Wellbeing Dashboard Venserpolder
What is the state of wellbeing of Venserpolder? Researchers from the University of Amsterdam worked with residents to measure what they consider important. According to these residents, these three topics are the most important:
Healthy
lifestyle
54%
is unsatisfied about exercise and healthy food
44%
is unsatisfied about amount of free time
Financial
health
47%
has difficulties making ends meet
57%
experiences financial difficulties
Neighbourhood
activities
52%
is not met in their needs
68%
thinks there are too little
The wellbeing of Venserpolder
In total, there are 16 topics which make up the Dashboard. This gives us an idea of how Venserpolder is doing.
The percentages show how many residents are already satisfied with each topic. Among other things, it shows that political participation is doing well. But economic activity is not doing as well. Satisfaction with municipal policies has the lowest score.
Do it yourself
As a resident, you can engage with the municipality and other organisations yourself: Take these figures and discuss them. For ease of reference, we made a sheet of the three most important topics. On it you find more figures, for example by age or level of education.
From September to November 2023, there was the Venserpolder Dialogues experiment.
Residents started practising conversations about this data.
Creation
A group of residents and UvA researchers collected this data in the autum of 2022. We regularly update the dashboard to keep residents’ views and results up to date.