The Coordinating Council of Broward (CCB) produces The Broward Benchmarks to help establish a basis for assessing the progress of Broward County in addressing its most urgent issues.  The data collected organizes nearly 300 indicators into the seven distinct sections that are identified below.  There is a strong focus on indicators that measure outcomes.

Data collection for the report is a collaborative process, with two major component parts.  Approximately every two years, The CCB teams with Professional Research Consultants, Inc. to conduct the Broward County Quality of Life Survey, a telephone survey of Broward County residents.  These public opinion surveys were conducted in 1997, 1999/2000, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008.  The results of each survey are available in a real time database where cross-tabulations can be created on the fly.  In addition, reports and slide presentations for the surveys starting with 1999/2000 are available at www.sfrpc.com/ccb/prchome.htm.

The other primary component of the data collection is the continuous updating of secondary data from administrative sources, carried out by stakeholder groups in Broward County that have volunteered to be responsible for specific sections of the report.  Currently designated stakeholders are:

The South Florida Regional Planning Council staff compiles the document and updates indicators for which no stakeholder group has taken responsibility.  Links are provided below to full editions of the report through 2002.  Starting with the 2002 edition, The CCB has published the Selected Quality of Life Indicators, a more in-depth look at approximately 60 of the most significant indicators.  Spreadsheets with the full sets of indicators for editions after 2002 are available upon request from Dick Ogburn (rogburn@sfrpc.com).

As part of the update process for 2008, stakeholders made a series of slide presentations at meetings of the Quality of Life Committee.  Those presentations are posted below:

·         Our Families and Communities 1 (Children’s Services Council, January 26, 2009)

·         Our Families and Communities 2 (United Way, January 26, 2009)

·         Our Safety (Broward Sheriff’s Office, December 8, 2008)

·         Our Learning (Broward County Public Schools, January 26, 2009)

·         Our Health (Health Care Access Committee, November 24, 2008)

·         Our Environment (Broward County Environmental Protection and Growth Management Department, October 13, 2008)