A MODEL APPROACH TO MONITORING AND REPORTING PERFORMANCE OF CITIES AT NATIONAL LEVELS

National Governments and statistical offices recognize that it is a major challenge to study each city in a given country to monitor national trends on SDG urban indicators. The aggregation of the city level data and information at sub-national and national level presents a challenge that requires appropriate tools and techniques to ensure comparability and proper systematization. A carefully constructed sample that takes into account sub-regional and city specific characteristics and variances can be used to monitor the dominant pattern in the country’s cities in an aggregated manner.