Retail Trade Research in Groningen Municipality by District, 2019

2019 research into retail trade within the municipality of Groningen, broken down by district. The dataset was published by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties) and is available under a CC-BY-4.0 license. It examines the role of supermarkets in district, neighbourhood, and community centres.

Use Cases

• Analyze the distribution and importance of supermarkets based on the description of their role in district centres.
• Assess opportunities for functional repurposing of retail spaces based on the described decrease in non-daily shops.
• Model the relationship between supermarket accessibility and shopping area vitality based on described features like parking and access.

Strengths

• Focuses on a specific municipality (Groningen) and year (2019), providing clear geographic and temporal scope.
• Published by a national government ministry, suggesting an authoritative source.
• Available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is provided only in PDF format, which may hinder direct computational analysis.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties

Collection Method

Research study, likely based on municipal or commercial surveys.

Time Range

2019

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

Municipality of Groningen, Netherlands, by district.