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| # Proj4 is also now deprecated in favour of WKT2, so I will be adapting code to use this more robust standard in the future. See here for more details: https://inbo.github.io/tutorials/tutorials/spatial_crs_coding/#set-the-crs-of-a-spatial-object-in-sp | ||||
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|   \title{Mapping Environmental Action in Scotland} | ||||
|     \pretitle{\vspace{\droptitle}\centering\huge} | ||||
|   \posttitle{\par} | ||||
|     \author{\href{http://jeremykidwell.info}{Jeremy H. Kidwell}} | ||||
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| 
 | ||||
| \hypertarget{introduction15541312}{% | ||||
| \section[Introduction]{\texorpdfstring{Introduction\footnote{This | ||||
|   research was jointly funded by the AHRC/ESRC under project numnbers | ||||
|   AH/K005456/1 and AH/P005063/1.}}{Introduction}}\label{introduction15541312}} | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Until recently, environmentalism has been treated by governments and | ||||
| environmental charities as a largely secular concern. In spite of the | ||||
| well-developed tradition of ``eco-theology'' which began in earnest in | ||||
| the UK in the mid-twentieth century (and which has many precursors in | ||||
| previous centuries), third-sector groups and governments, particularly | ||||
| in Britain and Europe, have largely ignored religious groups as they | ||||
| have gone about their business crafting agendas for behaviour change, | ||||
| developing funding programmes, and developing platforms to mitigate | ||||
| ecological harm, motivate consumers and create regulation regimes. That | ||||
| this has changed is evidenced by the fact that several prominent | ||||
| non-religious environmental groups have commissioned studies and crafted | ||||
| outreach programmes to persons with a particular faith tradition or to | ||||
| ``spiritual communities'' including RSPB (2013) and the Sierra Club USA | ||||
| (2008).\footnote{This is not to say that there have been no | ||||
|   collaborations before 2000, noteworthy in this respect is the WWF who | ||||
|   helped to found the Alliance of Religion and Conservation (ARC) in | ||||
|   1985.} Further, since 2008, the Scottish Government has provided a | ||||
| significant portion of funding for the ecumenical charity, | ||||
| Eco-Congregation Scotland, which works to promote literacy on | ||||
| environmental issues in religious communities in Scotland and helps to | ||||
| certify congregations under their award programme. What is not well | ||||
| known, however, even by these religious environmental groups themselves, | ||||
| is whether or how their membership might be different from other | ||||
| environmental groups. This study represents an attempt to illuminate | ||||
| this new interest with some more concrete data about religious groups in | ||||
| Scotland and how they may differ from non-religious counterparts. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| \hypertarget{eco-congregation-scotland-the-basics}{% | ||||
| \section{Eco-Congregation Scotland: The | ||||
| Basics}\label{eco-congregation-scotland-the-basics}} | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| There are 344 eco-congregations in Scotland. By some measurements, | ||||
| particularly in terms of individual sites and possibly also with regards | ||||
| to volunteers, this makes Eco-Congregation Scotland one of the largest | ||||
| environmental third-sector groups in Scotland.\footnote{This suggestion | ||||
|   should be qualified - RSPB would greatly exceed ECS both in terms of | ||||
|   the number of individual subscribers and budget. The RSPB trustee's | ||||
|   report for 2013-2014 suggests that their member base was 1,114,938 | ||||
|   people across Britain with a net income of £127m - the latter of which | ||||
|   exceeds the Church of Scotland. If we adjust this based on the | ||||
|   Scottish share of the population of the United Kingdom as of the 2011 | ||||
|   census (8.3\%) this leaves us with an income of £9.93m. The British | ||||
|   charity commission requires charities to self-report the number of | ||||
|   volunteers and staff, and from their most recent statistics we learn | ||||
|   that RSPB engaged with 17,600 volunteers and employed 2,110 members of | ||||
|   staff. Again, adjusted for population, this leaves 1,460 volunteers in | ||||
|   Scotland and 176 staff. However, if we measure environmental groups | ||||
|   based on the number of sites they maintain, RSPB has only 40 reserves | ||||
|   with varying levels of local community engagement. For comparison, as | ||||
|   of Sep 14 2015, Friends of the Earth Scotland had only 10 local groups | ||||
|   (concentrated mostly in large urban areas). Depending on how one | ||||
|   measures ``volunteerism,'' it may be possible that ECS has more | ||||
|   engaged volunteers in Scotland as well - if each ECS group had only 4 | ||||
|   ``volunteers'' then this would exceed RSPB.} | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| In seeking to conduct GIS and statistical analysis of ECS, it is | ||||
| important to note that there some ways in which these sites are | ||||
| statistically opaque. Our research conducted through interviews at a | ||||
| sampling of sites and analysis of a variety of documents suggests that | ||||
| there is a high level of diversity both in terms of the number of those | ||||
| participating in environmental action and the types of action underway | ||||
| at specific sites. Work at a particular site can also ebb and flow over | ||||
| the course of time. Of course, as research into other forms of activism | ||||
| and secular environmental NGOs has shown, this is no different from any | ||||
| other third sector volunteer group. Variability is a regular feature of | ||||
| groups involved in activism and/or environmental concern. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| For the sake of this analysis, we took each Eco-Congregation Scotland | ||||
| site to represent a point of analysis as if each specific site | ||||
| represented a community group which had ``opted-in'' on environmental | ||||
| concern. On this basis, in this section, in the tradition of human | ||||
| geography, we ``map'' environmental action among religious communities | ||||
| in Scotland a variety of ways. This is the first major geographical | ||||
| analysis of this kind conducted to date in Europe. We measure the | ||||
| frequency and location of ECS sites against a variety of standard | ||||
| geo-referenced statistical data sets, seeking to provide a statistical | ||||
| and geographically based assessment of the participation of religious | ||||
| groups in relation to the following: | ||||
| 
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| \begin{itemize} | ||||
| \tightlist | ||||
| \item | ||||
|   Location within Scotland | ||||
| \item | ||||
|   Religious affiliation | ||||
| \item | ||||
|   Relation to the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) | ||||
| \item | ||||
|   Relation to the 8-Fold Scottish Government Urban-Rural Scale | ||||
| \item | ||||
|   Proximity to ``wilderness'' (based on several different designations) | ||||
