The figures also said: Total public sector spending for the benefit of Scotland by the Scottish and UK governments and other public sector areas was £64.5bn, or 9.3% of total UK public sector expenditure (including a per capita share of UK debt interest payments).
"Many private-sector areas are keenly interested in global warming and climate change, so we're seeing interest from the energy-utility [sectors], agricultural sectors, and transportation sectors," he adds.
The largest single economic sector in the Highland area is tourism.
The public sector, once another big growth area, is being cut in an attempt to balance the books.
The best hope of achieving that is to harness the private sector, and the most promising area is pension reform.
According to one interviewee who works in the public sector, about 20%% of the area is planted with farmer saved seed.
Industrial activity is also an important contributor to outdoor air pollution in parts of Africa, and the type of air quality issues in an affected area is typically sector specific, aside from the effects of long-range transport.
For addresses where the postcode could still not be ascertained in full or the postcode did not link to a ward code, the mean Townsend score for the smallest relevant postcode unit (sector, district or area) was used commensurate with the information available.
Within the outer sectors, the thickest area was the superior (270.1 um), followed by the inferior (268.0 um), nasal (249.9 um), and temporal (244.3 um).
