High Level Summary of Statistics Trend Last update: Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Social Economy
There is increased interest in the use of official data to measure the third sector, both within the Scottish Government and UK government departments. This is intended to measure the sustainable growth of the social economy as a provider of more and better opportunities for individuals and as a provider of innovative, customer-focused public services. The social economy captures the economic activity of the third sector, which embraces voluntary and community organisations, charities, social enterprises, mutuals and co-operatives.
A proxy measure of the turnover of the social economy in Scotland has been developed. As at March 2009, the social economy turnover in Scotland stood at £3,064 million. This represents a 4.3.% increase (in real terms) since March 2008. Since 2004 the turnover has increased by 5.4% (in real terms).
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Sources: Scottish Government, IDBR (ONS), Scottish Register of Social Landlords
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