Preparatory Investigation according to the Law to Promote Urban Development (Municipality Data)

Economic, structural and socio-economic description of urban renovation
areas in the Federal Republic in the form of aggregate data at the
level of the individual renovation areas.

Topics: location of renovation area in municipality; building density;
size of renovation area; structure of companies and offices; proportion
of trade, retail companies, service companies and agricultural
companies; employees in the individual types of company; size, number
and property conditions of the land in the renovation area; age of
buildings; building condition and building use; proportion of
residences without toilet and without bath; social structure of
residential population; proportion of foreigners; proportion of young
people and proportion of pensioners; total number of employed;
proportion of workers and proportion of self-employed; number of
one-person households and 5-person households; proportion of renter
households.

For all the above-mentioned topics information about quality and
origin of the variables has additionally been encoded.

Beyond this data information was recorded on whether further
characteristics were surveyed in the initial investigation reports.

The information in these variables is restricted to the dichotomy
´information in the source reports available´ or ´information in the
source reports not available´.

In this sense the following variables were collected: social
interconnection; length of residence; income; amount of rent; trip to
work; desire for replacement residence; size of residence; residential
furnishing; quality of structure; interconnection of the region;
possibilities and conducting planning; readiness of residents and owner
to participate; characterization of traffic situation and city image;
questions of protection of historical monuments.