent at the same time also a lower level boundary. For example, a country boundary is at the same time always a NUTS-1 region boundary.

Attribute Width Output Type Dec. Contents
BOUNDARY 4 4 I --- Boundary classification
1 = Shores
2 = Country boundary
3 = NUTS-1 region boundary





Detailed description of the polygon attribute table

The PAT of the NUTS1 coverage contains the following user-defined attributes:

Attribute Width Output Type Dec. Contents
COUNTRY 4 6 C --- ISO country code
NUTS1_CODE 4 4 C --- NUTS-1 region code
NUTS1_NAME 25 25 C --- Name of NUTS-1 region
NUTS1TOTAREA 8 18 F 6 Total area of NUTS-1 region (in sqkm)


The attributes COUNTRY and NUTS1_CODE represent the official ISO codes as defined and used by Eurostat for the respective NUTS levels. These codes can be used both to join statistical data to the layer and to aggregate NUTS-1 regions to higher levels.

NUTS1_NAME gives the official NUTS-1 region name, whereas NUTS1TOTAREA represents the total NUTS-1 region area. This attribute should not be confused with the ArcInfo internal area attribute, which represents the area of the individual polygon in question. In contrast, NUTS1TOTAREA represents the total region area, i.e. if the region consists of several polygons, the areas of all polygons are summed up in this attribute.



 More on this topic
Related documents:ISO Country Codes



RRG GIS Database contents:

General information
Transport networks
Region boundaries, admninistrative boundaries

Introduction to boundary layers
Country boundaries (NUTS-0 level)
NUTS-1 level
NUTS-2 level
NUTS-3 level
INTERREG IIIB (2000-2006) Cooperation Areas
National capital cities
NUTS-1 centroids
NUTS-2 centroids
Regional cities (NUTS-3 centroids)

Geography
Interaction data and regional data
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