| \end{itemize} | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| For the sake of comparison, we also measured the geographical footprint | ||||
| of two other forms of community group in Scotland, (1) Transition Towns | ||||
| (taking into account their recent merge with Scotland Communities | ||||
| Climate Action Network) and (2) member groups of the Development Trust | ||||
| Association Scotland (``DTAS''). These two groups provide a helpful | ||||
| basis for comparison as they are not centralised and thus have a | ||||
| significant geographical dispersion across Scotland. They also provide a | ||||
| useful comparison as transition is a (mostly) non-religious | ||||
| environmental movement, and community development trusts are not | ||||
| explicitly linked to environmental conservation (though this is often | ||||
| part of their remit), so we have a non-religious point of comparison in | ||||
| Transition and a non-environmental point of comparison with DTAS | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| \hypertarget{technical-background}{% | ||||
| \section{Technical Background}\label{technical-background}} | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Analysis was conducted using QGIS 2.8 and R 3.5.2, and data-sets were | ||||
| generated in CSV format.\footnote{Kidwell, Jeremy. (2016). | ||||
|   Eco-Congregation Scotland, 2014-2016. University of Edinburgh. | ||||
|   \url{http://dx.doi.org/10.7488/ds/1357}.} To begin with, I assembled a | ||||
| data set consisting of x and y coordinates for each congregation in | ||||
| Scotland and collated this against a variety of other specific data. | ||||
| Coordinates were checked by matching UK postcodes of individual | ||||
| congregations against geo-referencing data in the Office for National | ||||
| Statistics postcode database. In certain instances a single | ||||
| ``congregation'' is actually a series of sites which have joined | ||||
| together under one administrative unit. In these cases, each site was | ||||
| treated as a separate data point if worship was held at that site at | ||||
| least once a month, but all joined sites shared a single unique | ||||
| identifier. As noted above, two other datasets were generated for the | ||||
| sake of comparative analysis.\footnote{For further detail on Dataset | ||||
|   generation, see Kidwell, Forthcoming, 2018.} These included one | ||||
| similar Environmental Non-Governmental Organisation (ENGO) in Scotland | ||||
| (1) Transition Scotland (which includes Scotland Communities Climate | ||||
| Action Network);\footnote{My dataset on transition towns will be made | ||||
|   available later in 2016. Initial data was aquired from the Transition | ||||
|   Scotland website | ||||
|   \url{http://www.transitionscotland.org/transition-in-scotland} on | ||||
|   December 10, 2014. We are currently in the process of collaboratively | ||||
|   generating a more up-to-date dataset which will reflect their | ||||
|   collaboration with SCCAN.} and another community-based NGO, Scottish | ||||
| Community Development Trusts.\footnote{Data was acquired from the | ||||
|   Development Trusts Association website, | ||||
|   \url{http://www.dtascot.org.uk}, accessed on 20 July 2015. As above, | ||||
|   we are currently in the process of active collaboration with | ||||
|   volunteers from the DTAS to co-generate a new dataset.} As this report | ||||
| will detail, these three overlap in certain instances both literally and | ||||
| in terms of their aims, but each also has a separate identity and | ||||
| footprint in Scotland. Finally, in order to normalise data, we utilised | ||||
| the PointX POI dataset which maintains a complete database of Places of | ||||
| Worship in Scotland.\footnote{PointX data for ``Landscape Data'' items | ||||
|   is sourced from Ordnance Survey Land-Line and MasterMap(R) and the | ||||
|   data points are augmented with additional information provided through | ||||
|   research by PointX staff, and data aquired from unidentified ``local | ||||
|   data companie(s)'' and the ``118 Information'' database (see: | ||||
|   \url{http://www.118information.co.uk}). This data is under license and | ||||
|   cannot be made available for use. It is important to note that I | ||||
|   became aware of inaccuracies in this dataset over the course of use | ||||
|   and subsequently generated my own dataset in collaboration with | ||||
|   churches in Scotland. This will be made available later in 2016. I am | ||||
|   in active conversation with OS about improving the quality of the data | ||||
|   in PointX regarding places of worship.} | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| \hypertarget{background-and-history-of-eco-congregation-scotland}{% | ||||
| \section{Background and History of Eco-Congregation | ||||
| Scotland}\label{background-and-history-of-eco-congregation-scotland}} | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Eco-Congregation Scotland began a year before the official launch of | ||||
| Eco-Congregation England and Wales, in 1999, as part of an effort by | ||||
| Kippen Environment Centre (later renamed to Forth Environment Link, or | ||||
| ``FEL'') a charity devoted to environmental education in central | ||||
| Scotland\footnote{From \url{http://www.forthenvironmentlink.org}, | ||||
|   accessed 12 July 2015.} to broaden the scope of its environmental | ||||
| outreach to churches in central Scotland.\footnote{Interview with | ||||
|   Margaret Warnock, 29 Aug 2014.} Initial funding was provided, through | ||||
| Kippen Environment Centre by way of a ``sustainable action grant'' (with | ||||
| funds drawn from a government landfill tax) through a government | ||||
| programme called Keep Scotland Beautiful (the Scottish cousin of Keep | ||||
| Britain Tidy). After this initial pilot project concluded, the Church of | ||||
| Scotland provided additional funding for the project in the form of | ||||
| staff time and office space. Additional funding a few years later from | ||||
| the Scottish Government helped subsidise the position of a business | ||||
| manager, and in 2011 the United Reformed Church contributed additional | ||||
| funding which subsidised the position of a full-time environmental | ||||
| chaplain for a 5-year term, bringing the total staff to five. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| The programme launched officially in 2001 at Dunblane Cathedral in | ||||
| Stirling and by 2005 the project had 89 congregations registered to be a | ||||
| part of the programme and 25 which had completed the curriculum | ||||
| successfully and received an Eco-Congregation award. By 2011, the number | ||||
| of registrations had tripled to 269 and the number of awarded | ||||
| congregations had quadrupled to | ||||
| \texttt{sum(ecs\$award1\ \textless{}\ "01/01/2012",\ na.rm=TRUE)}. This | ||||
| process of taking registrations and using a tiered award or recognition | ||||
| scheme is common to many voluntary organisations. The ECS curriculum was | ||||
| developed in part by consulting the Eco-Congregation England and Wales | ||||
| materials which had been released just a year earlier in 1999, though it | ||||
| has been subsequently revised, particularly with a major redesign in | ||||
