Regarding our PerfectCity Charter we have just started a new poll. This time we want to know what is most important about the economic environment in the City of The Future. To get a little deeper into that issue we want to focus on an interesting index, the so called economic environment index.

The Atlas of Canada site, a website where you can discover Canada through national maps and facts, has a wide range of different maps. There you can find map which displays the quality of life through an economic environment index in Canada.

This map shows the quality of the economic environment: the environment in which people engage in, and benefit from, economic activity that includes aspects of paid employment and household finances. The indicators of the economic environment measure the ability of households to access goods and services important to quality of life. To asses the quality of the economic environment seven indicators are used (you can find some of them as factors to vote for in our poll) regarding household finances and employment/paid work. These indicators are: [read more...]