Image: IWAI’s 2021 product impact dataset included a quantification of products’ presumed impact on their consumers’ health through assessing their nutritional content.
In 2021 the Impact Weighted Accounts Initiative (IWAI) released a dataset using companies’ real financial accounts and showing how numbers would change if their theorised “monetised product impacts” were overlayed on them.
The dataset included the following IWAI-authored “fields” which were described in this methodology document.
| Column name (in dataset) | Column name (readable) |
| Affordability_Calculated | Affordability product impact |
| Underserved_Calculated | Underserved product impact |
| Effectiveness_Calculated | Effectiveness product impact |
| Addiction_Calculated | Addiction product impact |
| Pollutants_Calculated | Pollutants product impact |
| Recycling_Calculated | Recycling product impact |
Data Manifest
| Dataset | Product impact dataset |
|---|---|
| Author | Impact Weighted Accounts Initiative (IWAI) |
| Data Date | Compiled and released in 2021 |
| Format | CSV |
| Filesize | 12.4 KiB (edited version) |
| Data Dictionary? | Yes. See below. |
| Data Details | 124 rows, 12 columns (including header row) |
| Notes | This dataset is a modified copy of the original data released by IWAI. It has been edited only for ingress into data visualisation software (the original release was an .xlsx) |
| Download Link | https://impactdatabase.org/ wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IWAI_Product_Impact_Data_2021.csv |
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