How 20,000 in 20 countries respond to six categories about your city: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Mexico City... (state, places)

[Trafalgar Law]

North American cities included in the survey are as follows: New York, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Chicago, Toronto, San Francisco, Dallas, Boston, Vancouver, and Seattle.

50 of the world's cities were surveyed. Respondents were asked a series of questions pertaining to six categories in regards to all 50 cities and were asked to answer the question by listing the cities from 1 through 50.

Category one: 01: Presence
How highly do people in... (insert surveyed country name)...rank the overall importance of…(insert surveyed city name)?

Argentina:
01. New York: 3rd out of 50.
02. Los Angeles: 10th out of 50.
03. Mexico City: 17th out of 50.
04. Chicago: 19th out of 50.
05. San Francisco: 20th out of 50.
06. Toronto: 23rd out of 50.
07. Boston: 26th out of 50.
08. Dallas: 33rd out of 50.
09. Vancouver: 39th out of 50.
10. Seattle: 41st out of 50.

Australia:
01. New York: 4th out of 50.
02. Los Angeles: 7th out of 50.
03. San Francisco: 12th out of 50.
04. Toronto: 19th out of 50.
05. Vancouver: 22nd out of 50.
06. Chicago: 26th out of 50.
07. Boston: 28th out of 50.
08. Seattle: 36th out of 50.
09. Dallas: 40th out of 50.
10. Mexico City: 41st out of 50.

Austria:
01. New York: 2nd out of 50.
02. Los Angeles: 9th out of 50.
03. San Francisco: 15th out of 50.
04. Chicago: 18th out of 50.
05. Toronto: 23rd out of 50.
06. Boston: 24th out of 50.
07. Mexico City: 25th out of 50.
08. Dallas: 28th out of 50.
09. Vancouver: 30th out of 50.
10. Seattle: 33rd out of 50.

Canada:
01. Toronto: 1st out of 50.
02. New York: 2nd out of 50.
03. Vancouver: 3rd out of 50.
04. Los Angeles: 6th out of 50.
05. San Francisco: 9th out of 50.
06. Boston: 11th out of 50.
07. Chicago: 15th out of 50.
08. Seattle: 17th out of 50.
09. Mexico City: 28th out of 50.
10. Dallas: 29th out of 50.

China:
01. New York: 6th out of 50.
02. Los Angeles: 12th out of 50.
03. San Francisco: 14th out of 50.
04. Chicago: 17th out of 50.
05. Vancouver: 21st out of 50.
06. Toronto: 23rd out of 50.
07. Seattle: 25th out of 50.
08. Mexico City: 29th out of 50.
09. Boston: 30th out of 50.
10. Dallas: 49th out of 50.

Egypt:
01. New York: 2nd out of 50.
02. Los Angeles: 13th out of 50.
03. San Francisco: 15th out of 50.
04. Chicago: 27th out of 50.
05. Boston: 28th out of 50.
06. Mexico City: 34th out of 50.
07. Toronto: 37th out of 50.
08. Dallas: 38th out of 50.
09. Seattle: 41st out of 50.
10. Vancouver: 47th out of 50.

France:
01. New York: 3rd out of 50.
02. Los Angeles: 13th out of 50.
03. San Francisco: 17th out of 50.
04. Toronto: 26th out of 50.
05. Chicago: 28th out of 50.
06. Boston: 30th out of 50.
07. Vancouver: 32nd out of 50.
08. Seattle: 41st out of 50.
09. Mexico City: 42nd out of 50.
10. Dallas: 43rd out of 50.

Germany:
01. New York: 5th out of 50.
02. Los Angeles: 11th out of 50.
03. San Francisco: 13th out of 50.
04. Vancouver: 35th out of 50.
05. Toronto: 32nd out of 50.
06. Chicago: 33rd out of 50.
07. Boston: 40th out of 50.
08. Seattle: 43rd out of 50.
09. Dallas: 44th out of 50.
10. Mexico City: 45th out of 50.

India:
01. New York: 4th out of 50.
02. Los Angeles: 8th out of 50.
03. Chicago: 14th out of 50.
04. San Francisco: 16th out of 50.
05. Mexico City: 22nd out of 50.
06. Toronto: 23rd out of 50.
07. Boston: 24th out of 50.
08. Dallas: 33rd out of 50.
09. Vancouver: 39th out of 50.
10. Seattle: 40th out of 50.

