TY - JOUR
T1 - Local Government Performance Indicators in Europe: an Exploration
AU - Hoogenboezem, J.A.
PY - 2004/1/1
Y1 - 2004/1/1
N2 - Local governments need reliable information about the cities they are governing. However, an analysis of the availability of basic descriptive data (population data, information on household composition, unemployment, poverty, condition of the housing stock, homelessness, recorded crime and composition and size of local municipal income) in 55 European cities makes clear that these data are often not available because they have neither been collected nor disseminated. On average, 30 percent of simple local performance indicators is missing. National statistical traditions may help explaining the lack of data-gathering.
AB - Local governments need reliable information about the cities they are governing. However, an analysis of the availability of basic descriptive data (population data, information on household composition, unemployment, poverty, condition of the housing stock, homelessness, recorded crime and composition and size of local municipal income) in 55 European cities makes clear that these data are often not available because they have neither been collected nor disseminated. On average, 30 percent of simple local performance indicators is missing. National statistical traditions may help explaining the lack of data-gathering.
U2 - 10.1177/0020852304041230
DO - 10.1177/0020852304041230
M3 - Article
SN - 0020-8523
VL - 70
SP - 51
EP - 64
JO - International Review of Administrative Sciences
JF - International Review of Administrative Sciences
ER -