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Statistical Issues in Developing Indicators of Sustainable Development
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Summary: This paper describes the background to the development of a new official set of national indicators of sustainable development—one of the first in the world to be published. The paper discusses the role of statisticians in helping to define sustainable development, and the problems of monitoring and reporting progress. The Minister of State for the Environment has announced his ambition of developing a very small set of headline indicators. This paper is intended to help to stimulate the debate over what they should be.
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“However, an issue here is that this could result in a 'biased selection' in favour of proxies that are not able to identify and capture properly the information desired to measure (see e.g.Custance and Hillier 1998, pp. 284-285;OECD 2008, p. 32).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Custance, J., & Hillier, H.
- Affiliations
- Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Custance, J.
- Venue
- Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1998-05-01
- Volume
- 161
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 281-290
- ISSN
- 0964-1998 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-985X
- OpenAlex
- W2011037183
- Cited by
- 63
- References
- 8
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 4 · 2016: 2 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 4
- FWCI
- 9.08
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model (vor)
- Locations
- Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) (publishedVersion)
- Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Quality of Life Measurement
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Sustainable Development and Environmental Management
- Keywords
- sustainability indicators, national indicators, headline indicators, progress monitoring, official statistics, role of statisticians, sustainable development measurement, environmental statistics
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