Data collection template and questionnaire

Employment (at workplace) per sector

	Agriculture	Industry	Trade, tourism, transportation	Public and private services^377
DEA Nordrhein-Westfalen^378	1999: 123.000 2000: 122.900 2001: 123.000	1999: 2.425.500 2000: 2.413.300 2001: 2.367.600	1999: 2.139.500 2000: 2.206.700 2001: 2.231.700	1999: 3.434.600 2000: 3.598.700 2001: 3.674.700
DEA1 DUESSELDORF^379	1999: 27.300 2000: 27.700 2001: 28.100	1999: 688.00 2000: 678.300 2001: 664.400	1999: 685.100 2000: 699.900 2001: 707.400	1999: 1.060.900 2000: 1.103.100 2001: 1.127.000
DEA2 KOELN^380	1999: 22.800 2000: 22.800 2001: 22.600	1999: 495.100 2000: 496.500 2001: 490.100	1999: 514.000 2000: 534.300 2001: 542.200	1999: 926.900 2000: 973.100 2001: 996.700
DEA3 MUENSTER^381	1999: 28.800 2000: 29.000 2001: 29.500	1999: 330.700 2000: 327.700 2001: 318.800	1999: 286.300 2000: 297.400 2001: 300.800	1999: 450.800 2000: 470.000 2001: 477.100
DEA4 DETMOLD^382	1999: 22.900 2000: 22.600 2001: 22.200	1999: 343.00 2000: 345.400 2001: 341.400	1999: 241.600 2000: 248.000 2001: 250.100	1999: 357.100 2000: 371.900 2001: 379.200
DEA5 ARNSBERG^383	1999: 21.200 2000: 20.700 2001: 20.600	1999: 568.700 2000: 565.400 2001: 553.000	1999: 412.600 2000: 427.000 2001: 431.100	1999: 648.900 2000: 680.500 2001: 694.700

Industrial Structure

Branches of industry³⁸⁴

Branch	Employment figures
	DEA Nordrhein-Westfalen^385		DEA1 DUESSEL-DORF^386		DEA2 KOELN^387		DEA3 MUENSTER^388		DEA4 DETMOLD^389		DEA5 ARNSBERG^390
	2000	2001	2000	2001	2000	2001	2000	2001	2000	2001	2000	2001
Food and tobacco	116.536	114.320	29.752	28.588	24.106	23.994	21.516	21.386	21.307	21.240	19.856	19.112
Textile, clothing, leather	53.875	51.626	13.917	14.585	6.767	6.035	16.011	16.202	9.429	9.097	5.319	4.838
Timber	25.060	23.454	2.247	2.200	1.701	1.424	5.623	5.296	11.108	10.023	4.381	4.510
Paper, printing, publishing	90.288	91.607	24.969	25.074	27.236	27.771	7.781	8.166	17.104	17.020	13.198	13.574
Mineral oil processing industry	5.501	4.978	-	568	694	-	-	3.474	-	-	-	-
Chemical industry	134.098	131.813	47.919	46.945	55.345	53.619	15.985	16.363	5.421	5.412	9.429	9-474
Rubber and synthetic material	71.504	72.763	11.068	11.035	22.178	22.769	10.901	10.942	12.600	12.920	14.757	15.097
Glas, ceramic, working of stone and earth	44.251	43.046	10.498	9.703	12.600	12.521	9.336	9.073	5.513	5.240	6.304	6.510
Metal (production, working, ..)	315.472	314.828	110.927	109.409	31.815	30.793	19.987	19.626	26.288	26.943	136.456	128.058
Mechanical engineering	228.314	25.295	59.936	58.318	36.734	36.813	31.250	29.709	41.379	42.234	59.016	58.221
Production of equipment for the production of electricity, office machines, ICT techniques, optical equipment tv,…	158.104	159.879	37.222	37.910	28.452	29.499	11.247	11.153	23.709	25.038	57.474	56.280
Vehicle production	102.750	102.384	25.541	25.036	34.761	35.028	6.204	6.486	9.843	9.998	26.401	25.836
Furniture, jewellery, musical instruments, sports equipment, toys	58.991	57.417	5.2115	4.016	4.540	4.507	8.540	8.745	30.854	30.365	9.843	9.784
Recycling	779	775	335	289	195	214	132	148	-	-	117	-

