GaWC Data Set 8

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World Cities: Regional Dimensions

P.J. Taylor, D.R.F. Walker and M. Hoyler

These data describe the distribution of offices for 46 'global' advanced producer service firms over world cities in the three main 'globalization arenas': Europe, Pacific Asia, and North America. Global firms are defined by having offices in at least 15 different cities. World cities/cities showing evidence of world city formation are from the GaWC inventory of world cities (see GaWC Research Bulletin 6). Service values for a firm in a city are given as 3, 2, 1 or 0 as defined in Data Set 4.

These data are an experimental set of data derived from Data Set 4 (43 of the firms qualify as global) but with three additional law firms added which do not have London offices. For publications that make use of these data, see GaWC Research Bulletin 16 and GaWC Research Bulletin 21.

Dataset 8.1: European world cities - office distribution of global service firms: This is a 53 x 46 data matrix whose cells record office geographies of 46 global service firms across 53 European cities (22 world cities and 31 cities showing evidence of world city formation).
Dataset 8.2: Pacific Rim world cities - office distribution of global service firms: This is a 28 x 46 data matrix whose cells record office geographies of 46 global service firms across 28 Pacific Rim cities (17 world cities and 11 cities showing evidence of world city formation).
Dataset 8.3: North American world cities - office distribution of global service firms: This is a 25 x 46 data matrix whose cells record office geographies of 46 global service firms across 25 North American world cities (14 world cities and 11 cities showing evidence of world city formation). 

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: The data were created by P.J. Taylor, D.R.F. Walker and M. Hoyler as part of the project "The Regional Dimension in World City Network Formation" and are based on primary data collected by J.V. Beaverstock, R.G. Smith and P.J. Taylor (ESRC project "The Geographical Scope of London as a World City" (R000222050)). They constitute Data Set 8 of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Research Network (http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/) publication of inter-city data.