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Objective Analysis. Effective Solutions.

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