We measure certain changes to judge the effectiveness of the projects on which we’re spending this public money – and to inform decisions about any changes of direction that might be necessary. Progress is judged by several different means:

• By asking a sample group of about 500 NDC adults a long series of questions every two years about their experiences as an NDC resident.

This is called “qualitative” data – because it tells us about the quality, rather than the quantity, of what’s happening.

They are asked, for example, about how safe they feel, how neighbourly the people around them are, whether they feel the area’s improving or not, how healthy they feel, whether or not they smoke, what qualifications they have and so on and so on.

Regularly questioning this many people by one of the world’s leading polling companies (MORI) gives us a very accurate idea about how people generally are feeling about life in the NDC area – and about the characteristics of people living in the area. This allows us to calibrate what we do to make the most relevant impacts on the area and its residents.

The same questions are also asked of a sample of Hartlepool residents outside the NDC area, so we can compare changes in NDC against changes taking place in the town as a whole – and see whether NDC is improving or not relative to the whole town. Our goal is to reduce what started out as a considerable gap on many indices of disadvantage between NDC and the rest of the town.

By clicking on the links below you can view the changes in their answers to these questions between 2002, 2004 and 2006.  

Summary of Hartlepool NDC Mori results	Full Mori results for Hartlepool NDC	Comparison between Hartlepool NDC and the whole of Hartlepool Borough

• By collecting together quantitative data – hard facts and numbers – about life in the NDC area, such as numbers of crimes, people in work, qualification levels and so on and so on.

All Government funded regeneration programmes measure their impact in terms of:

HEALTH INDICATORS

EMPLOYMENT LEVELS

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

ENVIRONMENTAL AND HOUSING QUALITY

CRIME LEVELS AND THE EXPERIENCE OF CRIME

To look at what data we have – which isn’t complete in every case, in each of these areas, please click on the links below.

• By evaluating the impact of the individual projects that we fund.

Click on the link below to see a list of projects that have been evaluated.  Then click on the project in which you’re interested.