Monitoring survey

Dealing with challenges and opportunities of demographic change, the DC-Noise approach is based on transnational cooperation and mutual learning. This is applied in many fields and one of them is monitoring. In order for methods, innovative strategies and best practices to be shared effectively among partner regions, the demographic and institutional settings must first be compared between them. Doing that is just one of the functions of monitoring: making systematic comparisons or over time and space, based on indicators.

The results described further (link) are just a first selection of outcomes from a small survey in each region: it shows a certain degree of diversity in regional expressions of population ageing and other related issues such as the (perceived) threat of population shrinkage. However, the survey has a much broader scope and covers the regional institutional settings, availability of all types of data on regional demography, economy, housing market, education, mobility etcetera. Along with these “objective” data, the survey also tries to capture special themes of regional focus and all the partners’ views on the target public and functions of their monitoring system.