DELINEATING FUNCTIONAL AREAS IN ALL TERRITORIES.

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Executive summary
Chapter 1.  Why delineate functional areas in all territories?
	Functional and administrative geographies
	Better data for all territories: A statistical perspective
	Better policy design, delivery and evaluation for all territories
	Notes
	References
Chapter 2.  Main approaches and challenges in defining functional areas
	Core-flow-based versus multidirectional-flow-based
	Geographic building blocks
		Data
		Additional sources of commuting flow data
		The emergence of new mobility flow data
	Approaches without mobility flow data
	Specifications and sensitivity
	Challenges in analysing and integrating outputs
		The “functionality” challenge
		Isolated areas and very small administrative units
		Coherence with pre-existing geographic classifications
		Planning for historical revisions
	Notes
	References
Chapter 3.  The current experience of OECD countries
	Survey of OECD countries
	Examples of policy application in OECD countries
	Detailed country examples of functional areas
		Canada
		United Kingdom
		France
		Italy
		Dutch-German-Belgian cross-border functional areas
		Estonia: Mobile positioning data for delineation of functional areas
	Notes
	References
Chapter 4.  Methodological guidelines to define functional areas
	A multidirectional-flow and bottom-up iterative process
	The importance of parameter selection
		Coherence with other existing statistical areas
		Post-processing
	Transparency through open source
	Consultation or user feedback
	Notes
	References
Chapter 5.  Applying existing methods to countries without established functional areas
	Canada
	United States
	Mexico
	Korea
	Estonia
	Note
	References
Conclusion
	Annex A. Country examples: EU country delineations of functional areas
	Annex B. Methodological algorithms
	Distances from success
	Search strength
		Annex C. LabourMarketAreas – R package
	An example of an LMA delineation process
	Notes
		Annex D. Self-contained labour areas (SLA-ZTA) – Python package
		Annex E. Sensitivity of functional areas to parameter specification
Annex A. Country examples: EU country delineations of functional areas
Annex B. Methodological algorithms
Annex C. LabourMarketAreas – R package
Annex D. Self-contained labour areas (SLA-ZTA) – Python package
Annex E. Sensitivity of functional areas to parameter specification