NUTS - European Union Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (XR-NUTS)
Description
The European Union's Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) provides codes for territorial areas at a number of different levels.
Where no primary identifiers for regional and local government entities are available, then NUTS level 2 and 3 codes, and Local Administrative Unit (LAU 1 and LAU 2 level) codes could be used as a proxy for the primary local government body responsible for that area.
EuroStat currently maintain a cross-walk between different levels, codes and area names for each jurisdiction.
To construct an identifier:
For NUTS 2 and 3 codes, use the prefix (XR-NUTS-) and then the NUTS code provided.
For LAU1 and 2 codes (Local authority/ward), use the prefix (XR-NUTS-), the country prefix and underscore (e.g. UK_) , and then the LAU_NAT_Code provided (e.g. E05004874)
For example: XR-NUTS-UK_E07000105
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