3.34 Community Health and Well-Being (summary)

Description

This dataset comes from the Community Survey questions relating to the Community Health & Well-Being performance measure: "With “10” representing the best possible life for you and “0” representing the worst, how would you say you personally feel you stand at this time?" and "With “10” representing the best possible life for you and “0” representing the worst, how do you think you will stand about five years from now?" – the results of both scores are then used to assess a Cantril Scale which is a way of assessing general life satisfaction.  
 
As per the Cantril Self-Anchoring Striving Scale, the three categories of identification are as follows: 
  • Thriving – Respondents rate their current life as a 7 or higher AND their future life as an 8 or higher. 
  • Suffering – Respondents rate their current life negatively (0 to 4) AND their future life negatively (0 to 4).  
  • Struggling – Respondents who do not meet the criteria for Thriving or Suffering.
 
The survey is mailed to a random sample of households in the City of Tempe and has a 95% confidence level.
 

Note on Methodology Update: 
In 2025, the Cantril classification method was revised to align with Gallup’s official Life Evaluation Index methodology. This change affects only a small number of respondents whose answers did not fit cleanly into the previous custom definition of “Struggling,” which classified respondents who rated their current life moderately (5 or 6) or their future life moderately or negatively (0 to 7). 

Under the updated approach, respondents who previously fell outside that definition are now appropriately included in the Struggling category. The overall distribution of Thriving, Struggling, and Suffering changed only minimally, and the updated methodology has been applied consistently to all prior years.

This page provides data for the Community Health and Well-Being performance measure.

The performance measure dashboard is available at 3.34 Community Health and Well-Being.

Data Dictionary
 

Additional Information

Source: Community Attitude Survey (Vendor: ETC Institute)

Contact: Amber Asburry

Contact email: amber_asburry@tempe.gov

Preparation Method: Survey results from two questions are calculated to create a Cantril Scale value that falls into the categories of 
Thriving, Struggling, and Suffering.

Publish Frequency: Annually

Publish Method: Manual

 

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 https://data.tempe.gov/datasets/tempegov::3-34-community-health-and-well-being-summary
3 https://services.arcgis.com/lQySeXwbBg53XWDi/arcgis/rest/services/3_34_Community_Health_and_Wellbeing/FeatureServer/0
21 https://data.tempe.gov/maps/tempegov::3-34-community-health-and-well-being-summary
15 https://data.tempe.gov/api/download/v1/items/b40ffb4df5e0424d82abd068bffa4d2c/geojson?layers=0
57 https://data.tempe.gov/api/download/v1/items/b40ffb4df5e0424d82abd068bffa4d2c/shapefile?layers=0
25 https://data.tempe.gov/api/download/v1/items/b40ffb4df5e0424d82abd068bffa4d2c/kml?layers=0
8 https://data.tempe.gov/api/download/v1/items/b40ffb4df5e0424d82abd068bffa4d2c/csv?layers=0

Tags

  • cantril-scale
  • community-survey
  • community-health-and-well-being-pm-3-34

Topics

  • Local Government

Categories