7.2. Setting the Study Area

7.2. Setting the Study Area
	Chapter 7. MTA parameters

The setting of the study area should be the first step of any analysis. Setting the basis of the study can be done by answering the following questions:

which spatial extension (area) and for which geographical level?
which division will be the elementary zoning?

As shown on Figure 7.1, these two parameters have to be selected in the two respective pop up lists. The different propositions are internal and come from the a priori implementation.

Figure 7.1. Study area fields

Study Area shows the spatial extension that will be mapped.
Elementary zoning shows the set of elementary units that will be studied.

Figure 7.2 illustrates two possible combinations. The selected area is mapped when the chosen elementary zoning is drawn.

Figure 7.2. Combination of study area and elementary zoning

These two maps were extracted from the "Area and Zoning" tab of the application with following settings:
Study Area Elementary Zoning
Map on the left European Union 15 NUTS 0
Map on the right New member states 12 NUTS 3

	Study Area	Elementary Zoning
Map on the left	European Union 15	NUTS 0
Map on the right	New member states 12	NUTS 3


7.1. An example of multiscalar typologies of regions		7.3. Setting the indicators