| 2010. In the USA, a number of similar groups take a similar approach | ||||
| including Earth Ministry (earthministry.org) and Green Faith | ||||
| (greenfaith.org). | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| In the case of Eco-Congregation Scotland, congregations are invited to | ||||
| begin by ``registering'' their interest in the programme by completing a | ||||
| basic one-sided form. The next step requires the completion of an award | ||||
| application, which includes a facilitated curriculum called a ``church | ||||
| check-up'' and after an application is submitted, the site is visited | ||||
| and assessed by third-party volunteer assessors. Sites are invited to | ||||
| complete additional applications for further awards which are | ||||
| incremental (as is the application process). Transition communities, at | ||||
| least in the period reflected on their map, go through a similar process | ||||
| (though this does not involve the use of a supplied curriculum) by which | ||||
| they are marked first as ``interested,'' become ``active'' and then gain | ||||
| ``official'' status.\footnote{From the Transition map key, ``Green pins | ||||
|   are `official' groups Blue pins are active communities who are | ||||
|   connected to the Scottish Transition network Yellow pins show interest | ||||
|   in this area''} | ||||
| 
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| \hypertarget{representation-by-regional-authorities-council-areas}{% | ||||
| \section{Representation by Regional Authorities (Council | ||||
| Areas)}\label{representation-by-regional-authorities-council-areas}} | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Perhaps the first important question to ask of these groups is, where | ||||
| are they? I calculated the spread of eco-congregations and transition | ||||
| groups across each of the 32 council areas in Scotland. Every council | ||||
| area in Scotland has at least one eco-congregation or transition group). | ||||
| The most are located in , with 48, whereas the mean among all the 32 | ||||
| council areas is 10.75, with a median of 8, standard deviation of | ||||
| 9.4698162, and interquartile range of 11.5. The following choropleth | ||||
| maps show the relative concentration of eco-congregations (indicated by | ||||
| yellow to red). | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| (\emph{TODO: need to implement}) Though there are too few | ||||
| eco-congregations and transition groups for a numerically significant | ||||
| representation in any of the intermediate geographies, mapping the | ||||
| concentration of sites by agricultural parishes allows for a more | ||||
| granular visual and I include this for comparison sake. Note, for the | ||||
| sake of a more accurate visual communication, we have also marked out | ||||
| areas of Scotland that are uninhabited with hash marks on the map of | ||||
| agricultural parishes. (\emph{TODO: this will be done in the final | ||||
| draft, once I get my image masking fixed!}).\footnote{This was | ||||
|   calculated by calculating a 10m wide footprint for every postcode in | ||||
|   Scotland, areas which are not within 10m of a postcode (as of May | ||||
|   2014) are counted as uninhabited.} | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| \begin{figure} | ||||
| \centering | ||||
| \includegraphics{figures/plot_admin_ecs_choropleth-1.pdf} | ||||
| \caption{Figure 1} | ||||
| \end{figure} | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| \includegraphics{figures/plot_admin_ecs_normed_choropleth-1.pdf} | ||||
| \includegraphics{figures/plot_admin_ecs_normed_choropleth-2.pdf} | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Given the way population and places of worship are unevenly distributed | ||||
| across Scotland it is important to represent data in terms of relative | ||||
| distribution. For this study, we attempted to ``normalise'' our data in | ||||
| two different ways, (1) as shown by Figure 2 above, by taking population | ||||
| figures from the 2011 census (see data sheet in Appendix A) and (2) by | ||||
| adjusting relative to the number of places of worship in each council | ||||
| region.\footnote{See note above regarding the data used from the PointX | ||||
|   POI database. Note, for our research,we filtered out religious groups | ||||
|   not represented within the Eco-Congregation footprint. We discuss | ||||
|   representation by tradition and religion further below.adition and | ||||
|   religion further below.} The latter of these two can yield | ||||
| particularly unexpected results. Thus, of the 4048 ``places of worship'' | ||||
| in Scotland, the highest concentration is actually the region, with 435, | ||||
| second is 329 (). Rank of Council Areas by population and number of | ||||
| places of worship is also included in Appendix A. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| We can use this data to normalise our figures regarding Eco-Congregation | ||||
| Scotland communities and this draws the presence in Edinburgh of ECS | ||||
| communities into even sharper relief, as Edinburgh, though ranked second | ||||
| in terms of population and fifth in terms of places of worship, ranks | ||||
| first for the presence of all ECS congregations and awarded ECS | ||||
| congregations. However, taking population as the basis for normalisation | ||||
| first, we find that Edinburgh is far from the most prominent outlier. In | ||||
| trying to communicate this difference for a lay-audience, we have chosen | ||||
| to list this difference as a multiplier (i.e.~there are 2.x times as | ||||
| many congregations as their share of population and an average figure of | ||||
| congregations might allow for) as this conveys the difference in a | ||||
| straight-forward way. Outliers where the disparity between their | ||||
| relative share of the total ECS footprint and their relative share of | ||||
| population is different by a positive ratio of more than double include | ||||
| the Orkney Islands (3.7 times more eco-congregations than their expected | ||||
| average share based on population), Argyll and Bute | ||||
| (\texttt{admin\_lev1{[}CODE=S12000023{]}\$ecs\_pop\_factor} 4.2x), | ||||
| Stirling (2.76x), and Perthshire and Kinross (2.18x). Interestingly, | ||||
| there are no outliers whose relative share of the total footprint of ECS | ||||
| is double or more in the negative direction (see Appendix A chart for | ||||
| full numbers). | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Turning to the total of 4048 ``places of worship'' in Scotland, we find | ||||
| a slightly different picture of the relative concentration of | ||||
| Eco-Congregations in Scotland. In this case, the outliers are | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Whereas our initial measurements indicated a prominent lead for | ||||
| Edinburgh, by normalising our data in this way we can highlight the | ||||
| stronger-than-expected presence of several others that might otherwise | ||||
| escape notice because they lie in a region with significantly lower | ||||
| population or numerically less places of worship. Taking the PointX data | ||||
| on ``places of worship'' in Scotland, we find a less dramatic picture, | ||||
| but also a slightly different one. The positive outliers include East | ||||
