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Age Concern (1999) Age Concern in the East of England; a response to the draft Regional Economic Strategy for the East of England Development Agency

Allsopp, C. (2003) Review of Statistics for Economic Policymaking HM Treasury
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/consultations_and_legislation/allsop_review/consult_allsopp_index.cfm

Arts Council of England (2002) Target Group Index, 2000/01 and 2001/02

Arts Council of England and re:source (2002) Arts in England: Attendance, Participation and Attitudes in 2001
http://www.mla.gov.uk/documents/artsurv2001.pdf

Burns Owen Partnership and The School of Performance and Creative Industries, University of Leeds (2004) Creative Industries Mapping and Impact Study, South West RDA and Culture South West, Stage One Data & Technical Report (Version 3.0)

Cabinet Office and Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions (2002) Your Region, Your Choice: Revitalising the English Regions
http://www.odpm.gov.uk/stellent/groups/odpm_regions/documents/sectionhomepage/odpm_regions_page.hcsp

CACI Ltd - 'Paycheck' income data
http://www.caci.co.uk/data-depot.htm

Cambridge Econometrics (2003) The Value of the Sports Economy in the Regions: the case of the South West Sport England South West
http://www.sportengland.org/sporteng_sw_june03.pdf

Civil Aviation Authority - aviation statistics
http://www.caa.co.uk/erg/erg_stats/default.asp

Commission for Health Improvement - NHS trust ratings
http://www.chi.nhs.uk/ratings

Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre (2004) South West bulletin, 12/2

Countryside Agency (2003) Rural Services in 2000, Digital Data Geographical Availability of Services (updates)
http://www.countryside.gov.uk/Publications/articles/Publication_tcm2-4210.asp

CPRE (1995) England's Disappearing Tranquillity
http://www.cpre.org.uk/campaigns/landscape-and-beauty/tranquil-areas/index.htm

CPRE (2003) Light Pollution: South West
http://www.cpre.org.uk/resources/pub/pdfs/landscape/light-pollution/light-pollution-map-sw.pdf

Culture South West (2003) Joining the Dots: Cultural Sector Research in the South West of England
http://www.culturesouthwest.org.uk/downloads/index.asp

Defra - Air quality; agriculture; forestry; mining and quarrying; fish stocks; waste; wild bird statistics
http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/statistics/azindex.htm

DfES - Education data gateway, including statistical first release'
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway

DfT (2003) 'Road traffic and air quality data; national travel survey; regional transport statistics'
http://www.dft.gov.uk

DoH (2002) Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer
http://www.publications.doh.gov.uk/cmo/annualreport2002

DoH and DETR - Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants (COMEAP) (2000) 'The health effects of air pollutants'
http://www.doh.gov.uk/comeap/statementsreports/healtheffects.htm

DoH Compendium of Clinical Indicators

DoH Health Survey for England

DoWP - Family resources survey; households below average income; key benefit recipients
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/asd/frs

Drinking Water Inspectorate (2002) Annual Report
http://www.dwi.gov.uk/pubs/annrep02/contents.htm

DTI - ICT and e-commerce data
http://www.dti.gov.uk/statistics

Empty Homes Agency - data on vacant dwellings
http://www.emptyhomes.com

English Heritage (2003) Heritage Counts
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/heritage_counts

English Nature (2003) England's best wildlife and geological sites: the condition of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in England
http://www.english-nature.org.uk/news/news_photo/SSSI_Condition_Report.pdf

Environment Agency & RSPB (1999) Environmental Prospectus for South West England
http://www.rspb.org.uk/Images/SW%20full_tcm5-31041.pdf

Environment Agency (2004) - water and air quality; flooding; biodiversity
http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk

Forestry Commission (1997) National Inventory of Woodland and Trees
http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/nisouthwest.pdf

GOSW & SW RDA (2003) Doing Things Differently - Shaping the Delivery Plan for a Sustainable Farming & Food Industry in South West England
http://www.southwestrda.org.uk/downloads/

Health Development Agency (2002) Prevention and Reduction of Alcohol Misuse, Evidence Briefing
http://www.hda-online.org.uk/documents/AlcoholSumPO.pdf

Health Education Authority (1998) The UK Smoking Epidemic

Health Protection Agency (2003) Quarterly HIV & Aids Surveillance
http://www.hpa.org.uk/infections/topics_az/hiv_and_sti/publications/annual2003/annual2003.htm

Higher Education Statistics Agency - higher education statistics
http://www.hesa.ac.uk/products/

HM Customs and Excise - trade data
http://www.hmce.gov.uk/business/importing/tradestatistics/ukregstats.htm

HM Treasury (2001) Productivity in the UK 3: the Regional Dimension
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/documents/enterprise_and_productivity/ent_index.cfm

Holmes, K.K. et al. (1999) Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Home Office - crime data; British crime survey; citizenship survey
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/a-zsubjects.html

Home Office (2003) Geographical Variations in Drug Use, Key Findings from the 2001/2002 British Crime Survey
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/r229.pdf

Home Office (2003) Together: tackling anti-social behaviour
http://www.together.gov.uk/

Home Office GOSW Research Team (2002) South West crime ranking digest
http://www.gosw.gov.uk/Crime_Reduction/Regional_Profile/

House of Commons Science Committee (2003) 7th report - light pollution and astronomy
http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200203/cmselect/cmsctech/747/74702.htm

