This Armed Forces Needs Assessment (AFNA) report forms part of a wider Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) suite of products that provide an overview of the key issues across Essex. The aims of these reports are, to: • Provide key demographics of the armed forces community in Essex • Examine the experiences of the armed forces community in relation to: • Health and...
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 just over 6,500 residents responding to the 2023 survey, it allows us to better understand the diversity of views and experiences within...
This research presents insights from research conducted with residents in rural Braintree during Oct-Dec 2022. Little is known about hidden poverty and deprivation in rural areas. Therefore, the research seeks to explore the impact, the challenges this presents to residents within rural Braintree and the ideas they have on what would enable them to take opportunities and secure greater financial...
The Oral Health Needs Assessment (OHNA) report forms part of a wider Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) suite of products that provide an overview of the key issues across Essex. The aims of this report are to: · To describe the oral health of the local population · To support the targeting of resources towards improving the oral health · To identify new or alternative ways in which...
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...
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...
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...
Following the announcement of the COVID-19 lockdown on 23rd March, the University of Essex and Jump, working with the Essex Local Delivery Pilot (LDP) and ECC’s Research and Insight team, launched the State of Life survey. The State of Life survey is web-based and distributed via social media channels. It is designed to gather key insights on wellbeing across Essex. This report...