The given table illustrates the proportion of people accessing six aspects of living in the one city as a good, average, or bad in 1980 and 2010.
Overall, it can be clearly seen that education, healthcare, and the environment showed the highest satisfaction of responders, while the transportation ‘good’ results were the lowest.
In terms of 1980, education, healthcare, and the environment rates were dominant with over 80% approving healthcare and the other two had figures of 72%. Under 10% of people thought that these three categories were bad. Meanwhile, employment and shopping rates were almost similar, with 62-64% of surveyors having satisfaction. Similarly, people who rated these aspects as average were 22-24%. Transportation rates were lower than other five aspects, where only 52% thought it was good and roughly a third who believed it was bad.
Turning to 2010, the access to education, healthcare, and the environment remained positive.
However, education rates increased by the end of the period to 82%, replacing healthcare in 1980. Healthcare got only 72% of positive results. Employment rates showed a one-tenth rise, starting from 62%. By contrast, approval to the transport decreased to 38%, where a similar proportion of people ranked it as bad. Finally, the figures of approval for shops and environment both remained relatively unchanged.