| Renfrewshire (3.4x) Edinburgh (2.9x), Stirling (2.2), West Lothian | ||||
| (1.9x) and Aberdeen (1.5x). Again, negative outliers are far less | ||||
| dramatic, with only Midlothian possessing a ratio of more than 100\% | ||||
| negative difference from the number of ``places of worship'' at 1.5x | ||||
| \emph{fewer}. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| \includegraphics{figures/create_admin_barplot-1.pdf} | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| \includegraphics{figures/create_choropleth_others-1.pdf} | ||||
| \includegraphics{figures/create_choropleth_others-2.pdf} | ||||
| \includegraphics{figures/create_choropleth_others-3.pdf} | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| We can compare the representation in these various regions against our | ||||
| comparison groups to see how other community-based organisations cluster | ||||
| in Scottish administrative districts. Here there are some significant | ||||
| contrasts. Scottish Community Development trusts are most intensely | ||||
| concentrated in the Highlands and Argyll \& Bute. But, this is | ||||
| consistent with all the other categories, Eco-Congregations, Places of | ||||
| Worship, and dtas are all over-represented in this area, varying only by | ||||
| the degree. Edinburgh is different, here we find that Eco-Congregations | ||||
| and Transition projects are over-represented, while dtass are | ||||
| under-represented. Finally, the highlands are another strong contrast, | ||||
| here we find a very strong over-representation by transition towns and | ||||
| dtass while the representation of Eco-Congregations is relatively close | ||||
| to the population share for that area. The two areas of greatest | ||||
| contrast for Eco-Congregations from the other groups are unsurprising, | ||||
| Edinburgh is the location of the ECS offices, while Stirling is the area | ||||
| in which ECS first began (see Appendix B for full data). | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| \hypertarget{christian-denominations}{% | ||||
| \section{Christian Denominations}\label{christian-denominations}} | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Eco-Congregation Scotland describes itself as an ``ecumenical movement | ||||
| helping local groups of Christians link environmental issues to their | ||||
| faith, reduce their environmental impact and engage with their local | ||||
| community.'' There are several ties to the Church of Scotland, as the | ||||
| denomination provides office space to Eco-Congregation Scotland in the | ||||
| Church of Scotland complex at 121 George Street in Edinburgh and | ||||
| provides funding for one full-time member of staff. In spite of this, | ||||
| ECS has, from the start, attempted to emphasise its ecumenical | ||||
| aspirations and this is reflected in a wide variety of ways. The name | ||||
| ``eco-congregation'' is meant to be tradition neutral (in interviews, | ||||
| staff noted how they have sought to avoid names such as ``eco-kirk'' | ||||
| which would be the more obvious Presbyterian title, or ``eco-community'' | ||||
| or ``eco-church'' which might indicate allegiance towards another). | ||||
| Further, the group has a environmental chaplain on their staff whose | ||||
| position is funded by the United Reformed Church, and other members of | ||||
| staff are funded by the Scottish government, and as such, carry no | ||||
| formal affiliation with a religious institution. This diversity and | ||||
| ecumenicism is reflected in a membership which is, though dominated by | ||||
| the Church of Scotland, nevertheless, made up of a range of Christian | ||||
| traditions. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Though these are not numerically significant, it is important to note | ||||
| that some member congregations describe themselves as ecumenical | ||||
| communities, and others are hybrids reflecting the merging of two | ||||
| traditions. As this ecumenical/hybrid designation involves a small | ||||
| number of the overall total, for the sake of this research, these have | ||||
| been combined into a category called ``ecumenical.'' Further, as | ||||
| research conducted by Church of Scotland statistician Fiona Tweedie has | ||||
| shown, in many Scottish communities with only one church, members of | ||||
| this church will specify their denominational affiliation in a variety | ||||
| of ways (Roman Catholic, Quaker, Methodist, etc.) even though the church | ||||
| and its minister are formally affiliated with the Church of | ||||
| Scotland.\footnote{Fiona Tweedia, \emph{Ecumenical Audit: Questionnaire | ||||
|   Findings} (2014).} So, we should be careful not to assume that the | ||||
| various denominational affiliations of eco-congregations are indicative | ||||
| in an absolute way. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| A wide variety of historians and sociologists of religion have noted the | ||||
| regional significance of different Christian denominations in Scotland | ||||
| so we sought to assess the relative distribution and concentration of | ||||
| eco-congregations by denomination. Finding comparative statistics is a | ||||
| complex task, made more complicated by several factors. First, most | ||||
| demographic data on religious belonging in Scotland comes in the form of | ||||
| the 2011 census and as such is far more atomised than this data-set | ||||
| which identifies groups at the level of ``congregations'' rather than | ||||
| individuals. Equating these two is also complex, as participation by | ||||
| members of congregations can be measured in a variety of ways, there are | ||||
| often a small number of active participants in each eco-congregation | ||||
| group, but may also be a large scale, but passive, support by the wider | ||||
| community. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| So why provide this kind of data (i.e.~at the level of individual | ||||
| churches) when more granular data (i.e.~at the level of individuals | ||||
| persons) is available in the form of the census and related parallel | ||||
| publications such as the 2008 Scottish Environmental Attitudes survey? | ||||
| We believe that mapping places of worship provides a useful intermediate | ||||
| level of analysis and may complement our more atomised understanding of | ||||
| EA which has been assessed at the level of individual persons to date. | ||||
| Because representation within some administrative areas of Scotland, can | ||||
| lead to a small number of data points, we have kept analysis to a | ||||
| National level and have not provided more specific administrative-area | ||||
| level calculations. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| \begin{longtable}[]{@{}lr@{}} | ||||
| \caption{ECS by denomination}\tabularnewline | ||||
| \toprule | ||||
| & x\tabularnewline | ||||
| \midrule | ||||
| \endfirsthead | ||||
| \toprule | ||||
| & x\tabularnewline | ||||
| \midrule | ||||
| \endhead | ||||
| Baptist & 4\tabularnewline | ||||
| C of S & 254\tabularnewline | ||||
| C of S / URC & 3\tabularnewline | ||||
| Cong & 1\tabularnewline | ||||
| Ecu & 5\tabularnewline | ||||
| FCS & 1\tabularnewline | ||||
| Independent & 2\tabularnewline | ||||
