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Assurance
A review of a report's conformity with the Social Value Principles, carried out by an independent assessor who did not write it.
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Attribution
The share of observed change that comes from actors and factors other than the activity being analysed.
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Deadweight
The share of change that would have happened anyway, without the activity.
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Displacement
Change created in one place taking the place of change elsewhere.
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Drop-off
The weakening of an outcome over time; the share subtracted for each year after the first.
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Financial proxy
An approximate equivalent used to place a monetary value on a change that has no market price.