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Carbon Footprint: a data cube spreadsheet

Greenhouse gas emissions that are associated with the consumption by Scottish residents on goods and services and by private heating and motoring

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Reference Area Count
Countries
Scotland 73.3
Dimensions
Dimension
Value
Measure Type
  1. Count
Reference Period
  1. 1998
  2. 1999
  3. 2000
  4. 2001
  5. 2002
  6. 2003
  7. 2004
  8. 2005
  9. 2006
  10. 2007
  11. 2008
  12. 2009
  13. 2010
  14. 2011
  15. 2012
  16. 2013
  17. 2014
  18. 2015
  19. 2016
  20. 2017
Reference Area
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  1. Countries
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License
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
Issued
29/07/2014
Modified
21/07/2021
Next update due
December 2021
Description

These are sometimes referred to “consumption emissions”. Scotland’s carbon footprint is associated with the spending of Scottish residents on goods and services, wherever in the world these emissions arise along the supply chain, and those which are directly generated by Scottish households through private motoring and heating. The purpose of this dataset is to find out what effect Scottish consumption has on greenhouse gas emissions, by taking into account where the goods we buy come from and their associated supply chains.

These figures are different to territorial emissions which are presented within the “Scottish Greenhouse Gas Emissions” dataset. The carbon footprint refers to greenhouse gas emissions that are associated with the spending of Scottish residents on goods and services, wherever in the world these emissions arise along the supply chain, and those which are directly generated by Scottish households; for example, through heating and private motoring. Scotland's Carbon Footprint has been calculated in 4 steps:

  • Step 1. Develop an Input-output (IO) model;
  • Step 2. Develop a Multi-Regional Input-Output (MRIO) model;
  • Step 3. Develop UK Based MRIO Model;
  • Step 4. Develop the Scottish Consumption Based Account (the Scottish Carbon Footprint).

The carbon footprint is not calculated in the same way as Scotland's greenhouse gas emissions, which occur within a country's borders. http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Environment/Publications

Details
Confidentiality Policy

These figures are compiled in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics. A restricted number of people are granted pre-release access for quality assurance and for briefing of these statistics.
Quality Management

Members of the Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) at Leeds University have compiled the figures and improved the methodology used in the Scottish Carbon Footprint statistics release.
Accuracy and Reliability

Scotland's Carbon Footprint has been calculated in 4 steps: Step 1. Develop an Input-output (IO) model; Step 2. Develop a Multi-Regional Input-Output (MRIO) model; Step 3. Develop UK Based MRIO Model; Step 4. Develop the Scottish Consumption Based Account (the Scottish Carbon Footprint). More detailed information on each of the steps can be found in the Official Statistics publication "Scottish Carbon Footprint, 1998-2017"
Coherence and Comparability

The figures are comparable to the UK Carbon Footprint release but totals for other countries are not comparable, due to on-going international developments in methodology.
Accessibility and Clarity

These statistics are published in the Scotland's Carbon Footprint, 1998-2017 Official Statistics publication. The data are published in Excel format and is also available as a PDF with accompanying commentary.
Relevance

A reduction in the carbon footprint Scotland is an indicator of more sustainable consumption behaviour from both individuals and businesses.
Timeliness and Punctuality

The data are published on an annual basis around 3 years after the reference period. This is due to the time lags involved in obtaining and developing the underlying global economic data which are required for "Scotland's Carbon Footprint, 1998-2017" publication.
Revisions

Methodological changes are made to the UKMRIO between each release.

Since the carbon footprint was first published, successive releases have used different versions of the UK MRIO model. The 2012 release used a 2-region model which only distinguished the UK and the Rest of the World as trade regions. The 2013, 2015 and 2016 releases used a four region model, distinguishing imports from Europe, China and the Rest of World, using trade data from the Eora global MRIO. The 2017 model adopted the same four regions but used trade data from a source called EXIOBASE MRIO.
URI

This slice of multidimensional data is not a Linked Data resource in the database: it's a virtual resource (i.e. you can't query it by SPARQL). But does have a permanent unique URL which can be bookmarked.

http://statistics.gov.scot/slice?dataset=http%3A%2F%2Fstatistics.gov.scot%2Fdata%2Fcarbon-footprint&http%3A%2F%2Fpurl.org%2Flinked-data%2Fsdmx%2F2009%2Fdimension%23refPeriod=http%3A%2F%2Freference.data.gov.uk%2Fid%2Fyear%2F2016
Dimensions Linked Data

A linked data-orientated view of dimensions and values

Dimension Locked Value
Reference Period
http://purl.org/linked-data/sdmx/2009/dimension#refPeriod
 2016
http://reference.data.gov.uk/id/year/2016
Reference Area
http://purl.org/linked-data/sdmx/2009/dimension#refArea
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Measure Type
http://purl.org/linked-data/cube#measureType
 (not locked to a value)