Inland Revenue - taxpayers' incomes
http://www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk/stats/income_tax/index.htm

Joseph Rowntree Foundation (2003) Can Work - Can't Buy JRF
http://www.jrf.org.uk/knowledge/findings/housing/573.asp

Lancaster University, NW Regional Research Laboratory (2000) An Ageing Population: Impacts for the North West

Learning and Skills Council 'National employers skills survey'
http://www.lsc.gov.uk/National/Documents/default.htm

Lobley, M and Barr, D. (2003) 'Sustainable Food and Farming Strategy Indicator Project' Final Report to GOSW Centre for Rural Research, University of Exeter

Marine Conservation Society (2003) Beachwatch 2002 Report
http://www.adoptabeach.org.uk

McVittie, E (2003) Productivity in the South West of England University of Plymouth

Meteorological Office (2003) Average Annual Rainfall in the South West and England 1992-2002

Meteorological Office (2003) Trend in Mean Annual Temperature for Exmouth

National Audit Office (2001) Tackling Obesity in England, Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General HC 220
http://www.nao.org.uk/publications/nao_reports/00-01/0001220.pdf

National Trust (1999) Valuing our Environment - A Study of the Economic Impact of Conserved Landscapes and of the National Trust in the South West
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/policy/documents/env_sw_full.pdf

NETCEN - Air quality archive
http://www.airquality.co.uk/archive/index.php

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister - housing statistics; English house condition survey; land use change statistics; index of multiple deprivation
http://www.odpm.gov.uk/stellent/groups/odpm_control/documents/contentservertemplate/odpm_index.hcst?n=1537&l=1

ONS 2001 Census
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census

ONS - economic data; gross value added; household income; business enterprise; family expenditure survey (later expenditure and food survey); family spending; general household survey; income estimates; omnibus survey; time use survey
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase

ONS Labour Force Survey
http://www.nomisweb.co.uk/

ONS - mid-year population estimates; births and deaths; migration
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/nscl.asp?ID=7433

ONS New Earnings Survey
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/nscl.asp?id=8242

ONS Regional Trends
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_compendia/Regional_Trends_38/rt38.pdf

ONS (2001) Geographic Variations in Health, decennial supplement DS16
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_health/DS16/ds16.asp

ONS (2001) Statistics from the Regional Drug Misuse Databases on Drug Misusers in Treatment in England, 2000/01

ONS (2002) Trends in Life Expectancy by Social Class, 1972-1999
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=8460&More=N

ONS (2003) South West Region in Figures
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase

ONS (2003) Statistics on Smoking, England
http://www.publications.doh.gov.uk/public/sb0321.htm

RegenSW (2004) Grid-connected renewable energy projects in the South West
http://www.regensw.co.uk/documents/projects-in-the-south-west-january-2004.pdf

Small Business Service - VAT registration data
http://www.sbs.gov.uk/

SW Biodiversity Audit (1998) biodiversity data
http://www.oursouthwest.com

SW Economy Centre & SWO Business & Economy (2003) South West Regional Accounts/econ-I for 1999

SW Economy Centre (2004) The Economic Contribution of Museums, Libraries and Archives in the South West w
http://www.swmlac.org.uk/index.php?ID=308

SW Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (2001) Mapping Trends in South West Museums
http://www.swmlac.org.uk/index.php?ID=310

SW Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (2002) Making a Difference: the Impact of Museums, Libraries and Archives in the South West
http://www.swmlac.org.uk/index.php?ID=308

SW Public Health Observatory (2002) The Impact of Drug Misuse on Health in the South West, 1996-2001
http://www.swpho.org.uk/drugsimpact/

SW Public Health Observatory (2003) Health and Lifestyle in the South West, bulletin 1
http://www.swpho.org.uk/smokingbull2003/tobacco.pdf

SW Public Health Observatory (2003) Health and the Census, 1
http://www.swo.org.uk/census/bulletin/documents/Health_bulletin.pdf

SW RDA & Forestry Commission (2002) South West England Woodland and Forestry Strategic Economic Study: Final Report

SW RDA (2003) Regional Economic Strategy for the South West of England 2003-2012
http://www.southwestrda.org.uk/downloads

SW RDA, English Nature & RSPB (2003) Environmental Economy in the Rural Areas of South West England
http://www.southwestrda.org.uk/downloads

SW Region Climate Change Impacts Scoping Study (2003) Warming to the Idea - Meeting the Challenge of Climate Change in the South West
http://www.oursouthwest.com/climate

SW Regional Assembly (2004) Regional Planning Guidance Annual Monitoring Report
http://www.southwest-ra.gov.uk/swra/ourwork/planningandtransport/monitorrpg.shtml

SW Regional Research Group (2003) The Value of Tourism to the South West Economy in 2001 South West Tourism
http://www.swtourism.co.uk/html/projects.shtm

SW Tourism - visitor numbers
http://www.swtourism.co.uk/html/research_statistics

SWO Environment Module (2004) State of the Region's Environment www.swenvo.org.uk

The Wildlife Trusts (2003) Conservation Plan - Marine
http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/index.php?section=about:conservation:marine

UK Trade and Invest - investment data
http://www.uktradeinvest.gov.uk/

Wasserheit, JN (1992) Epidemiological Synergy