Benchmark Municipal Business Environment: Dutch City Policy Outcomes 2005-2009

Dutch municipal business environment data from the Big Cities Policy (GSB) period 2005-2009. The dataset likely contains metrics for monitoring policy goals on economic structure, based on covenants between the government and cities. It was produced by the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties and is available under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking municipal economic performance based on policy goals mentioned in the description
• Analyzing trends in urban business environments based on multi-annual development programmes (MDPs)
• Evaluating the outcomes of city-government covenants based on the described measurement framework

Strengths

• Data is tied to a specific policy framework (Big Cities Policy GSB3) with defined measurement periods
• Based on formal agreements (covenants) between government and cities, suggesting structured collection

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties

Collection Method

Monitoring via baseline (2005), intermediate (2007), and final (2010) measurements as per covenants

Time Range

2005-2009 (GSB3 period), with measurements in 2005, 2007, and 2010

Freshness

unknown

Geography

Netherlands, focusing on large cities