Essex County Council has carried out research with residents to understand: Their experiences around the increasing cost of living The impact this is having on people's day-to-day lives as well as bigger life decisions being made or considered What things may help ease pressures ECC's Research & Citizen Insight Team carried out 20 in-depth interviews with residents from...
This report provides the findings of research conducted aiming to investigate covid-19 vaccine hesitancy in Essex (vaccination and booster hesitancy). Through a mixed methods approach, the reasons why residents delay or refuse the vaccination or booster dose was investigated, with a focus on understanding the barriers and facilitators, and what could be done to help address hesitancy.
The Essex Resident Survey is Essex County Council’s biggest survey exercise and aims to generate insights on residents’ aspirations, views and values, helping to shape strategy, and to inform key delivery programmes and our engagement with residents. With almost 6,000 residents responding to the 2022 survey, it allows us to better understand the diversity of views and experiences within the...
Lived Experience of service users and those requiring support during the Covid-19 pandemic.
This presentation is a summary of cost of living research by the Data and Analytics and Research and Citizen Insight teams at Essex County Council, presented in October 2022. This presentation summarises work on the following: Universal Credit take-up Inflation Fuel poverty Impact on childrens' services Primary research with Essex residents. To view the presentation, please download...
Under the new Domestic Abuse Act, ECC has responsibilities for delivering a range of statutory duties, including ensuring representation of the voice of victims on the Domestic Abuse Partnership Board. As well as meeting this statutory duty, ECC is committed to engaging with domestic abuse survivors as ‘experts by experience’. This includes providing opportunities for sharing views and ideas, and working...
This research explored people’s attitudes and behaviours around food waste, to help inform the design of future campaign activity and interventions aimed at reducing food waste across Essex. An online research community was set up for 15 participants from across Essex to participate over a two-week period in May 2022, and a small virtual focus group was also held. Participants shared...
Essex County Council commissioned a research project during the summer of 2021 to explore the needs, motivations, and barriers to successful employment for people with learning disabilities and autism in Essex. This report presents findings from this research.
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Research was conducted with Essex residents between March-June 2021, to: Understand residents’ current behaviours relating to climate action and their views towards climate change and the environment Understand what residents see as the primary barriers to engaging more with climate action behaviours Explore what might be needed to increase capability, opportunity and/or motivation for climate action to...