Italy:
01. New York: 6th out of 50.
02. Los Angeles: 14th out of 50.
03. San Francisco: 17th out of 50.
04. Chicago: 23rd out of 50.
05. Boston: 27th out of 50.
06. Toronto: 30th out of 50.
07. Seattle: 33rd out of 50.
08. Dallas: 41st out of 50.
09. Vancouver: 44th out of 50.
10. Mexico City: 46th out of 50.

Japan:
01. New York: 2nd out of 50.
02. Los Angeles: 6th out of 50.
03. San Francisco: 8th out of 50.
04. Chicago: 18th out of 50.
05. Boston: 19th out of 50.
06. Seattle: 22nd out of 50.
07. Vancouver: 25th out of 50.
08. Toronto: 30th out of 50.
09. Mexico City: 39th out of 50.
10. Dallas: 40th out of 50.

Mexico:
01. Mexico City: 1st out of 50.
02. New York: 3rd out of 50.
03. Los Angeles: 7th out of 50.
04. San Francisco: 11th out of 50.
05. Chicago: 14th out of 50.
06. Toronto: 17th out of 50.
07. Vancouver: 19th out of 50.
08. Dallas: 21st out of 50.
09. Boston: 26th out of 50.
10. Seattle: 29th out of 50.

Netherlands:
01. New York: 7th out of 50.
02. Los Angeles: 15th out of 50.
03. San Francisco: 22nd out of 50.
04. Chicago: 32nd out of 50.
05. Toronto: 34th out of 50.
06. Vancouver: 40th out of 50.
07. Boston: 41st out of 50.
08. Seattle: 44th out of 50.
09. Dallas: 45th out of 50.
10. Mexico City: 46th out of 50.

Poland:
01. New York: 8th out of 50.
02. Los Angeles: 15th out of 50.
03. Chicago: 26th out of 50.
04. San Francisco: 28th out of 50.
05. Toronto: 30th out of 50.
06. Boston: 40th out of 50.
07. Vancouver: 42nd out of 50.
08. Seattle: 44th out of 50.
09. Dallas: 45th out of 50.
10. Mexico City: 47th out of 50.

Russia:
01. New York: 7th out of 50.
02. Los Angeles: 16th out of 50.
03. San Francisco: 24th out of 50.
04. Chicago: 33rd out of 50.
05. Toronto: 34th out of 50.
06. Boston: 38th out of 50.
07. Seattle: 40th out of 50.
08. Mexico City: 42nd out of 50.
09. Vancouver: 43rd out of 50.
10. Dallas: 45th out of 50.

South Africa:
01. New York: 3rd out of 50.
02. Los Angeles: 8th out of 50.
03. Chicago: 17th out of 50.
04. San Francisco: 18th out of 50.
05. Boston: 25th out of 50.
06. Toronto: 28th out of 50.
07. Mexico City: 31st out of 50.
08. Dallas: 32nd out of 50.
09. Seattle: 33rd out of 50.
10. Vancouver: 41st out of 50.

South Korea:
01. New York: 2nd out of 50.
02. Los Angeles: 7th out of 50.
03. San Francisco: 14th out of 50.
04. Chicago: 16th out of 50.
05. Vancouver: 20th out of 50.
06. Boston: 23rd out of 50.
07. Seattle: 24th out of 50.
08. Toronto: 28th out of 50.
09. Mexico City: 30th out of 50.
10. Dallas: 44th out of 50.

Spain:
01. New York: 6th out of 50.
02. Los Angeles: 13th out of 50.
03. San Francisco: 18th out of 50.
04. Chicago: 30th out of 50.
05. Boston: 31st out of 50.
06. Toronto: 33rd out of 50.
07. Seattle: 42nd out of 50.
08. Dallas: 43rd out of 50.
09. Mexico City: 44th out of 50.
10. Vancouver: 45th out of 50.

Sweden:
01. New York: 4th out of 50.
02. Los Angeles: 11th out of 50.
03. San Francisco: 15th out of 50.
04. Chicago: 30th out of 50.
05. Boston: 34th out of 50.
06. Toronto: 39th out of 50.
07. Dallas: 40th out of 50.
08. Seattle: 41st out of 50.
09. Vancouver: 43rd out of 50.
10. Mexico City: 46th out of 50.

