Indicators of Sustainable Development

Quality of life counts: 2004

H Headline Indicators

Please note that the headline indicators as they are presented here are as they appeared in the update of Quality of life counts.

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The fifteen headline indicators aim to show what progress is being made across the three pillars of sustainable development: economic (three indicators), social (five indicators), and environment (seven indicators), and are intended to be considered together as a package. The complexity of the issues mean that although there are fifteen indicators, four of them have split assessments to reflect separate trends and so there are nineteen assessments.

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Ref No	Indicator		QOLC 1999		QOLC Updated Assessment
			Change since		Change since
			1970	1990	1970	1990	Strategy
H1	Economic Output: GDP and GDP per head
H2	Investment: Total and social investment relative to GDP
H3	Employment: Proportion of people of working age who are in work
H4	Poverty: Indicators of success in tackling poverty and social exclusion
H5	Education: Qualifications at age 19
H6	Health: Expected years of healthy life
H7	Housing: Households living in non-decent housing
H8	Level of crime	Violent crime			Revised	Revised	Revised
		Vehicles and burglary
		Robbery
H9	Climate change: Emissions of greenhouse gases
H10	Air quality: Days when air pollution is moderate or higher
H11	Road traffic	Traffic volume
		Traffic intensity
H12	River water quality: Chemical and biological river quality
H13	Wildlife: Populations of wild birds	Woodland birds
		Farmland birds
H14	Land use: New homes built on previously developed land
H15	Waste	Household waste
		Waste arisings & management