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Scotland Performs - Purpose Targets - Solidarity

Forty-five National Indicators enable us to track progress towards the achievement of our National Outcomes and ultimately the delivery of the Purpose.

Indicators have been chosen to show how we are progressing on the range of the Outcomes. Wherever possible we have selected Indicators that come from existing datasets to allow us to understand progress and trends over time.

The 45 indicators do not provide comprehensive measurement of every activity undertaken to achieve the Outcomes and Purpose. Instead they are a carefully chosen set which we believe most clearly shows progress towards the achievement of a more successful and prosperous Scotland.

National Indicators

At least halve the gap in total research and development spending compared with EU average by 2011	Achieve annual milestones for reducing inpatient or day case waiting times culminating in the delivery of an 18 week referral to treatment time from December 2011
Increase the business start-up rate	Reduce proportion of people aged 65 and over admitted as emergency inpatients 2 or more times in a single year
Grow exports at a faster average rate than GDP	Reduce mortality from coronary heart disease among the under 75s in deprived areas
Improve public sector efficiency through the generation of 2% cash releasing efficiency savings per annum	Increase the percentage of people aged 65 and over with high levels of care needs who are cared for at home
Improve people's perceptions of the quality of public services delivered	All unintentionally homeless households will be entitled to settled accommodation by 2012
Reduce the number of Scottish public bodies by 25% by 2011	Reduce overall reconviction rates by 2 percentage points by 2011
Reduce the proportion of driver journeys delayed due to traffic congestion	Reduce overall crime victimisation rates by 2 percentage points by 2011
Increase the percentage of Scottish domiciled graduates from Scottish Higher Education Institutions in positive destinations	Increase the percentage of criminal cases dealt with within 26 weeks by 3 percentage points by 2011
Improve knowledge transfer from research activity in universities	Increase the rate of new house building
Increase the proportion of school leavers (from Scottish publicly funded schools) in positive and sustained destinations (FE, HE, employment or training)	Increase the percentage of adults who rate their neighbourhood as a good place to live
Increase the proportion of schools receiving positive inspection reports	Decrease the estimated number of problem drug users in Scotland by 2011
Reduce number of working age people with severe literacy and numeracy problems	Increase positive public perception of the general crime rate in local area
Child protection inspection findings: increase the overall proportion of local authority areas receiving positive inspection reports	Reduce overall ecological footprint
Decrease the proportion of individuals living in poverty	Increase to 95% the proportion of protected nature sites in favourable condition
60% of school children in primary 1 will have no signs of dental disease by 2010	Improve the state of Scotland’s Historic Buildings, monuments and environment
Improve the quality of healthcare experience	Biodiversity: increase the index of abundance of terrestrial breeding birds
Increase the proportion of pre-school centres receiving positive inspection reports	Increase the proportion of journeys to work made by public or active transport
Increase the social economy turnover	Increase the proportion of adults making one or more visits to the outdoors per week
Reduce the rate of increase in the proportion of children with their Body Mass Index outwith a healthy range by 2018	50% of gross electricity consumed in Scotland to come from renewable sources by 2020 (interim target of 31% by 2011)
Increase the average score of adults on the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale by 2011	Reduce to 1.32 million tonnes waste sent to landfill by 2010
Increase healthy life expectancy at birth in the most deprived areas	Ensure 70% key commercial fish stocks at full reproductive capacity and harvested sustainably by 2015
Reduce the percentage of the adult population who smoke to 22% by 2010	Improve people’s perceptions, attitudes and awareness of Scotland’s reputation
Reduce alcohol related hospital admissions by 2011