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The Hyperlocal Community Life Survey, 2018 aims to measure the impact of community business in strategic priority areas that have been targeted to grow community businesses. The seven areas included in the research were Abram Ward (Wigan), Manningham (Bradford), Braunstone (Leicester), Nunsthorpe and Bradley Park (Grimsby), Marsh Farm (Luton), Devonport and Stonehouse (Plymouth) and Dyke House (Hartlepool).Community business charity Power to Change commissioned Kantar Public in early 2018 to conduct a ‘hyperlocal’ version of the national Community Life Survey in seven locations in England. These seven make up Power to Change's place-based investment programme, Empowering Places, that targets funding and resources towards places that look ripe for community business with the aim to boost local economies. In each of the seven locations, the survey was undertaken in a specific area, defined as the operational area of a catalyst organisation seeking to increase opportunities to reduce poverty and inequality through community businesses: – Abram Ward Community Charity in Wigan – Action for Business in Bradford – B-inspired in Leicester – Centre4 in North East Lincolnshire – Marsh Farm Futures in Luton – RIO in Plymouth – The Wharton Trust in Hartlepool For the purposes of the survey, each organisation’s operational area was defined with reference to the Office for National Statistics' (ONS) Census Output Area (OA) geography, and was formed of a contiguous combination of whole OAs (the smallest unit in the ONS hierarchy). For analysis, the seven Empowering Places areas were compared with a comparison group constructed for each area from within the national Community Life Survey.Further information about the Power to Change Research Institute can be found on their webpages.
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Topics include: social isolation, health and wellbeing, employment, local environment, community cohesion, social action and civic engagement.
Multi-stage stratified random sample
Self-administered questionnaire: E-mail
