Baseline Study
The baseline study was a preliminary study carried out in June and July 2002 by Imperial College Consultants, under the leadership of Professor Berkeley Hill. The study aimed to identify the data sources that the Mid-term Evaluation team will need to analyse, and assess these data sources in terms of their location (contact details of the person/organisation that holds the data), characteristics (frequency of sampling, regional level etc) and quality (robustness, gaps etc). The baseline study also made a number of recommendations and suggestions for the eventual Mid-term Evaluation team, and studied and reviewed other documents and data sources that may be of use in the main evaluation.
The report of the baseline study, along with the numerous annexes, can be found below. You should be aware that some of these annexes are extremely long and so you may only want to view electronically.
The study looked at the indicators and related data sources that
are quoted in Annex IV of Defra's Mid-term
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[289Kb], as well as other useful and relevant data sources and indicators
that appear in other research, evaluations and studies. Annexes
4.3 and 4.4 of the baseline study are essentially data catalogues
that record the topics mentioned above.
Recommendations for the Mid-term Evaluation team can be found in section 5 of the main report. These include specific recommendations concerning data sets (more detail on these can be found in table 6.1 at the back of the main report) and also more general suggestions. The latter includes the use of "data accumulators", these being people or organisations that, due to the nature of their jobs, have access to a great number of the appropriate data sets. The baseline study team therefore suggests that the Mid-term Evaluators make good use of these people's expertise and contacts. Another recommendation concerns potential problems of using the Defra GI Unit in Leeds to spatially analyse data. These issues are currently being studied by Rural Development Division and will be further discussed with the Mid-term Evaluation team, when in place.
REPORT OF
THE ENGLAND RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (ERDP) BASELINE STUDY [363Kb]
Annex 2.1 -
Minutes of scheme manager meetings[39Kb]
Annex 3.2 -
Reviews of indicators and data contained in published (or nearly-published)
evaluations[133Kb]
Annex 4.3 -
Catalogue of datasets mentioned in ERDP evaluation strategy document
Annex IV
[1.8Mb]
Annex 4.4 -
Catalogue of datasets mentioned in national documents[154Kb]
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