Local Government Performance Index

 

 

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The Local Government Performance Index (LGPI) aims to make data on the performance of Canada’s municipalities available in one, easily accessible location so that members of the public, media, and government can better understand how municipalities are performing in comparison to each other.

The hope of the LGPI is that this ease of access to data will help everyone involved in local government to identify best practices and areas for improvement in both actual performance and the way performance is reported on.

The LGPI has been published annually since 2007, and in 2010 was transformed into an entirely new open database concept.  In 2011 it was developed further to streamline the original concept, in response to comments from the public, media, and local government practitioners.  While previous reports were prepared and published within the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, the LGPI is now a living data base where anybody can register and examine the data, challenge it, and even add to or change it if they are able to provide a source.

This new methodology is intended to engage more minds in the measurement and pursuit of better local government, resulting in more data for more cities and greater transparency in the way that the data is provided.

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Prior to 2010, the LGPI was published as a report:

 

Local Government Performance Index - 2009

Local Government Performance Index - 2008

Local Government Performance Index - 2007