Community Council online presences 2012, 2014, 2022

This page shows data about community council online presences, aggregated for each Scottish local authority.

'online presence' means one or more of website, public Facebook presence and public Twitter presence. (Some maps are about individual components of online presences, e.g. website alone, Facebook alone or Twitter alone.)

On any map, hover over a local authority to see its name and data. To zoom into a local authority, either click it, or enter its name into the search-bar then click 'Search', or use the + and - signs, along with dragging the map.

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Proportions of community councils that existed in 2012, 2014 and 2022, as percentages of numbers that could exist

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Proportions of community councils that had websites in 2012, 2014 and 2022, as percentages of numbers of existing CCs

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Proportions of community councils that had up-to-date websites in 2012, 2014 and 2022, as percentages of numbers of existing CCs

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Proportions of community councils that had public Facebook presences in 2012, 2014 and 2022, as percentages of numbers of existing CCs

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Proportions of community councils that had public Twitter presences in 2012, 2014 and 2022, as percentages of numbers of existing CCs

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Proportions of community councils that published local area, minutes and news content in 2012, 2014 and 2022, as percentages of numbers of CCs that had websites

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Proportions of community council online presences that changed status between 2012 and 2014, and between 2014 and 2022, as percentages of numbers of CCs that existed in both years

Possible statuses were 'did not exist', 'existed but had no online presence', 'had an online presence but it had not had new content for over a month' and 'had an online presence which had new content in the last month'.

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Proportions of community council online presences that did not change status between 2012 and 2014, and between 2014 and 2022, as percentages of numbers of CCs that existed in both years

Possible statuses were 'did not exist', 'existed but had no online presence', 'had an online presence but it had not had new content for over a month' and 'had an online presence which had new content in the last month'.

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Proportions of community council websites that were ‘active’ in 2012, 2014 and 2022, as percentages of numbers of CCs that had websites

‘active’ means published new content in the last month, and published regularly before that.

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Proportions of community council websites that were ‘consistently active’ between 2012 and 2014, and between 2014 and 2022, as percentages of numbers of CCs that had active websites at the start of these periods

‘consistently active’ means the website was active in both 2012 and 2014, or in both 2014 and 2022. (We do not know whether websites stopped and then restarted being active within those periods.)

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Proportions of community council websites that fitted the ‘journalist’ archetype in 2014 and 2022, as percentages of numbers of CCs that had ‘active’ websites in those years

‘journalist’ means the website was ‘active’ in the relevant year, and published news content.

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Proportions of community council websites that fitted the ‘charity/campaigner’ archetype in 2014 and 2022, as percentages of numbers of CCs that had ‘active’ websites in those years

‘charity/campaigner’ means the website was ‘active’ in the relevant year, and published campaigning content.

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Proportions of community council websites that fitted the ‘local government/open’ archetype in 2014 and 2022, as percentages of numbers of CCs that had ‘active’ websites in those years

‘local government/open’ means the website was ‘active’ in the relevant year, and published members' names, minutes, planning content, and has a community council email address or contact form.

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