The tables give information about the results of two studies conducted in 1980 and 2010, questioning six different aspects (education, healthcare, environment, shops and employment) of living in a certain city. They show the proportion of three choices of answers: good, bad and neither.
Overall, in most categories more people were pleased than disgruntled by living standards in the city. However, they were more disappointed with them in 2010, than they were in 1980. The best noted categories were healthcare in 1980 and education in 2010 with 82% rating it positively , and the worst was transport in 2010 with 38% dissatisfied.
The first table illustrates that healthcare, education and environment were well appreciated by people with only 8%, 5% and 6% expressing dissatisfaction respectively. Furthermore, over 60% of citizens thought that shops and employment were satisfactory (64% and 62% in that order) . In contrast 32% were dissatisfied with transport.
The second table shows that education and employment have improved over 30 years. From 72% to 82% of inhabitants contented with education and from 62% to 72% pleased with employment. On the other hand, in other aspects of living, more people thought the conditions were bad in 2010. Both the environment and shops had 16% people unsatisfied compared to 12% and 10% in 1980 respectively. Healthcare was rated negatively by 12%, as opposed to 8% earlier. Transport was similarly the least liked with 38% discontented.