Sevilla

Sub City Districts (SCD): Sevilla

Description

Information at the sub-city level is essential for the Urban Audit. Sub-city districts (labelled as SCD) constitute a subdivision of the city that, in the case of Spain, are formed by aggregation of census sections, on condition that each SCD has between 5,000 and 40,000 inhabitants. It consists of a division similar to that of districts, but given that many of them do not comply with said condition, it is necessary to divide or merge them.

One important factor has been the availability of statistical data for the SCD defined. In many countries, some kind of subdivision of cities existed already, but the existing units did not comply completely with the requirements of the Urban Audit. It was not always possible to find names for the artificial SCD. One additional approach to overcome some of the problems in defining SCD was to introduce two levels. SCD level 1 corresponds to established city districts as they are defined in several big cities, while SCD level 2 follows the criteria mentioned above. The advantage with having 2 levels is that if statistical data are scarce at SCD level 2, there is more data available at SCD level 1 and at the end there is some differentiation of the city for most variables.

This publication only consider the SCD level to cities with more than 250,000 inhabitants. The proposal of divisions have been made by the INE with the collaboration of each municipality affected.