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| | DEFRA, UK: 2002 news releases:ENGLAND'S QUALITY OF LIFE BAROMETER RISING IN SOME REGIONS FASTER THAN OTHERS - ELLIOT ... |
 | | The regional versions of the Government's national Headline indicators of sustainable development provide a Quality of Life barometer across the regions, delivering a regional perspective on how much progress has been made in people's everyday concerns like health, jobs, crime, air quality, road traffic, housing, educational achievement, economic prosperity, and other areas like wildlife. |
 | | After housing costs, this rises to 41 per cent, compared to the average for England of 30 per cent and highlights the effect of high housing costs in London when compared to the rest of the country. |
 | | Whilst the trend for woodland birds varies the trend for farmland birds is consistently downwards in the regions for which the indicator has been produced and the most rapid decline occurred between the mid-1970s and mid-1980s. |
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