Ecological Budget Data
Ecological Budget UK uses official data / statistics, e.g Office of National Statistics (ONS) Data, and is therefore as accurate as these official data sources suggest. SEI is in constant dialogue with statisticians from ONS and DEFRA who have kindly offered to verify the data, where possible. One of the REAP reports considers the important issue of data consistency, validity and error margins.
The Ecological Budget UK programme uses mainly official data sources from:
Office of National Statistics (ONS)
Department for Trade and Industry (DTI)
Data from agencies e.g. Environment Agency
Global Footprint Network
The data sources break down as follows:
- National (economic) Accounts (Office for National Statistics),
- National Footprint Accounts (Global Footprint Network),
- National Environmental Accounts (Office for National Statistics),
- Household Expenditure Survey (Office for National Statistics),
- National Travel Survey (Department for Transport),
- National Food Survey (Office for National Statistics)
- household expenditure by ACORN' group (CACI Ltd.),
- composition of ACORN groups in LA areas (CACI Ltd.)
For further information on Ecological Footprint Data, please see the FAQ