Respondents were asked to respond to a question about outlook and perspective. The question was: 

• Mitchell is part of a larger regional economy, but also has its own issues and challenges to tackle. Please select your preference on the following continuum. 
• Scale: ‘The community is fairly insular in its outlook and has a priority of taking care of local concerns and issues and investing in local projects’ ; 10 = ‘Community is very outward and regionally, nationally and globally focused, with investments being made at a larger scale’.