Urban Shrinkage and Growth - Multicriteria Assessment for Germany

Processed data used for identifying large and medium shrinking cities in Germany in three 5-year periods: 2003-2008, 2008-2013, 2013-2018. Data was collected and provided by BBSR. Processing data consists of: combining data into one dataset enhacing data with normalized unique identifier based on research country and unique local identifier (arsv_id) simplyfing names for the cities: from long_name to name adding additional inforamtive columns and renaming remaining columns to common form