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Statistical issues in developing indicators of sustainable development
Author(s) -
Custance J.,
Hillier H.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of the royal statistical society: series a (statistics in society)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.103
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1467-985X
pISSN - 0964-1998
DOI - 10.1111/1467-985x.00108
Subject(s) - headline , sustainable development , set (abstract data type) , state (computer science) , political science , developing country , computer science , process management , management science , business , economic growth , economics , law , advertising , algorithm , programming language
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.