The following two tables illustrate the ratings that were given to seven different aspects of city living (in percentage) under three different categories (good, neither good nor bad, bad) in the year 1980 and 2010.
It is difficult to discern an overall pattern, since the results were pretty mixed after 30 years. Some sectors like education and employment improved their rating by 10% in the good category. On the other hand, transport and healthcare sectors went down, while shops and environment remained approximately same in the good category.
In 1980, the two aspects with the highest percentage were healthcare and education with 82% and 72%, but by 2010 the two had switched positions, with education being on top with 82%. Moving on to environment which remained about the same in the good ratings, but increased by 10% in the bad category and decreased by 9% in the average category.
Shops didn’t change in the average category, but 4% of the people moved from the good to the bad column. Employment experienced a 10% increase in good and 13% increased in the bad column, while its average went down by 17%. lastly, the transport services deteriorated the most in the city with a 13% decline in good ratings and reaching 32%, 38% of the people thought that the transport service was bad, and 23% gave it an average rating.