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SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA 12 SEPTEMBER 2017
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SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA 12 SEPTEMBER 2017
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Introduction: Noosa did well in response rate
In 2016 the University of Canberra held the Regional Wellbeing Survey for the ninth time. Noosa Council created
the How happy is Noosa? campaign to encourage the community to participate in this survey. The reason Council
became involved was firstly to gauge how the community felt about their personal and the community’s wellbeing.
Secondly, Council was interested in finding where Noosa people felt there were issues in liveability in the shire for
further planning and decision-making processes.
12,891 people from rural and regional Australia took part in the survey, 1,953 from regional Queensland, with
Noosa representing 320 of those responses. Comparable other areas received a response rate of 45 (Sunshine
Coast), and 105 (Gold Coast, Ipswich, Lockyer Valley, Logan, Moreton Bay, Redland, Scenic Rim and Somerset),
showing that Noosa offered a markedly greater response as a result of the How Happy is Noosa? campaign.
To demonstrate the success of the Noosa campaign, we can compare to the Bega Valley Shire in NSW that received
the most results the previous year, with 248 people responding to the survey, while Noosa achieved 320 responses
this year. Bega Valley Shire also invested $3,500 to achieve this result, while Noosa Council spent nothing. We did
good!
Results: Noosa did well in results too!
Results from the University of Canberra were presented as tables of comparison between Noosa’s results and those
of rural and regional Australia, rural and regional Queensland, Southern Coastal Queensland (Gold Coast, Ipswich,
Lockyer Valley, Logan, Moreton Bay, Redland, Scenic Rim and Somerset), and the Sunshine Coast. This document
has been adapted from those results, with focus specifically being on comparisons between the Noosa Shire results
and those of regional Australia and Queensland, as there was little response from and consequently little data from
the Sunshine Coast and Southern Coastal Queensland that is comparable. Data was sourced from the 2016 Regional
Wellbeing Survey, QLD Southern Coastal and Sunshine Coast region data tables, Version 1.01 July 2017. Results
include community responses to survey questions regarding:
° Personal Wellbeing ° Social Connectedness
° Community Wellbeing .
fi . | e Access to Services
° Personal Financial Wellbeing ; ‘
- bier ‘italia! e Crime and Safety Perceptions
. OmMUNIEY economic EEING: e Landscape and Aesthetics
° Health Wellbeing 4 ‘
. . . ° Perceived Environmental Health
° Community Leadership & Collaboration
The results show that Noosa residents’ sense of wellbeing exceeds those of regional Australia and Queensland in
most cases. The only incidence of Noosa falling behind other areas is in our perception of crime and safety. It
should be emphasised that these are perceptions only.
Where to from here?
While the comparisons between Noosa and regional Australia and Queensland are insightful, the value of this data
is in its ability to provide a baseline for further comparisons of Noosa residents’ sense of wellbeing as the survey is
performed annually. It is suggested that these results are used as a mechanism to engage the Noosa community in
participating in the survey again next year and in subsequent years, with numbers of participants growing as
community awareness of the survey grows.
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