Turkey:
01. New York: 3rd out of 50.
02. Los Angeles: 13th out of 50.
03. San Francisco: 20th out of 50.
04. Chicago: 23rd out of 50.
05. Boston: 28th out of 50.
06. Mexico City: 36th out of 50.
07. Toronto: 38th out of 50.
08. Dallas: 40th out of 50.
09. Seattle: 46th out of 50.
10. Vancouver: 48th out of 50.

United Kingdom:
01. New York: 4th out of 50.
02. Los Angeles: 13th out of 50.
03. San Francisco: 21st out of 50.
04. Toronto: 25th out of 50.
05. Chicago: 28th out of 50.
06. Boston: 29th out of 50.
07. Vancouver: 30th out of 50.
08. Seattle: 35th out of 50.
09. Dallas: 39th out of 50.
10. Mexico City: 43rd out of 50.

United States:
01. New York: 1st out of 50.
02. Chicago: 3rd out of 50.
03. San Francisco: 4th out of 50.
04. Los Angeles: 5th out of 50.
05. Boston: 6th out of 50.
06. Seattle: 8th out of 50.
07. Dallas: 9th out of 50.
08. Toronto: 13th out of 50.
09. Vancouver: 20th out of 50.
10. Mexico City: 33rd out of 50.

I'll leave it at that. For the other 5 categories, you can do it yourself here:Simon Anholt - Research - City Brands Index

Have fun with that.

[rogead]

This is an interesting study, but it has the inherent problem of being limited only to the group of cities randomly chosen for inclusion by the researchers. For example, among North American cities; no Philadelphia, Houston, Montreal, or Atlanta--but Seattle is included?

[Trafalgar Law]

Originally Posted by rogead

This is an interesting study, but it has the inherent problem of being limited only to the group of cities randomly chosen for inclusion by the researchers. For example, among North American cities; no Philadelphia, Houston, Montreal, or Atlanta--but Seattle is included?

They wanted to hold it to just 50 cities.

The omission of Washington D.C. to me is the only thing I found startling about it but this same agency includes it in most of it's other city brand indexes, along with Montreal and Houston sometimes.

Miami is left off, while it would be towards the top of the lists for places like Argentina, it would plummet to bottom three in the 50 for several places like South Korea, South Africa, so on. So they disqualified it immediately.

[rogead]

Originally Posted by Red John

They wanted to hold it to just 50 cities.

The omission of Washington D.C. to me is the only thing I found startling about it but this same agency includes it in most of it's other city brand indexes, along with Montreal and Houston sometimes.

Miami is left off, while it would be towards the top of the lists for places like Argentina, it would plummet to bottom three in the 50 for several places like South Korea, South Africa, so on. So they disqualified it immediately.

Yea, I forgot Washington. I think my ultimate point is that the first six cities you listed are undeniably among the ten most prominent in North America. However, there are at least eight other cities that would logically be considered for the last four spots before Seattle.

I do think it's interesting to see how those top six play out.

[munchitup]

Shows that Americans typically have a lower opinion of Los Angeles than the rest of the world. No surprise Japan and South Korea are the ones that find LA most important (ie give it its highest rank.).

[Bluefox]

Probably should be in the world forum. Surprised to see Chicago ranked above Toronto for China.

[stanley-88888888]

i always aimed it was common opinion that nyc was the most important economic city but it's average place like a 5 or 6... we're the only ones to rank it 1.

we also ranked all of our cities in the top 10.

i wonder who averaged the top spot.

[RadicalAtheist]

NYC, LA, SF (chicago a couple times) for NA ones

[JerseyGirl415]

Originally Posted by stanley-88888888

i always aimed it was common opinion that nyc was the most important economic city but it's average place like a 5 or 6... we're the only ones to rank it 1.

we also ranked all of our cities in the top 10.

i wonder who averaged the top spot.

That, or they chose cities in their own countries first simply because they have that bias (like Canada choosing Toronto then New York). NY is pretty damn close to top in every single one and is always the top US city. I assume cities put ahead of it are cities within those countries in which people were surveyed or a city like London, maybe Tokyo, Hong Kong - other alpha + or whatever they are cities. A European might find London slightly more important to them than New York, perhaps because it's more familiar or accessible, for example.

[NowInWI]

Random people answering these questions. I'm "guessing" a lot of these, are guesses.