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Table 2.9: The Headline Sustainable Development Indicators[1]
THEMES, ISSUES AND OBJECTIVES
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KEY INDICATORS
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Change 1990-1999
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Maintaining High And Stable Levels Of Economic Growth And
Employment
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Social Progress Which Recognises The Needs Of Everyone
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Tackle
poverty and social exclusion
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Percentage of elderly in fuel poverty
People of working age without qualifications
People of working age in workless households
Children living in families with persistently low incomes
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Equip
people with the skills to fulfil their potential
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Qualifications at age 19
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Improve the health of the population
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Expected years of healthy life
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Reduce the proportion of unfit
housing stock
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Homes judged unfit to live in
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Reduce
crime and fear of crime
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Violent crime
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Vehicle theft; burglary
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Effective Protection Of The Environment
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Reduce
our emissions of greenhouse gases
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Emissions of greenhouse gases
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Reduce
air pollution
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Days when air pollution is moderate or high
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Reduce
the need to travel and improve choice in transport
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Road traffic
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Improve
river water quality
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River water quality
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Reverse
the long-term decline in populations of farmland and woodland birds
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Populations of wild birds
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Re-use
previously developed land
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Per cent of new homes built on previously developed land
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Prudent Use Of Natural Resources
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Move
away from disposal of waste towards waste minimisation, reuse, recycling
and recovery
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Household waste arisings and management
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Other waste arisings and management
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N/A
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Note: For some indicators, the latest available data differs
from 1999. See data notes and sources.
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Denotes no significant change
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Denotes significant change, in direction away from meeting
objective
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N/A denotes insufficient or no comparable data.
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Last updated on 12 March 2002