Eurostat regional yearbook, 2010.

 

This chapter presents a new typology of predominantly rural, intermediate and predominantly urban regions based on a variation of the OECD methodology. The aim of this new typology is to provide a consistent basis for the description of predominantly rural, intermediate and predominantly urban regions in all Commission communications, reports and publications. This typology has been developed jointly by the following four different Directorates-General within the European Commission over the past two years: the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development, Eurostat, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the Directorate-General for Regional Policy.