Step-by-step: Select a question

Step 2. Choose a question

• All questions
   
• What are our neighbourhoods like?
  • What is the demographic composition of our neighbourhoods?
  • How do our neighbourhoods fare on a range of indicators?
• How do our communities compare?
  • How do needs compare with (similar) benchmark areas?
  • Which neighbourhoods/ groups are faring worse than the average?
  • Where are the priority areas?
• How are things changing over time?
  • Are deprived areas/ groups “narrowing the gap”?
  • What are recent socio-economic trends?
  • How many people are on benefits for short periods? Are people cycling between benefits and low pay?
  • What are projected future trends? How are needs likely to change in future?
• Who is coming in to (and moving out from) our area?
  • What are the levels of inward and outward migration like?
  • What are the commuting patterns (in-flow and out-flow) from our area?
• Who is most at risk? What factors are associated with high levels of need?
  • Who is most at risk? What factors are associated with high levels of need?
  • What is the distribution of need?
  • How do health inequalities vary by gender? By deprivation level?
  • How do areas with specific socio-economic issues fare economically?
  • What factors are associated with what outcomes?
  • Which groups are appropriate for preventative work?
• Access to services
  • What groups and areas have poor access to services?
• Are differences significant?
  • Are we doing significantly worse/ better than benchmark areas on key indicators of need?
  • Are changes over time significant?
• What are our citizen priorities?
  • What are the key priorities for citizens?
  • Which groups have particular views?
• How do our services compare?
  • How do costs of services compare with (similar) benchmark areas?
  • How do levels of service demand and take-up compare with (similar) benchmark areas?
  • Where are services most stretched (highest levels of take-up)?
• Understanding customers ('insight')
  • Who is most/ least satisfied with services?
  • What are the key priorities for citizens and users in improving services?
  • Which groups have particular views?
  • What groups and areas have poor take-up of services?
  • Preferred services and communication channels?
• User access to services
  • Where are services located?
  • What groups and areas have difficulties accessing services?
• Who are our service users?
  • Who are our service users? How do service users compare with the overall population?
  • Where do our service users come from?
  • What is our travel to work area?
  • Where are commuters coming from?
• How are we performing on targets?
  • Are we meeting targets?
  • What targets are we failing on?
  • What service areas are failing to meet targets?
• How do we compare?
  • How does our partnership performance services compare with (similar) benchmark areas?
  • How does performance of services compare with (similar) benchmark areas?
  • Are we providing Value for Money?
• How are outcomes changing over time?
  • What do performance trends look like?
  • Are our programmes working? Are area and individual outcomes improving?
  • Are deprived areas/ groups "narrowing the gap"?
• Satisfaction with services
  • How satisfied are service users?
  • Who is most/ least satisfied with services?
• How do we compare (with other areas)?
• What is changing over time?
• What is the distribution (of socio-economic indicators)?
• What are the components of an indicator (for example, how does the workless total split between jobseekers, incapacity benefits, lone parents etc)
• What is the relationship between different socio-economic factors?
• How significant are differences?
• How can I interactively explore a dataset?
• How can I visualise qualitative (text) data?
• How can I visualise categorical data? (for example, neighbourhood area classifications or service locations)