Municipalities in Greece in 2011

Description

Municipality boundaries and socioeconomic variables aggregated to the new local authority geography (Programme Kallikratis).

Usage

data(GR.Municipalities)

Format

A data frame with 325 observations on the following 5 variables.

OBJECTID

a numeric vector of area IDs

X

a numeric vector of x coordinates

Y

a numeric vector of y coordinates

Name

a character vector of municipality names (in greeklish)

CodeELSTAT

a character vector of municipality codes to link with data from the Hellenic Statistical Authority (EL.STAT.)

PopM01

a numeric vector of the total population for males in 2001 (Census)

PopF01

a numeric vector of the total population for females in 2001 (Census)

PopTot01

a numeric vector of the total population in 2001 (Census)

UnemrM01

a numeric vector of unemployment rate for males in 2001 (Census)

UnemrF01

a numeric vector of unemployment rate for females in 2001 (Census)

UnemrT01

a numeric vector of total unemployment rate in 2001 (Census)

PrSect01

a numeric vector of the proportion of economically active working in the primary financial sector (mainly agriculture; fishery; and forestry in 2001 (Census))

Foreig01

a numeric vector of proportion of people who do not have the Greek citizenship in 2001 (Census)

Income01

a numeric vector of mean recorded household income (in Euros) earned in 2001 and declared in 2002 tax forms

Details

The X,Y coordinates refer to the geometric centroids of the new 325 Municipalities in Greece (Programme Kallikratis) in 2011. The boundary data of the original shapefile have been simplified to reduce its detail and size. The polygon referring to Mount Athos has been removed as there is no data available for this politically autonomous area of Greece.

Source

The shapefile of the corresponding polygons is available from the Hellenic Statistical Authority (EL.STAT.) at http://www.statistics.gr/el/digital-cartographical-data. The population, employment, citizenship and employment sector data is available from the Hellenic Statistical Authority (EL.STAT.) at http://www.statistics.gr/en/home but were aggregated to the new municipalities by the author. The income data are available from the General Secretariat of Information Systems in Greece at http://www.gsis.gr/ at the postcode level of geography and were aggregated to the new municipalities by the author.

References

Kalogirou, S., and Hatzichristos, T. (2007). A spatial modelling framework for income estimation. Spatial Economic Analysis, 2(3), 297-316.

Kalogirou, S. (2010). Spatial inequalities in income and post-graduate educational attainment in Greece. Journal of Maps, 6(1), 393-400.

Kalogirou, S. (2013). Testing geographically weighted multicollinearity diagnostics, GISRUK 2013, Department of Geography and Planning, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, 3-5 April 2013. http://gisc.gr/docs/sk_papers/2_7_Kalogirou_2013.pdf

Examples

data(GR.Municipalities)
boxplot(GR.Municipalities@data$Income01)
hist(GR.Municipalities@data$PrSect01)

Results