OECD Regions at a Glance 2009
This third edition provides the latest comparable data and trends across regions in OECD countries, including a special focus on the spatial dimension for innovation. It relies on the OECD Regional database, the most comprehensive set of statistics at the sub-national level on demography, economic and labour market performance, education, healthcare, environmental outputs and knowledge-based activities comparable among the OECD countries. This publication provides a dynamic link (StatLink) for each graph and map, which directs the user to a web page where the corresponding data are available in Excel®.
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Regional disparities in specialisation
Regional specialisation varies considerably among OECD countries. Specialisation is measured as the ratio between an industry’s weight in a region and its weight in the country overall. A region is specialised in an industry when the index is above 1 and it is not specialised when the index is below 1. Comparable regional data on employment by industry for 25 OECD countries on a detailed sector classification are available only for the real economy and market services (i.e. the financial sector and industries dominated by non market production such as public administration, education, health and defence are excluded).
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