Anyang City Achieves Top National Ranking in Administrative Satisfaction Survey

[Suwon Ilbo=Yu Je-seong Reporter] Anyang City announced on the 8th that it has achieved top-tier rankings in key indicators including administrative satisfaction, civic participation rate, and sustainable development awareness in a survey conducted by the National Sustainable Development Cooperative's Gender Equality Agenda Network (hereinafter NSDC).

The NSDC released the "2025 Report on Gender-Equal Living in Economic and Political Sectors" last month, conducting a survey on gender equality in the daily life, economic, and political domains among 1,171 citizens from 23 regions nationwide.

According to the report, Anyang City recorded the top score of 63.9 points in the political sector.

The political sector questionnaire was composed of awareness of local representatives, satisfaction with local representative activities, and necessity of women representatives. Notably, among Anyang area respondents (107 people), 59.8% (64 people) responded positively to "local administrative satisfaction," consisting of very satisfied (5 people), generally satisfied (21 people), and somewhat more satisfied (38 people), which was the highest among surveyed regions.

The economic sector score, which asked about income satisfaction and work-life balance, recorded 73.4 points, placing fourth.

Additionally, 84.1% of respondents indicated awareness of the NSDC, the highest among surveyed regions, and 29.9% said they were aware of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also the highest nationwide.

Anyang citizens showed a higher rate of encountering local news through "meetings or gatherings" compared to other regions (45.7%), indicating relatively active information-sharing through citizen networks. The proportion engaging in volunteer work (34.7%) was also higher than other regions.

The city plans to strengthen communication systems with relevant agencies to translate civic capacity and awareness into actual policy changes, and will jointly pursue region-tailored consulting and education projects with the NSDC to improve workplace gender equality culture. The city also plans to establish a policy-linking system to ensure substantive reflection in the gender equality basic plan and gender-aware budgeting.

Jung Gyunju, Director of the Policy Planning Division, stated, "Anyang is the city with the highest civic engagement and sustainable development awareness," and added, "We will continue to improve policies and systems to ensure Anyang's capacity translates into substantive gender equality."