Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Councils: An independent survey of residents

Views of adults in Mid Suffolk and Babergh District Councils on various aspects of the proposal to create a new single District Council.

• Residents in Babergh and Mid Suffolk are more likely to be favourable towards the proposed creation of a single District Council (49%) than unfavourable (31%). Those in Mid Suffolk are more likely to be favourable (55%) than those in Babergh (42%).
• Three in ten people have not heard of the proposal (30%).
• Residents in Babergh and Mid Suffolk are more likely to be not or not very concerned about the proposed creation of a single District Council (54%) than fairly or very concerned (43%).
• If a single District Council were created, residents are more likely to place importance on this council providing long term financial stability to protect services (72% say this is ‘very important’) and directly delivering all public services better (69% ‘very important’).

Date Published: 23/03/2018

Categories: Politics | Public and communities | Social | UK

Client: Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Councils

Methodology

ComRes interviewed 4,003 adults aged 18+ living in the Babergh or Mid Suffolk District Council areas by telephone.

ComRes interviewed 2,000 adults aged 18+ living in Babergh District and 2,003 adults aged 18+ living in Mid Suffolk District.

Fieldwork was conducted between 24^th October 2017 and 6^th February 2018.

Two stages of weighting were applied to the responses. Data were initially weighted to be representative of all adults living in Mid Suffolk and Babergh Districts separately by:

• Age
• Gender
• Council area
• Socio-economic grade (SEG)
• Ethnicity

Data were then weighted by council size to be representative of the combined population of Babergh and Mid Suffolk Councils.

Quotas were also set to ensure a good spread of responses by Council ward and working status (economically active vs. economically inactive).

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