| Meth & 4\tabularnewline | ||||
| Non. & 1\tabularnewline | ||||
| Quaker & 1\tabularnewline | ||||
| RC & 15\tabularnewline | ||||
| SEC & 41\tabularnewline | ||||
| Unitarian & 1\tabularnewline | ||||
| URC & 11\tabularnewline | ||||
| \bottomrule | ||||
| \end{longtable} | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| As one might expect, there is a strong representation of the Church of | ||||
| Scotland, almost 74\% of eco-congregations, with this number remaining | ||||
| the same when we only count awarded sites. We can confirm, on the basis | ||||
| of this analysis that ECS has a disproportional representation by Church | ||||
| of Scotland churches. At the 2002 church census count, it only | ||||
| represented 40.20\% of Scottish churches (1666 of 4144 total churches). | ||||
| Similarly, on the 2011 Scottish census, only 32.44\% of persons claimed | ||||
| to be members of the Church of Scotland. We can adjust this | ||||
| representation to 60\%, if one excludes the 2,445,204 persons (46\% of | ||||
| the total on the census) who reported either ``no religion'' or | ||||
| adherence to a religious tradition not currently represented among the | ||||
| eco-congregation sites. There is a slight over-representation by the | ||||
| United Reformed church, though this seems considerably more dramatic | ||||
| when one takes into account the fact that this is a trebling or more of | ||||
| their overall share of Scottish churches. The URC makes up only sightly | ||||
| more than 1\% of church buildings in Scotland and a tiny 0.04\% of | ||||
| respondents to the 2011 census. The Scottish Episcopal church hovers | ||||
| right around a proportional representation within ECS. More concerning | ||||
| are the significant underrepresentation by Roman Catholic churches, | ||||
| Baptists, the Free Church of Scotland, and other independent churches. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| While Roman Catholic churches make up just over 10\% of the church | ||||
| buildings in Scotland, less than 5\% of churches registered as | ||||
| eco-congregations are RC. Even more dramatic is the quartering of | ||||
| baptist churches, and the non-existent representation among the | ||||
| significant group of independent churches and small denominations. These | ||||
| make up nearly 25\% of all Scottish churches (over a thousand) and yet | ||||
| only 4 have registered as eco-congregations. We provide several | ||||
| tentative advisories in response to these under-representations in the | ||||
| final section of this paper. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| \hypertarget{eco-congregations-urban-rural-and-remote}{% | ||||
| \section{Eco-Congregations, Urban, Rural and | ||||
| Remote}\label{eco-congregations-urban-rural-and-remote}} | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| \begin{verbatim} | ||||
| ## OGR data source with driver: ESRI Shapefile  | ||||
| ## Source: "/Users/jeremy/gits/mapping_environmental_action/data", layer: "SG_UrbanRural_2016" | ||||
| ## with 8 features | ||||
| ## It has 6 fields | ||||
| \end{verbatim} | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Rather than bifurcate congregations into an urban/rural dichotomy, for | ||||
| this study we used the Scottish Government's six-point remoteness scale | ||||
| to categorise eco-congregations along a spectrum of highly populated to | ||||
| remote areas. This 8-fold scale (calculated biennially) offers a more | ||||
| nuanced measurement that combines measurements of remoteness and | ||||
| population along the following lines: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| \begin{enumerate} | ||||
| \def\labelenumi{\arabic{enumi}.} | ||||
| \tightlist | ||||
| \item | ||||
|   Large Urban Areas - Settlements of over 125,000 people. | ||||
| \item | ||||
|   Other Urban Areas - Settlements of 10,000 to 125,000 people. | ||||
| \item | ||||
|   Accessible Small Towns - Settlements of between 3,000 and 10,000 | ||||
|   people, and within a 30 minute drive time of a Settlement of 10,000 or | ||||
|   more. | ||||
| \item | ||||
|   Remote Small Towns - Settlements of between 3,000 and 10,000 people, | ||||
|   and with a drive time between 30 and 60 minutes to a Settlement of | ||||
|   10,000 or more. | ||||
| \item | ||||
|   Very Remote Small Towns - Settlements of between 3,000 and 10,000 | ||||
|   people, and with a drive time of over 60 minutes to a Settlement of | ||||
|   10,000 or more. | ||||
| \item | ||||
|   Accessible Rural Areas - Areas with a population of less than 3,000 | ||||
|   people, and within a drive time of 30 minutes to a Settlement of | ||||
|   10,000 or more. | ||||
| \item | ||||
|   Remote Rural Areas - Areas with a population of less than 3,000 | ||||
|   people, and with a drive time of between 30 and 60 minutes to a | ||||
|   Settlement of 10,000 or more. | ||||
| \item | ||||
|   Very Remote Rural Areas - Areas with a population of less than 3,000 | ||||
|   people, and with a drive time of over 60 minutes to a Settlement of | ||||
|   10,000 or more. | ||||
| \end{enumerate} | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| The key question which this analysis seeks to answer is whether ECS, or | ||||
| the other groups surveyed, are more concentrated in Urban or Rural | ||||
| areas, so as is the case below with our analysis of deprivation, we are | ||||
| concerned with the outer conditions, i.e.~the urban areas (items 1-2) | ||||
| and remote areas (items 7-8). | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Of all the groups surveyed in this study, Eco-Congregation Scotland is | ||||
| the most heavily concentrated in large urban areas (33.53\%), exceeding | ||||
| by almost 50\% the rate for all places of worship (22.96\% in large | ||||
| urban areas). Transition is a much more modest 20\% and development | ||||
| trusts a bit lower at 15\%. It is interesting to note that the rate of | ||||
| ECS concentration in these large urban areas matches the level of | ||||
| overall population distribution (34.5\%). On the other end of the scale, | ||||
| Eco-Congregation Scotland is the least concentrated in remote rural | ||||
| areas (with 3.93\% on level 7 and 5.44\% on level 8 on the urban-rural | ||||
| scale), though again, they correlate roughly to the general population | ||||
| distribution (3.2\% and 2.9\% respectively). Places of worship outpace | ||||
| both the population of Scotland and the footprint of Eco-Congregation | ||||
| Scotland, with 14.98\% in very remote rural areas, but this is exceeded | ||||
| by transition at 16.47\% and both by Scottish community development | ||||
| trusts at 32.14\%. So while Eco-Congregation Scotland correlates roughly | ||||
| with Scottish population distribution across the urban-rural scale, it | ||||
| has a considerably more urban profile than either of the other two | ||||
| groups surveyed. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| \includegraphics{figures/create_ur_barplot-1.pdf} | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| \begin{figure} | ||||
| \centering | ||||
| \includegraphics{figures/create_urbanrural_ecs_chart_choropleth-1.pdf} | ||||
| \caption{Figure 9} | ||||
| \end{figure} | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| \hypertarget{wealth-employment-and-literacy}{% | ||||
