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still have to go through a process of economic transition. In order to explore
trends and conditions in regions with a rather similar share of employment in
agriculture, a typology of regions derived from the share of agriculture in total
employment has been designed. On the whole, in previous studies on regional
employment, population and economic dynamics, regions which reflect the
size of a labour market area appeared to be useful territorial units for such a
typology (OECD
1996
; Terluin and Post
2000
; Bollman et al.
2005)
. Labour
market areas are areas where most of the people living there, also work there.
However, labour market areas do not always coincide with administrative
regions for which data are collected. In order to approximate regions which
reflect the size of a labour market area, in previous studies of regional economic
dynamics, often a mix of NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions was applied. The reason for
using such a mix is that the size of the administrative NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions
rather varies among countries. Here again, as in the case of the typology of rural
and urban regions, the use of FADN data forces us to design a typology at a higher
aggregated regional level. We applied a deductive method by setting - based
on expert knowledge - thresholds for five types: FADN regions with a share of
agriculture in total employment of <3%; 3-8%; 8-15%; 15-25% and >25%,
respectively (Fig.
8.2
).
Fig. 8.2
Share of agriculture in total employment in FADN regions in the EU15, 2003 (%)
(Own calculations based on Eurostat, Luxembourg)
