I received the raw data from CUIR, and reweighted it to account for renters (52%) vs homeowners (48%). This also brought income statistics closer to what is likely the real breakdown, since renters tend to be much lower income (61% under $50K) than homeowners (12% under $50K). I am going to create and post a set of crosstabs, so any of you can look at whatever statistics interest you.
There are a lot of interesting numbers to look at, many of which could be valuable to those shaping policy initiatives in the years ahead. Some confirm what you would expect, others are more surprising. Here are a few examples.
- Those who live on an alley are less satisfied with the DPW (40% satisfied) than those who do not live on an alley (54%).
- Higher income residents are more likely than lower income residents to favor maintaining services with tax increases.
- Among single family home dwellers, 7 in 10 (70%) are satisfied with the parking situations, compared to just 33% of apartment dwellers.
- Garbage can flyers do not reach apartment or condo dwellers (reach 1 in 4), but are among the most effective ways of communicating to single family home dwellers (reach 9 of 10).
- One in three households with children in Shorewood are renters. Keep this in mind next time the debate comes up about maintaining and increasing school enrollment.
If you are a stats geek like me and would like the raw SPSS data file or syntax files, let me know, and I will send them to you. Unfortunately, the blogging engine appears to prevent posting SPSS files, or I would just put them here.
