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"Satisfaction with Council in Edinburgh increases by a third"
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Posted 12 years ago #
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56% of people are satisfied with the maintenance of roads! Really? I know the Council do a lot of good work and don't deserve much of the criticism they get in the EEN and the like, but roads maintenance isn't exactly a strong point.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Morningsider, I just posted a comment on that very point to andrew burns - that one stat shows how flawed this is - and why was I not asked to contribute? I am sure my negativaty would have given some balance too the overall picture.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Maybe they only asked people from Barnton? Huge wide smooth sweeping roads there. The only nice road surfaces I have ever seen in the city.
Posted 12 years ago # -
I'm unsure who they surveyed because a larger than I would expect people were satisfied with their bin collection, given the collections of black bags and full wheelie bins around the place I'd say that wasn't really satisfactory.
Posted 12 years ago # -
% satisfied with:/ Increase on 2011/2012/2011
Delivering good vfm/ 29%+ / 60% / 31%Now if I was a spin-doctor and one year there was 31% satisfied, but the next year there was 60%, I'd be shouting that the increase was 93% - not a measly 29%
Application form off tomorrow morning, I think - this Cooncil needs me!
Posted 12 years ago # -
Without reading the press release, I assume it means satisfaction has skyrocketed from 3 to 4%?
Posted 12 years ago # -
Some details of the methodology are available by searching for "Edinburgh People's Survey". It's not an approach I've seen in any textbook on the subject.
If I did a survey and found that a basic measure like value for money had almost doubled in a single year, without any obvious reason like a dramatic improvement in services or a dramatic decline in council tax, I'd be wondering if some source of significant bias might have influenced the results.
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