Your intensity metrics are details about your business you can scale your data by, such as number of employees, annual revenue, sq. footage etc.
Managing Intensity Metrics
To view and manage your existing intensity metrics navigate to the Data page and select the Intensity Metrics tab.
Creating New
Within your Intensity Metrics page select the Add New Button
Once the modal pops up you can select from the pre-existing list of intensity metrics or create a custom intensity metric
Enter your own name, or leave it pre-populated with the template name
Click Save
Aggregate Type
Total: Total aggregate type means that when looking at period totals we sum up all of the monthly values. This works well for intensity metrics like emissions per unit of revenue or per unit of production.
Average: This means that we take the average of all of the values over the course of the period when doing aggregates. This works well for intensity metrics like emissions per employee where you want the average number of employees over the course of the year.
Editing
To edit an existing intensity metric navigate to the Intensity Metrics tab in your Sources page
Select the pencil icon beside the intensity metric you would like to modify
Edit either the name or the description
Click Save
Adding data to your intensity metrics
To add data to an existing intensity metric navigate to the Intensity Metrics tab in your Sources page
Select the Add Data button on the intensity metric
Select which year you would like to add data for
Enter your data
Click Save
Where intensity metrics are used
Intensity metrics are used within two areas of the app:
Targets
Benchmarks
Intensity metrics allow you to scale your data by a selected data point such as total employees or total revenue.
If a benchmark is an intensity type your data will be scaled by the intensity metric associated with that benchmark.