Research Brief
Life around Cambridge
Aug 10, 2015
Results from the Cambridge Ahead Quality of Life Survey
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In light of the continuing economic success of the Cambridge area, Cambridge Ahead, a membership organisation of large Cambridge area employers, set up its Quality of Life project to answer the following questions:
This report is an analysis of a survey that RAND Europe conducted in 2014 on the employees of the Cambridge Ahead membership and a small number of other organisations. The survey explored respondents' experiences of local services, and their satisfaction with the local area and with their lives overall. We outline the main findings below:
Chapter One
Introduction
Chapter Two
Local services and issues in the Cambridge area
Chapter Three
Drivers of life and local area satisfaction
Chapter Four
Further areas for examination
Appendix A
Organisations in the sample
Appendix B
Methods
Appendix C
Cambridge Ahead Quality of Life Survey
Appendix D
Survey questions measuring local area and life satisfaction, personal factors, and satisfaction with local services
Appendix E
Location of respondents
Appendix F
Drivers analysis coefficients, confidence intervals and p-values
Appendix G
Variation in satisfaction with local services across different personal characteristics
The research described in this report was prepared for Cambridge Ahead and conducted by RAND Europe.
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