The Structuring of Statistical Information at a Micro-Zone Level

The decision making process, regardless of the environment in which it functions, depends, first of all, on the information used. Information quality is given by two characteristics: information representativeness, and its capacity to capture the variety of objective reality. These two characteristics can function simultaneously only when the information is structured best, according to certain criteria. This structuring actually refers to organizing the information into groups of administrative territorial micro-units, that is, into micro-zones. The globalization process can and must take into consideration the specificity of each territorial unit, as to avoid turning into a homogenization process. If this process wants to take account of the economic and social diversity, one must be thoroughly acquainted with the socio-economic characteristics of administrative territorial sub-units