| \section{Wealth, Employment, and | ||||
| Literacy}\label{wealth-employment-and-literacy}} | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| \begin{verbatim} | ||||
| ## OGR data source with driver: ESRI Shapefile  | ||||
| ## Source: "/Users/jeremy/gits/mapping_environmental_action/data", layer: "sc_dz_11" | ||||
| ## with 6976 features | ||||
| ## It has 9 fields | ||||
| \end{verbatim} | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| \includegraphics{figures/create_simd_barplot-1.pdf} | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Another crucial point of assessment relates to the relation of | ||||
| Eco-Congregation communities to the Scottish Index of Multiple | ||||
| Deprivation. This instrument aggregates a large variety of factors which | ||||
| can lead to deprivation including crime rates, employment levels, access | ||||
| to services (implicating remoteness), and literacy. By assessing ECS, | ||||
| Transition, and dtas against the deprivation scale, we can assess | ||||
| whether eco-congregations fall within particular demographics and also | ||||
| whether the fully aggregated SIMD measurement provides a useful point of | ||||
| comparison for our purposes. The SIMD essentially divides Scotland into | ||||
| 6407 geographic zones and then ranks them based on their relative | ||||
| deprivation. This data set can be split into any number of groups, but | ||||
| for our purposes we have settled on Quintiles, splitting the SIMD data | ||||
| set at every 1302 entries. We then measured where each transition group, | ||||
| ECS, and dtas fell within these zones and calculated how they fell into | ||||
| these five quintiles, from more to least deprived. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| The first, and most compelling finding is that, in general | ||||
| Eco-Congregation Scotland and Transition Scotland are both roughly the | ||||
| same and match the level of population distribution in the lowest | ||||
| quintile of the general SIMD measurement. 8\% of transition groups and | ||||
| eco-congregation groups which have received awards and 9\% of the | ||||
| population are located within this quintile. However, taken in relation | ||||
| to the distribution of places of worship in the lowest quintile, we find | ||||
| that eco-congregations are located at half the rate that places of | ||||
| worship are (15\%) and dtass match this much more closely at 14\%. | ||||
| Turning towards the top quintile, this pattern also holds, here both | ||||
| transition groups (21\%) and eco-congregations (21\% and 29\% of awarded | ||||
| congregations) depart from the population distribution in this upper | ||||
| quintile (which is 10\%). Again, general places of worship (at 11\%) and | ||||
| DTASs (at 5\%) take the opposite direction. We can say decisively that | ||||
| in communities which have been identified as good candidates for | ||||
| intervention to reduce deprivation, ECS and Transition are less likely, | ||||
| and they are over-represented at the areas which fall into the least | ||||
| deprived quintile. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| We can find divergence between transition communities and | ||||
| eco-congregation when we split out SIMD domains. In the lowest quartile, | ||||
| measuring exclusively for the income domain, ECS is more represented | ||||
| (11\%) - roughly the same as DTAS (12\%), and transition is less (6\%) | ||||
| represented. In general (as shown on the chart in Appendix D), these | ||||
| trends hold when representation of our groups are measured within other | ||||
| non-remoteness domains of the SIMD. Our basic conclusion is that | ||||
| transition towns are least likely to operate within the lowest quartile | ||||
| of SIMD and DTASs are most likely, with ECS somewhere in the middle. | ||||
| Given the general disparity against the presence of places of worship, | ||||
| it seems fair to suggest that this might be an area for improvement, | ||||
| perhaps even worth developing a special programme which might target | ||||
| areas in SIMD quartile 1 for eco-congregation outreach. This might be | ||||
| considered particularly in light of the starkest underrepresentation of | ||||
| ECS and transition within the SIMD domain of education, skills, and | ||||
| training. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| \begin{verbatim} | ||||
| ## Reading layer `SSSI_SCOTLAND' from data source `/Users/jeremy/gits/mapping_environmental_action/data/SSSI_SCOTLAND.shp' using driver `ESRI Shapefile' | ||||
| ## Simple feature collection with 15872 features and 7 fields | ||||
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| ## dimension:      XY | ||||
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| \end{verbatim} | ||||
| 
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| \begin{verbatim} | ||||
| ## Reading layer `WILDLAND_SCOTLAND' from data source `/Users/jeremy/gits/mapping_environmental_action/data/WILDLAND_SCOTLAND.shp' using driver `ESRI Shapefile' | ||||
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| \end{verbatim} | ||||
| 
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| \begin{verbatim} | ||||
| ## Reading layer `National_Forest_Inventory_Woodland_Scotland_2017' from data source `/Users/jeremy/gits/mapping_environmental_action/data/National_Forest_Inventory_Woodland_Scotland_2017.shp' using driver `ESRI Shapefile' | ||||
| ## Simple feature collection with 199698 features and 7 fields | ||||
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| ## dimension:      XY | ||||
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| \end{verbatim} | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| \hypertarget{proximity-to-wilderness}{% | ||||
| \section{Proximity to ``Wilderness''}\label{proximity-to-wilderness}} | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Chasing down a curiosity, I decided to try and calculate whether | ||||
| proximity to ``wilderness'' or ``scenic nature'' or just trees might | ||||
| have some impact on generating more mobilised communities. I realised | ||||
| that there would be several problems with this kind of calculation up | ||||
| front, first being that ``nature'' is a deeply problematic construct, | ||||
| reviled by geographers and philosophers alike. With this in mind, I | ||||
| identified several different ways of reckoning wilderness, starting with | ||||
| the highly anachronistic ``Scenic Land'' designation from the 1970s. | ||||
| Then I pursued the more carefully calculated ``core wild areas'' | ||||
| generated by SNH just a few years ago. However, even the core wile areas | ||||
| concept has been criticised heavily, so I also expanded out my search to | ||||
| include all sites of special scientific interest and then went even | ||||
| wider to include the Scottish Forestry Service's ``Native Woodland'' and | ||||
| finally, the most generic possible measurement, any land identified as | ||||
| forested at the last Forest Inventory. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Proximity to these areas was the next concern, because many of these | ||||
| designations deliberately exclude human habitat, so it was necessary to | ||||
