Our study will use data from UK Data Service and it will be divided in three parts. In part one of our study, -series analysis of the impact of metal prices on metal theft in Great Britain. In part two of our study, we will assess the effectiveness of the policing response to the rise in 2011 in metal theft, i.e., Operation Tornado. In part three of our study, we saudi arabia rcs data will assess the consequences for businesses in Britain of the SMDA 2013, that came into force in October 2013 and that superseded the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 1964. Amongst other things, the SMDA 2013 introduced new provisions for the issuance and revocation of a scrap metal licence, for the verification of scrap metal suppliers’ identities and it introduced the offence of buying scrap metal for cash[1]. We will investigate whether and how this reform affected the economic activity of those businesses in Britain that were directly exposed to it.
To this end, we will use a variety of UK Data Service datasets, such as the Annual Business Survey (ABS), the Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES), the Prices Survey Microdata and the Quarterly Labour Force Survey. I plan to present our preliminary results for this study to academic conferences and, for this, I intend to use the necessary financial support from the UK Data Service Data Impact Fellows Programme.