What are the data sources?
The data sources that are used to calculate local Footprints are:
• 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.)
The base year for the current set of local Footprint accounts is 2001.
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