Research base

Employment in education, higher education and research³⁹¹

2001/02

264.433

Public expenditure on science and research (mio. €)³⁹²

2002

12.807,5

Students at universities³⁹³

Wintersemester	Total number of
1999/2000	492.772
2000/2001	492.701
2001/2002	504.687

Computer equipment in private households (%)³⁹⁴

1999	2000
45,3	47,4

Internet access or online services (%)³⁹⁵

1999	2000
Ca. 12,5	Ca. 20

Telephone equipment of private households (%)³⁹⁶

	1999	2000
ISDN	-	-
Telefons	-	-
Mobil	Ca. 12,5	Ca. 33,3
Answering machines	-	45
Fax/PC fax cart	-	18

Support infrastructure

Infrastructure (categories of streets)³⁹⁷

Category	Motorway (Autobahn)	Road network	Total
Kilometres	2.180	27.448	29.628

Vehicles

1999^398	10.606.152
2000^399	10.741.517
2001^400	10.969.936
2003^401	11.255.936

Doctors and dentists (2000)⁴⁰²

Doctors	62.944
Dentists	12.473

Designation for principal domestic policy support instruments (5 point scale): 3,3

Territorial Policy	3,5
Public sector transfer	0 (negative)
Employment policy	3,3
Technology policy	4,3

Nordrhein-Westfalen⁴⁰³

NRW	Fiscal resources before SHES (in Mio. DM)	Divergence from national average (balance measurement) (= 100)	Contribution / assignment within SHES (in Mio. DM)	Fiscal resources after SHES (in Mio. DM)	Divergence from national average (balance measurement) (= 100)	Supplementary federal grants (in Mio. DM)						Fiscal resources after SHES and Gap-filling grants	Divergence from national average (balance measurement) (= 100)
						Gap-filling grants	Compensations for special political costs	Compensations for special burdens (east Germany)	Transitional grants (west Germany)	Rehabilitational grants Bremen and Saarland	SFH total
1995	78.448	107.0	-3.449	74.999	102.3	0	0	0	0	0	0	74.999	102.3
1996	79.253	106.4	-3.125	76.128	102.2	0	0	0	0	0	0	76.128	102.2
1997	78.854	106.4	-3.059	75.795	102.3	0	0	0	0	0	0	75.795	102.3
1998	82.931	106.3	-3.096	79.835	102.3	0	0	0	0	0	0	79.835	102.3
1999*	86.242	105.3	-2.578	83.664	102.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	83.664	102.1
2000*	88.071	104.6	-2.201	85.871	101.9	0	0	0	0	0	0	85.871	101.9
2001	80.402	101.7	-0.525	79.876	101.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	79.876	101.1

*) preliminary

Impact on ex-ante divergence from national average of support from EU funds (7 point scale): 3,3

		2000-2006 (mio €)
				ERDF		ESF		EAGGF
		Total	EU contribution	EU contribution	%	EU contribution	%	EU contribution	%
Objective 2	North Rhine-Westphalia	3598.623	970.361	823.62	84.88%	146.741	15.12%	-	-

Impact on ex-ante divergence from national average of domestic policies (7 point scale): 4,9

Change in standing of region relative to national average in last five and ten years⁴⁰⁴

	1991	1996	2001
GDP/capita (€)	20.774	22.964	25.411
Population	17.426.200	17.913.700	1.702.700
Employment (persons)	7.970.800	7.801.800	8.397.000
Unemployment (persons)	561.331	826.959	766.277
Unemployment rate	7,9	11,4	9,6

	1995	1997	1999
R+D expenditure (mio €)^405	6729	7101	7792

Estimated effect on regional circumstances of different domestic policies:

	Strongly positive:	Slightly positive	Neutral	Slightly negative	Strongly negative
Territorial Policy		X
Public sector transfer				X
Employment policy		X
Technology policy	X