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• Preparing a local economic assessment
• Doing a local economic assessment
• Where and when to start
• Step 1: Vision, purpose and scope
• Step 2: Data and evidence
• Step 3: Analysing the data
• Step 4: Commissioning data
• Step 5: Drafting the assessment
• Step 6: Testing the assessment
• Step 7: Dissemination and integration of the assessment
• Step 8: Reviewing and revising

How to do a local economic assessment

Sections

• Where and when to start your local economic assessment Last updated 7 January 2010

  Use the economic diagnostic tool to establish where to start.

• Step 1: Vision, purpose and scope Last updated 28 July 2010

  This section will help you to think through the purpose of the assessment, why it is needed, which policy areas and actions it will shape, what is covered (content) and where (place).

• Step 2: Collecting initial data and evidence Last updated 30 October 2009

  This section will help you to think through the process of collecting the initial evidence for the assessment. It includes help to identify the range of evidence that contributes to understanding your area, enables comparison with other areas and evidence for other strategies.

• Step 3: Analysing the data Last updated 28 July 2010

  This section will help you to think through the process of analysing gaps in the evidence base for the assessment.

• Step 4: Commissioning and accessing additional data or evidence Last updated 28 October 2009

  This section will help you to think through the process of commissioning and assessing additional data or evidence.

• Step 5: Drafting the local economic assessment Last updated 28 October 2009

  This section will help you to think through the process of drafting, testing and refining the LEA.

• Step 6: Testing the assessment Last updated 28 October 2009

  Before producing the final version of the assessment, the draft should be circulated among a small group of internal and external stakeholders to gather their feedback.

• Step 7: Dissemination and integration of the assessment Last updated 12 March 2010

  This section will help you to position the assessment with internal and external stakeholders and identify where it should sit and what it should inform.

• Step 8: Reviewing and revising the assessment Last updated 29 October 2009

  The process of reviewing and revising the assessment at a timescale appropriate to your circumstances.