This is assesed through the collation of subordinate indicators namely: hopeful communities, trusting communities, violent communities and discriminating communities.
Count the number of communities where there has been an improvement of at least 10% of the baseline score in one or more of the following indicators: hope, trust, physical violence or discrimination. For example if the baseline survey using the hope indicator said that 30% of people in one community trusted people from other faith or community groups and this rose to 36% at the next survey this woud be a 20% change (6/30) and so this community would be counted as a community demonstrating an improvement in relationships with others. If another community saw the score rise from 30% to 32% this would not count as the increase was only 6.7% (2/30)
