Economic Impacts of a Ban on Hunting with Dogs in Scotland.

1Scottish Executive (2000) Input-output Table Multipliers for Scotland, 1996.
2 These were those who hunted and therefore had spending associated with hunting. The hunts also have members who pay subscriptions but do not actively hunt; their expenditures associated with hunting.
3 Strictly these were cash flows since it is the flows of cash that generate economic impacts. Thus purchases cost for capital items were included and depreciation excluded.
4.Data was adjusted to take account of the difference between the survey year (1998/99) and the year to which the most recent input-output tables relate (1996). Expenditures were deflated to 1996 prices
5. If anything, the ban would create positive expenditure and employment effects on farms where hunts previously operated.
6.Average expenditure in the Borders households was not significantly different frolm the all-Scotland sample of households (p>0.05).
7.Information supplied by the Scottish Gamekeepers Association
8.This figure is for all foxes killed on the estates or farms, regardless of method, and includes foxes killed by mounted hunts and foot packs.
9 It was not possible to derive the total indirect and induced impacts from the Scottish input-output table in the way described for the mounted hunts. This reflected the restricted remit for this part of the study and the lack of available information on the expenditures of the participants in game sport shooting.