| measure the number of sites within proximity. There is a question which | ||||
| lies here regarding aesthetics, namely, what sort of proximity might | ||||
| generate an affective connection? From my own experience, I decided upon | ||||
| the distance represented by a short walk, i.e.~a half-kilometre. | ||||
| However, with the more generic measurements, such as SSSI and | ||||
| forestation, this wouldn't do, as there are so many of these sites that | ||||
| a buffer of 500 meters encapsulates almost all of inhabited Scotland. So | ||||
| for these sites I also calculated a count within 50 metres. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| So what did I discover? The results were inconclusive. First, it is | ||||
| important to note that on the whole, Eco-Congregations tend to be more | ||||
| urban than place of worship taken generally at a rate of nearly 3:1 | ||||
| (5.4\% of Eco-Congregations lie in areas currently designated as ``Very | ||||
| Remote Rural Areas'' whereas nearly 15\% of places of worship lie in | ||||
| these areas), so what I was testing for was whether this gap was smaller | ||||
| when specifying these various forms of ``wild'' remoteness. For our | ||||
| narrowest measurements, there were so few sites captured as to render | ||||
| measurement unreliable. There are, for obvious reasons, 0 sites located | ||||
| within any of SNG's core wild areas. Similarly, there are very few of | ||||
| our activist communities located within SSSI's (only | ||||
| \texttt{st\_within(pow\_pointX\_sf,\ sssi)} places of worship out of | ||||
| over 4k, 2 transition towns, (or 2\%) and 7 community development trusts | ||||
| (3\%)). However, expanding this out makes things a bit more interesting, | ||||
| within 50 metres of SSSI's in Scotland lie | ||||
| \texttt{st\_within(ecs\_sf,\ st\_buffer(sssi,\ dist\ =\ 50))} | ||||
| Eco-Congregations (or just under 1\%), which compares favourably with | ||||
| the | ||||
| \texttt{st\_within(pow\_pointX\_sf,\ st\_buffer(sssi,\ dist\ =\ 50))} | ||||
| places of worship (or just 1.5\%) far exceeding our ratio (1:1.5 | ||||
| vs.~1:3). This is the same with our more anachronistic measure of | ||||
| ``scenic areas,'' there are 7 eco-congregations within these areas, and | ||||
| 175 places of worship, making for a ratio of nearly 1:2 (2.1\% | ||||
| vs.~4.3\%). Taking our final measure, of forested areas, this is hard to | ||||
| calculate, as only one Eco-Congregation lies within either native or | ||||
| generally forested land. | ||||
| 
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| \begin{verbatim} | ||||
| ## [1]  0  3 59 | ||||
| \end{verbatim} | ||||
| 
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| \begin{verbatim} | ||||
| ## [1]   7  62 610 | ||||
| \end{verbatim} | ||||
| 
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| \includegraphics{figures/wilderness_plots-1.pdf} | ||||
| \includegraphics{figures/wilderness_plots-2.pdf} | ||||
| 
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| \hypertarget{appendix-a}{% | ||||
| \section{Appendix A}\label{appendix-a}} | ||||
| 
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| \hypertarget{appendix-b}{% | ||||
| \section{Appendix B}\label{appendix-b}} | ||||
| 
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| (JK note to self: same as above, but augmented with multipliers by which | ||||
| categories are different from one another) | ||||
| 
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| \hypertarget{appendix-c---data-by-urban-rural-classification}{% | ||||
| \section{Appendix C - Data by Urban / Rural | ||||
| Classification}\label{appendix-c---data-by-urban-rural-classification}} | ||||
| 
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| \renewcommand\refname{Citations} | ||||
| \bibliography{biblio.bib} | ||||
| 
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| 
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| \end{document} | ||||
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| # STAGE 3a, calculate sums based on SIMD12R columns and generate new integer sets with quintile count data | ||||
| simd_rownames = c("Quintile 1","Quintile 2","Quintile 3","Quintile 4","Quintile 5") | ||||
| simdr12_ecs = c((sum(ecs_clean$SIMDR12<1301)), (sum(ecs_clean$SIMDR12 > 1300 & ecs_clean$SIMDR12 < 2602)), (sum(ecs_clean$SIMDR12 > 2601 & ecs_clean$SIMDR12 < 3903)), (sum(ecs_clean$SIMDR12 > 3902 & ecs_clean$SIMDR12 < 5204)), (sum(ecs_clean$SIMDR12 > 5203 & ecs_clean$SIMDR12 < 6505))) | ||||
| # names(simdr12_ecs) <- simd_rownames | ||||
| simdr12_transition = c((sum(transition_clean$SIMDR12<1301)), (sum(transition_clean$SIMDR12 > 1300 & transition_clean$SIMDR12 < 2602)), (sum(transition_clean$SIMDR12 > 2601 & transition_clean$SIMDR12 < 3903)), (sum(transition_clean$SIMDR12 > 3902 & transition_clean$SIMDR12 < 5204)), (sum(transition_clean$SIMDR12 > 5203 & transition_clean$SIMDR12 < 6505))) | ||||
| # names(simdr12_transition) <- simd_rownames | ||||
| simdr12_permaculture = c((sum(permaculture_clean$SIMDR12<1301)), (sum(permaculture_clean$SIMDR12 > 1300 & permaculture_clean$SIMDR12 < 2602)), (sum(permaculture_clean$SIMDR12 > 2601 & permaculture_clean$SIMDR12 < 3903)), (sum(permaculture_clean$SIMDR12 > 3902 & permaculture_clean$SIMDR12 < 5204)), (sum(permaculture_clean$SIMDR12 > 5203 & permaculture_clean$SIMDR12 < 6505))) | ||||
| # names(simdr12_permaculture) <- simd_rownames | ||||
| simdr12_dtas = c((sum(dtas_clean$SIMDR12<1301)), (sum(dtas_clean$SIMDR12 > 1300 & dtas_clean$SIMDR12 < 2602)), (sum(dtas_clean$SIMDR12 > 2601 & dtas_clean$SIMDR12 < 3903)), (sum(dtas_clean$SIMDR12 > 3902 & dtas_clean$SIMDR12 < 5204)), (sum(dtas_clean$SIMDR12 > 5203 & dtas_clean$SIMDR12 < 6505))) | ||||
| # names(simdr12_dtas) <- simd_rownames | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| # STAGE 3b, calculate sums based on INCR12 columns and generate new integer sets with quintile count data | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| incr12_ecs = c((sum(ecs_clean$INCR12<1301)), (sum(ecs_clean$INCR12 > 1300 & ecs_clean$INCR12 < 2602)), (sum(ecs_clean$INCR12 > 2601 & ecs_clean$INCR12 < 3903)), (sum(ecs_clean$INCR12 > 3902 & ecs_clean$INCR12 < 5204)), (sum(ecs_clean$INCR12 > 5203 & ecs_clean$INCR12 < 6505))) | ||||
| incr12_transition = c((sum(transition_clean$INCR12<1301)), (sum(transition_clean$INCR12 > 1300 & transition_clean$INCR12 < 2602)), (sum(transition_clean$INCR12 > 2601 & transition_clean$INCR12 < 3903)), (sum(transition_clean$INCR12 > 3902 & transition_clean$INCR12 < 5204)), (sum(transition_clean$INCR12 > 5203 & transition_clean$INCR12 < 6505))) | ||||
| incr12_permaculture = c((sum(permaculture_clean$INCR12<1301)), (sum(permaculture_clean$INCR12 > 1300 & permaculture_clean$INCR12 < 2602)), (sum(permaculture_clean$INCR12 > 2601 & permaculture_clean$INCR12 < 3903)), (sum(permaculture_clean$INCR12 > 3902 & permaculture_clean$INCR12 < 5204)), (sum(permaculture_clean$INCR12 > 5203 & permaculture_clean$INCR12 < 6505))) | ||||
| incr12_dtas = c((sum(dtas_clean$INCR12<1301)), (sum(dtas_clean$INCR12 > 1300 & dtas_clean$INCR12 < 2602)), (sum(dtas_clean$INCR12 > 2601 & dtas_clean$INCR12 < 3903)), (sum(dtas_clean$INCR12 > 3902 & dtas_clean$INCR12 < 5204)), (sum(dtas_clean$INCR12 > 5203 & dtas_clean$INCR12 < 6505))) | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| # STAGE 3c, calculate sums based on EMPR12 columns and generate new integer sets with quintile count data | ||||
