It’s hard, of course, to summarize a whole 26 pages of survey results in just a few column-inches or a few paragraphs on the Web.

Especially when the survey gives a voice to 85 Rock River Valley companies — with a total of more than 8,500 employees — and what they think about the business climate here. Specifically, their satisfaction level, or lack thereof, with about 40 different local factors from workforce stability to utilities to property tax assessment to schools.

In the past couple of weeks at businessrockford.com we’ve written some stories about that fourth annual survey — whose results were publicly released March 13 as the Voice-of-the-Customer Report by the Rockford Area Economic Development Council. (The customers are, of course, local businesses.)

I’d recommend you take a look at the whole 26-page report. It’s available online in pdf format here.

The summary report doesn’t just gauge business satisfaction, it points out our community’s strengths and opportunities for improvement.