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

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              Access to Food and Retail Shops                                                          3
                                                P                              Access to Food and Retail Shops Index
              Access to food and retail shops is measured by             38                                          57
              asking respondents to rate their access to the             a
              following types of services in their local              § 3
              community, on a scale ranging from 'very                3 2 T                                      T
              poor' (1) to 'very good' (7): (i) Fresh fruit and       3 7
              vegetables; (ii) Affordable food; and (iii) Retail      8
              shops. A single measure of overall access to            3 go T                        49
              food and retail was then constructed based on           SE ae
              the average score of a person’s responses to            3 a
              these three items.                                         bg
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                                                                             Rural & regional Australia Rural & regional Queensland Noosa (n=320)
                                                                                 (n=12981)         (n=1953)

                                                                    The categories represented by the Access to Food and Retail
                                                                    Shops Index are presented below. The respondents scored
                                                                    each category on a 7-point scale, from ‘very poor’ (1) to ‘very
                                                                    good’ (7), with the results below showing percentages for
                                                                    those who scored the categories 5, 6 or 7 as showing belief
                                                                    that the services were good.

                                     Access to Food and Retail Shops Categories
                          @ Rural & regional Australia (n=12981) @ Rural & regional Queensland (n=1953) ® Noosa (n=320)
                       100.0                       7 i,
                        90.0 +                                                                                    85:1
                        80.0 +       74.0   72.0
                  3     70.0 +                                                     66.2              —
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                  6 2   600 |                                               SLO
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                  2 8   50.0 |
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                  3 3   40.0 +
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                  2 =   300 +                                                                     ;
                        20.0 +

                        10.0 +

                         0.0 +                                                               1
                                   Fresh fruit and vegetables          Affordable food                  Retail shops

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