Economic indicators
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- Increasing understanding of the macro-economic benefits of resource efficiency. Developing metrics and measurement techniques to identify key areas for intervention to achieve these benefits and to monitor progress
- How do we ensure a sustainable economic recovery post COVID-19 with environmental outcomes built in; and what is the potential for rural communities and businesses to contribute?
- What new data could be collected to estimate rates of return on international R&I?
- What can we learn about sequencing the levels of intervention and openness in an economy following a shock? How can economic theories, such as transition economics, inform this?
- What data gaps may exist in the financial and economic performance of AHT sectors and wider cultural engagement? How can these data gaps be addressed?
- How can we measure the impact of a trade agreement on value added trade? How does this differ by sector?
- Do longer term funding packages result in better outcomes? What’s the evidence?
- More detailed and reliable data on all the relevant indicators included in our publication.
- "What kind of methods exist for tracking data usage from tourists or transient visitors to an area where 4G mobile connectivity has recently been installed? How can this be used to monetise and evaluate the socio-economic benefits of installing 4G mobile connectivity?"
- What are the longer-term impacts and consequences on the labour market and on productivity of policies introduced to address the challenges of COVID-19?
- Detailed data on the price per QALY associated with each medicine and medical technology purchased by the NHS.
- What are the emerging drivers of change and what might future change look like? New thinking, analysis, and data can improve our understanding, and our ability to anticipate how economic, social, and environmental drivers might change in the future. How these affect the trajectory of environmental outcomes and the future state of rural communities and businesses?
- Can we further explore quantitatively the role of expectations and narrative in determining the economic fortunes of regions and sub-regions of the UK?
- Analyse and quantify, in economic and wider social values metrics, the legacy benefits of large scale sports events.
- Which methodologies could be used to more accurately forecast the wider impact of major cultural events on local economies and societies?
- What can the current evidence and available economic data tell us regarding price modelling, taking into account global supply chains where relevant?
- Indicators: What are the rapid indicators of AI impact on the labour market?
- To what extent are the impacts of COVID-19 temporary and which represent permanent trends to supply, demand and business models? What opportunities and challenges do these changes in behaviour present for businesses across DCMS sectors, both in the short-run and longer-term?
- Detailed company data on both current expenditure and investment in AI.
- Assess and evaluate the most effective methods of measuring the impact of tourism marketing, to demonstrate its effectiveness and value for money.
- What are the drivers of life chances which lead to poor life outcomes and what are the opportunity areas in the UK? How do these correlate with traditional proxies for local economic success, such as rates of job growth?
- What are the most appropriate methodologies and indicators to measure the environmental and economic benefits of deploying and maintaining repair and maintenance systems when protecting cultural assets? What are the benefits of this?
- To what extent is the market and actors within it able to withstand economic shocks?
- What is the emerging evidence of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economies and productivity of cities and regions, coastal/rural, and deprived areas? How does this vary across the different parts of the UK?
- Using regional and local studies, what is the impact of export finance services on localised markets? How does export finance services support regional growth and development?
- What are the key drivers of housing affordability? And what is the role of housing supply within these?