euro_example: NUTS-2 Level Geodata and Compositional Data for Europe
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NUTS-2 Level Geodata and Compositional Data for Europe

Description

A simple-features dataframe containing the NUTS-2 level polygons of European regions along with regional compositional data on education and labor-force.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 312 rows and 9 variables:

id: NUTS-2 code.
name: Name of NUTS-2 region.
ed_0to2: Share of population with highest attained education "lower secondary or less".
ed_3to4: Share of population with highest attained education "upper secondary".
ed_5to8: Share of population with highest attained education "tertiary".
lf_pri: Share of labor-force in primary sector.
lf_sec: Share of labor-force in secondary sector.
lf_ter: Share of labor-force in tertiary sector.
geometry: Polygon outlines for regions in sf package format.

Details

Variables starting with "ed" refer to the relative share of population ages 25 to 64 by educational attainment in the European NUTS-2 regions 2016.

Variables starting with "lf" refer to the relative share of workers by labor-force sector in the European NUTS-2 regions 2016. The original NACE (rev. 2) codes have been recoded into the three sectors "primary" (A), "secondary" (B-E & F) and "tertiary" (all other NACE codes).