Goettingen: Employment data for Goettingen and Germany 2008-2017
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This dataset contains the employees in 15 economic sections (German Classification of Economic Activities WZ2008) for the city Goettingen and Germany regarding the years 2008-2017 (date: 30 June each year).

1	data("Goettingen")

A data frame with 16 observations on the following 22 variables.

WZ2008_Code: a factor containing the code of the industry (15 economic sections from the German Classification of Economic Activities WZ2008 + total employees), in German language
WZ2008_Name: a factor containing the name of the industry (15 economic sections from the German Classification of Economic Activities WZ2008 + total employees), in German language
Goettingen2008: industry employees in the city of Goettingen 2008
Goettingen2009: industry employees in the city of Goettingen 2009
Goettingen2010: industry employees in the city of Goettingen 2010
Goettingen2011: industry employees in the city of Goettingen 2011
Goettingen2012: industry employees in the city of Goettingen 2012
Goettingen2013: industry employees in the city of Goettingen 2013
Goettingen2014: industry employees in the city of Goettingen 2014
Goettingen2015: industry employees in the city of Goettingen 2015
Goettingen2016: industry employees in the city of Goettingen 2016
Goettingen2017: industry employees in the city of Goettingen 2017
BRD2008: industry employees in Germany 2008
BRD2009: industry employees in Germany 2009
BRD2010: industry employees in Germany 2010
BRD2011: industry employees in Germany 2011
BRD2012: industry employees in Germany 2012
BRD2013: industry employees in Germany 2013
BRD2014: industry employees in Germany 2014
BRD2015: industry employees in Germany 2015
BRD2016: industry employees in Germany 2016
BRD2017: industry employees in Germany 2017

Bundesagentur fuer Arbeit (2018): “Beschaeftigungsstatistik, Beschaeftigte nach Wirtschaftszweigen (WZ 2008) (Zeitreihe Quartalszahlen) in Deutschland”. https://statistik.arbeitsagentur.de/DE/Navigation/Statistiken/Fachstatistiken/Beschaeftigung/Beschaeftigung-Nav.html (accessed October 10, 2018). Own postprocessing (filtering and aggregation).

Stadt Goettingen - Referat Statistik und Wahlen (2008): “Stadt Goettingen: Beschaeftigte nach Wirtschaftsbereichen und Wirtschaftsabschnitten 1980 bis 2018. Table: IS 071.20”. https://duva-stg-extern.kdgoe.de/Informationsportal/Dateien/071.20-2018.pdf (accessed November 21, 2019).

Federal Statistical Office Germany (2008): “Classification of Economic Activities, Edition 2008 (WZ 2008)”. https://www.klassifikationsserver.de/klassService/jsp/common/url.jsf?variant=wz2008&lang=EN (accessed June 07, 2019).

data(Goettingen)

# Location quotients for Goettingen 2017:
locq (Goettingen$Goettingen2017[2:16], Goettingen$Goettingen2017[1], 
Goettingen$BRD2017[2:16], Goettingen$BRD2017[1])

# Gini coefficient of regional specialization 2017:
gini.spec(Goettingen$Goettingen2017[2:16], Goettingen$BRD2017[2:16])

# Krugman coefficient of regional specialization 2017:
krugman.spec(Goettingen$Goettingen2017[2:16], Goettingen$BRD2017[2:16])