The database will make the information collected available to a wider audience and will allow for comparisons of data trends for beaches in different geographical areas.
Equally, comparisons made between sets of data over time may have been slightly influenced by changes in the way Cancer Research or the NHS report their statistics.
The tool is one of the boldest uses so far of the computer-readable "XBRL tags" that are increasingly being attached to financial data around the world to enable easier comparisons between businesses.
Supporting documentation for any claims, comparisons, statistics, or other technical data will be supplied upon request.
It is difficult to make international comparisons as other countries do not have data on a full national scale.
Privately held companies, for whom in most cases only 2004 data were readily available, were valued based on comparisons to prevailing price-to-earnings or price-to-sales ratios for similar publicly traded companies.
The QCDA added that year-on-year comparisons were unreliable because of changes in the way data had been collected.
Nor is there enough data about the economic impact of other diseases to make real comparisons.
Mr McGrigor said there was a "lack of scientific data" the designation was required and he highlighted there had been no thorough comparisons of other potential sites, for instance the Sound of Harris.
The data was recorded for the first time in the Census 2011, so there are no comparisons with previous years.
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