Numbeo Explained

Numbeo.com
Foundation:April 2009
Founder:Mladen Adamović
Type:Crowd-sourced online database of cost of living, real property prices, and quality of life statistics
Country Of Origin:Serbia
Registration:Optional
Language:Multilingual
Owner:NUMBEO DOO Beograd-Palilula
Launch Date:April 2009

Numbeo is a Serbian crowd-sourced online database of perceived consumer prices, real property prices, and quality of life metrics. The website was founded in April 2009 by former Google employee Mladen Adamović,[1] [2] to enable users to share and compare information about the cost of living between countries and cities.[3] Since 2012, the website has been operated by NUMBEO DOO Beograd-Palilula, a Serbian private limited company run by Adamović.[4] [5] According to Adamović, the website earns money through advertising and the sale of subscriptions to its API.[6]

Numbeo's crowd-sourced data can be inserted or altered by anyone accessing the website, and is not peer-reviewed.[7] [8] [9] Data is also manually gathered by the operator, from sources such as company and governmental websites,[10] [11] [12] which is done in half-year intervals;[13] it is then combined with user-generated data by giving it extra weight in the final score calculation, according to the company.[14] As of 2017, it was the largest database of user generated data about cities in the world.[15] As of 2020, this possibly applied to (user generated) data on housing prices as well.[16] The quality of life index is a combination of eight sub-indexes: purchasing power, safety, healthcare, cost of living, property price to income ratio, traffic commute time, pollution, and climate.[17] [18]

The website's "Crime Index", intended to serve as an overall crime level estimate, is compiled from answers to user surveys, which have been processed by a Java-programmed backend to produce country- or city-level ratings on a 100-point scale, with higher values indicating worse crime. There is also a "Safety Index", with higher scores indicating a safer city.[19] Numbeo's data points on crime have been criticized by academics[20] and by the media as unreliable and, at times, misleading.

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  1. Cost of Living Information Website, Numbeo.com, Announces New Software Release which Contains Information for More than 300 Cities . https://web.archive.org/web/20091129131435/http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/11/prweb3143234.htm . dead . 29 November 2009 . 2023-05-19 . PRWeb . Cision Ltd..
  2. Web site: 2021-03-28 . Cene nekretnina u Beogradu u vrhu liste evropskih gradova . Real estate prices in Belgrade top the list of European cities . 2023-05-19 . . Tanjug.
  3. Web site: Sources for cost of livings reports and comparisons . ICAEW. The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. London. https://web.archive.org/web/20190918173455/https://www.icaew.com/library/subject-gateways/human-resources/cost-of-living-comparisons . 18 September 2019.
  4. Web site: Претрага привредних друштава . Company search . 2023-05-20 . Business Registers Agency (Serbia) . sr . 20853514.
  5. Web site: About This Website - Numbeo.com. www.numbeo.com.
  6. Web site: Adamović . Mladen . How does Numbeo.com make money? How successful is it? . 2023-05-21 . Quora . en.
  7. Book: Iacobucci . Dawn . Continuing to Broaden the Marketing Concept . 17 September 2020 . . 978-1-78754-824-4 . 253 . en.
  8. Book: Guzman . Martin . Toward a Just Society: Joseph Stiglitz and Twenty-First Century Economics . 28 August 2018 . . 978-0-231-54680-5 . 92 . en.
  9. Web site: Harare has poor healthcare and political violence, but property is relatively inexpensive . propertyobserver.com.au . 29 August 2012 . Alistair . Walsh . https://web.archive.org/web/20170918064737/https://www.propertyobserver.com.au/finding/location/expat-and-international/18102-harare-has-poor-healthcare-and-political-violence-but-property-is-relatively-inexpensive.html. live . 18 September 2017 . Serbian-run website Numbeo lists the inner-city apartment prices in Harare at $1,000 a square metre. The numbers are based on user contributed figures and should be taken with a hefty pinch of salt..
  10. Web site: Fox . David . 2022-01-28 . Bermuda trails most countries in purchasing power . 2023-06-03 . . en-US . Numbeo also uses links to government websites, supermarket and restaurant sites with prices and other relevant sources, together with publicly available links to pricing for taxi and bus services..
  11. Web site: Sibthorpe . Clare . 2016-07-22 . Canberra home to the highest quality of living worldwide, according to Numbeo data . 2023-06-03 . The Age . en . Numbeo gathers statistics from a range of sources, such as websites of supermarkets, taxi company websites, governmental institutions, newspaper articles and other surveys..
  12. Web site: Anthony . John . 2018-01-19 . Hamilton's cost of living more expensive than Auckland, international index says . 2023-06-02 . . en . Numbeo says it manually collects data from "authoritative sources"..
  13. Web site: Ghazanchyan . Siranush . 17 January 2020 . Yerevan named among world's most expensive cities . 2023-06-03 . Public Radio of Armenia . en-US.
  14. Web site: Methodology and Motivation . 2023-06-02 . www.numbeo.com . Numbeo's data collection process involves a combination of user-generated input and manually gathered information from reputable sources such as supermarket and taxi company websites, and governmental institutions. The manually collected data from each source are entered twice yearly and given a weight that is three times higher than user-generated input to improve the reliability of the data..
  15. Yilmazkuday . Demet . Yilmazkuday . Hakan . The role of direct flights in trade costs . Review of World Economics . 2017 . 153 . 2 . 255 . 10.1007/s10290-016-0263-z . 26748568 . 254166486 . 1610-2878.
  16. Aizawa . Toshiaki . Helble . Matthias . Lee . Kwan Ok . Housing Inequality in Developing Asia and the United States: Will Common Problems Mean Common Solutions? . . 2020 . 22 . 2 . 33 . 26926892 . 1936-007X.
  17. Web site: Martin . Will . 2017-05-05 . The 26 major cities with the highest quality of life in the world . 2023-05-21 . Business Insider . en-US.
  18. Web site: Graff . Amy . 2019-05-20 . San Francisco now has the highest salaries in the world . 2023-05-21 . . en-US.
  19. Orii . Lisa . Alonso . Luis . Larson . Kent . 2020-11-13 . Methodology for Establishing Well-Being Urban Indicators at the District Level to be Used on the CityScope Platform . Sustainability . en . 12 . 22 . 9458 . 10.3390/su12229458 . 2071-1050 . free . 1721.1/128701 . free .
  20. Web site: Claire-Line Nass . 17 May 2022 . Attention à ce classement des "villes les plus criminelles d'Europe" dominé par des métropoles françaises . Beware of this ranking of "Europe's highest crime rate cities" dominated by French metropolises . Factuel (Agence France-Presse) . fr.
  21. Web site: Lee . Rodsen . How one Swede made a city the world's 'most dangerous' to expose fake stats . thelocal.se . 7 February 2022 . en . 17 January 2017.
  22. News: Meek . Natasha . Bradford is Europe's 'most dangerous' city? Police force slams viral claim . 23 September 2022 . . 19 August 2022 . en.
  23. News: Mwitumwa . Monde . Yorkshire city is 'most dangerous in Europe' and police boss is furious . 23 September 2022 . . 20 August 2022 . en.
  24. Web site: Thompson . Danny . 2022-08-24 . Is Coventry really the second-most dangerous city in Europe? . 2023-05-21 . . en.

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