2017-09-12 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA   12 SEPTEMBER 2017




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SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                               12 SEPTEMBER 2017

                              Community Economic Wellbeing
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              The economic wellbeing of communities is                           C        ity E       ic Wellbeing Ind
              measured by asking survey participants how                          ommunity Economic       Wellbeing Index
              much they agreed with the following four                  g    4
              statements, from 'strongly disagree’ (1) to               : ¥  40
              ‘strongly agree' (7): (i) Living costs are                5 E  39
              affordable here e.g. food, petrol, housing; (ii)          i 3  38
              This community is financially well-off; (iii)             gz z 37
              There are plenty of jobs available around here            “ $3 a6
              at the moment; and (iv) Local businesses in               Es Es.
              this town are doing pretty well at the moment.            52 i
                                                                        Sa   34
              Responses to these four statements were                   £3
              averaged to form a single measure of                      § ;  337
              community economic wellbeing, measured                    F 3  *
              from 1 (low levels of community economic                  4    34
                     .          .                    .                          Rural & regional Australia Rural & regional Queensland Noosa (n=320)
              wellbeing) to 7 (high levels of community                              (n=12981)        (n=1953)
              economic wellbeing).

                                                                      The Community Economic Wellbeing Index is made up from
                                                                      responses to a number of questions, with the results to each
                                                                      question presented below. The questions were measured ona
                                                                      7-point scale, from ‘strongly disagree’ (1) to 'strongly
                                                                      agree' (7), with the results below showing percentages for
                                                                      those who scored 5, 6 or 7 as showing agreement.

                                        Community Economic Wellbeing Questions
                             @ Rural & regional Australia (n=12981) @ Rural & regional Queensland (n=1953) ® Noosa (n=320)
                     0.0,

                                                                     50.3
                     50.0       48.2
                                     43.8
                                           41.8
                   % 40.0
                   E                                                                                         36.3
                  £                                      30.3
                                                            3  29.5                                                 9.4
                  2 30.0 -                                                                                        2     29.1
                   oa
                  sz
                  3
                   2
                  3 20.0
                                                                                   14.0       12.6
                     10.0                                                     if
                      0.0                                                     '                        '
                            Living costs are affordable = This community is financially There are plenty of jobs Local businesses in this town
                                     here                    well-off          available around here atthe are doing pretty well at the
                                                                                       moment                    moment

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