Survey Results
Question 6:
Next, we'd like you to think about what makes a great place to live. How would you rate the performance of both your community and the whole metropolitan area in dealing with each of these issues?
Respondents were asked to rate both their immediate community and their metro as a whole on a variety of issues. (See Question 6 data for list of issues)
To analyze the results of this data, the percent of respondents selecting “Good” or “Excellent” for each category were added together for the community and for the metro.
The difference between the “Good plus Excellent” total for the Community and the “Good plus Excellent” total for the Metro was taken to get a “disconnection value” for each category.
The sum of these “disconnection values” equals the metro disconnection index — used to measure the difference in the respondents’ perceptions of their communities and their metros.
A score of “0” would indicate no perceived differences between the two, while a higher number indicates that people feel better about their own communities than they do the region.
Denver's low score indicates a stronger sense of regional connection than is found in the Kansas City area. Kansas City’s score of 2.2 was the highest of the peer metros, indicating there is a higher level of disconnection between the communities and the metro.
Community/Metro Disconnection Index
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