The West Midlands Economic Strategy, Connecting to Success, was launched in December 2007.
The strategy contains a framework of headline and outcome indicators to monitor the strategy's progress.
The framework consists of six headline and 38 outcome indicators. Headline indicators are:
- Gross Value Added per head.
- Regional index of sustainable economic wellbeing.
- Worklessness (percentage of the working age population who are unemployed or economically inactive).
- Gross Value Added per employee.
- Carbon emissions per £10,000 Gross Value Added.
- Regional perceptions indicator.
The outcome indicators were selected to measure progress against each of the priorities identified within the strategy. They all use data available consistently across England and are updated at least twice a year.
Reports
We produced a baseline report (pdf, 1.04mb) on the headline and outcome indicators in 2007, accompanying the strategy launch. Since then, we've produced monitoring reports each year, updating the indicators and showing progress since the baseline report.
The latest 2010 Annual Update Report (pdf, 1.95mb) was published in May 2010.
Both the baseline and update reports detail each indicator, their latest values and trends. We've also included information about the methodology used to select the indicators and the rationale for including them.
Datasets
Data for each of the indicators at West Midlands level is available in Excel format. This was published alongside the 2010 Annual Update Report in May 2010:
Download economic strategy monitoring dataset (xls, 285kb)
We were also involved in preparing a significant part of the evidence base which underpinned the review of the strategy. Copies of all reports from 2010 and previous years are available on the downloads tab at the top of this page.