| empr12_ecs = c((sum(ecs_clean$EMPR12<1301)), (sum(ecs_clean$EMPR12 > 1300 & ecs_clean$EMPR12 < 2602)), (sum(ecs_clean$EMPR12 > 2601 & ecs_clean$EMPR12 < 3903)), (sum(ecs_clean$EMPR12 > 3902 & ecs_clean$EMPR12 < 5204)), (sum(ecs_clean$EMPR12 > 5203 & ecs_clean$EMPR12 < 6505))) | ||||
| empr12_transition = c((sum(transition_clean$EMPR12<1301)), (sum(transition_clean$EMPR12 > 1300 & transition_clean$EMPR12 < 2602)), (sum(transition_clean$EMPR12 > 2601 & transition_clean$EMPR12 < 3903)), (sum(transition_clean$EMPR12 > 3902 & transition_clean$EMPR12 < 5204)), (sum(transition_clean$EMPR12 > 5203 & transition_clean$EMPR12 < 6505))) | ||||
| empr12_permaculture = c((sum(permaculture_clean$EMPR12<1301)), (sum(permaculture_clean$EMPR12 > 1300 & permaculture_clean$EMPR12 < 2602)), (sum(permaculture_clean$EMPR12 > 2601 & permaculture_clean$EMPR12 < 3903)), (sum(permaculture_clean$EMPR12 > 3902 & permaculture_clean$EMPR12 < 5204)), (sum(permaculture_clean$EMPR12 > 5203 & permaculture_clean$EMPR12 < 6505))) | ||||
| empr12_dtas = c((sum(dtas_clean$EMPR12<1301)), (sum(dtas_clean$EMPR12 > 1300 & dtas_clean$EMPR12 < 2602)), (sum(dtas_clean$EMPR12 > 2601 & dtas_clean$EMPR12 < 3903)), (sum(dtas_clean$EMPR12 > 3902 & dtas_clean$EMPR12 < 5204)), (sum(dtas_clean$EMPR12 > 5203 & dtas_clean$EMPR12 < 6505))) | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| # STAGE 3d, calculate sums based on HER12 columns and generate new integer sets with quintile count data | ||||
| her12_ecs = c((sum(ecs_clean$HER12<1301)), (sum(ecs_clean$HER12 > 1300 & ecs_clean$HER12 < 2602)), (sum(ecs_clean$HER12 > 2601 & ecs_clean$HER12 < 3903)), (sum(ecs_clean$HER12 > 3902 & ecs_clean$HER12 < 5204)), (sum(ecs_clean$HER12 > 5203 & ecs_clean$HER12 < 6505))) | ||||
| her12_transition = c((sum(transition_clean$HER12<1301)), (sum(transition_clean$HER12 > 1300 & transition_clean$HER12 < 2602)), (sum(transition_clean$HER12 > 2601 & transition_clean$HER12 < 3903)), (sum(transition_clean$HER12 > 3902 & transition_clean$HER12 < 5204)), (sum(transition_clean$HER12 > 5203 & transition_clean$HER12 < 6505))) | ||||
| her12_permaculture = c((sum(permaculture_clean$HER12<1301)), (sum(permaculture_clean$HER12 > 1300 & permaculture_clean$HER12 < 2602)), (sum(permaculture_clean$HER12 > 2601 & permaculture_clean$HER12 < 3903)), (sum(permaculture_clean$HER12 > 3902 & permaculture_clean$HER12 < 5204)), (sum(permaculture_clean$HER12 > 5203 & permaculture_clean$HER12 < 6505))) | ||||
| her12_dtas = c((sum(dtas_clean$HER12<1301)), (sum(dtas_clean$HER12 > 1300 & dtas_clean$HER12 < 2602)), (sum(dtas_clean$HER12 > 2601 & dtas_clean$HER12 < 3903)), (sum(dtas_clean$HER12 > 3902 & dtas_clean$HER12 < 5204)), (sum(dtas_clean$HER12 > 5203 & dtas_clean$HER12 < 6505))) | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| # STAGE 3e, calculate sums based on ESTR12 columns and generate new integer sets with quintile count data | ||||
| estr12_ecs = c((sum(ecs_clean$ESTR12<1301)), (sum(ecs_clean$ESTR12 > 1300 & ecs_clean$ESTR12 < 2602)), (sum(ecs_clean$ESTR12 > 2601 & ecs_clean$ESTR12 < 3903)), (sum(ecs_clean$ESTR12 > 3902 & ecs_clean$ESTR12 < 5204)), (sum(ecs_clean$ESTR12 > 5203 & ecs_clean$ESTR12 < 6505))) | ||||
| estr12_transition = c((sum(transition_clean$ESTR12<1301)), (sum(transition_clean$ESTR12 > 1300 & transition_clean$ESTR12 < 2602)), (sum(transition_clean$ESTR12 > 2601 & transition_clean$ESTR12 < 3903)), (sum(transition_clean$ESTR12 > 3902 & transition_clean$ESTR12 < 5204)), (sum(transition_clean$ESTR12 > 5203 & transition_clean$ESTR12 < 6505))) | ||||
| estr12_permaculture = c((sum(permaculture_clean$ESTR12<1301)), (sum(permaculture_clean$ESTR12 > 1300 & permaculture_clean$ESTR12 < 2602)), (sum(permaculture_clean$ESTR12 > 2601 & permaculture_clean$ESTR12 < 3903)), (sum(permaculture_clean$ESTR12 > 3902 & permaculture_clean$ESTR12 < 5204)), (sum(permaculture_clean$ESTR12 > 5203 & permaculture_clean$ESTR12 < 6505))) | ||||
| estr12_dtas = c((sum(dtas_clean$ESTR12<1301)), (sum(dtas_clean$ESTR12 > 1300 & dtas_clean$ESTR12 < 2602)), (sum(dtas_clean$ESTR12 > 2601 & dtas_clean$ESTR12 < 3903)), (sum(dtas_clean$ESTR12 > 3902 & dtas_clean$ESTR12 < 5204)), (sum(dtas_clean$ESTR12 > 5203 & dtas_clean$ESTR12 < 6505))) | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| # STAGE 4a - calculate percentages | ||||
| simdr12_ecs_percent<- prop.table(simdr12_ecs) | ||||
| simdr12_transition_percent<- prop.table(simdr12_transition) | ||||
| simdr12_permaculture_percent<- prop.table(simdr12_permaculture) | ||||
| simdr12_dtas_percent<- prop.table(simdr12_dtas) | ||||
| incr12_ecs_percent<- prop.table(incr12_ecs) | ||||
| incr12_transition_percent<- prop.table(incr12_transition) | ||||
| incr12_permaculture_percent<- prop.table(incr12_permaculture) | ||||
| incr12_dtas_percent<- prop.table(incr12_dtas) | ||||
| empr12_ecs_percent<- prop.table(empr12_ecs) | ||||
| empr12_transition_percent<- prop.table(empr12_transition) | ||||
| empr12_permaculture_percent<- prop.table(empr12_permaculture) | ||||
| empr12_dtas_percent<- prop.table(empr12_dtas) | ||||
| her12_ecs_percent<- prop.table(her12_ecs) | ||||
| her12_transition_percent<- prop.table(her12_transition) | ||||
| her12_permaculture_percent<- prop.table(her12_permaculture) | ||||
| her12_dtas_percent<- prop.table(her12_dtas) | ||||
| estr12_ecs_percent<- prop.table(estr12_ecs) | ||||
| estr12_transition_percent<- prop.table(estr12_transition) | ||||
| estr12_permaculture_percent<- prop.table(estr12_permaculture) | ||||
| estr12_dtas_percent<- prop.table(estr12_dtas) | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| # STAGE 4b, generate data frame using integer sets | ||||
| simd = data.frame(simdr12_ecs, simdr12_ecs_percent, incr12_ecs, incr12_ecs_percent, empr12_ecs, empr12_ecs_percent, her12_ecs, her12_ecs_percent, estr12_ecs, estr12_ecs_percent, simdr12_transition, simdr12_transition_percent, incr12_transition, incr12_transition_percent, empr12_transition, empr12_transition_percent, her12_transition, her12_transition_percent, estr12_transition, estr12_transition_percent, simdr12_permaculture, simdr12_permaculture_percent, incr12_permaculture, incr12_permaculture_percent, empr12_permaculture, empr12_permaculture_percent, her12_permaculture, her12_permaculture_percent, estr12_permaculture, estr12_permaculture_percent, simdr12_dtas, simdr12_dtas_percent, incr12_dtas, incr12_dtas_percent, empr12_dtas, empr12_dtas_percent, her12_dtas, her12_dtas_percent, estr12_dtas, estr12_dtas_percent) | ||||
| write.csv(simd, "derivedData/simd.csv", row.names=FALSE) | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| simd_percents_only = data.frame(simd_rownames, simdr12_ecs_percent, incr12_ecs_percent, empr12_ecs_percent, her12_ecs_percent, estr12_ecs_percent, simdr12_transition_percent, incr12_transition_percent, empr12_transition_percent, her12_transition_percent, estr12_transition_percent, simdr12_permaculture_percent, incr12_permaculture_percent, empr12_permaculture_percent, her12_permaculture_percent, estr12_permaculture_percent, simdr12_dtas_percent, incr12_dtas_percent, empr12_dtas_percent, her12_dtas_percent, estr12_dtas_percent) | ||||
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