Public Participation
New Hanover County citizen surveys
Documents related to citizen surveys conducted by New Hanover County.
Resources
We attempted to measure citizen opinions regarding...
- Living in New Hanover County
- Effectiveness of New Hanover County government
- Citizens’ priorities for the future
- Customer service given by various County departments
- Establish a baseline of citizens’ opinions with regard to various issues
The ability of survey results to assist you in decision making can be enhanced by looking at the survey data from different perspectives or ‘views’. Each view contributes to a more complete understanding of the true opinions underlying people’s responses to the survey questions. Looking at multiple views is part of the process of transforming relatively meaningless ‘data’ into useful ‘information’ and hopefully even into ‘insight’. Consequently, the results presented in this report are presented in various levels of detail in order to provide you with different views of the data. For example, in some cases the results summarize the opinions of all of the people who responded to the survey taken together. In other cases, the survey data is segmented into groups of respondents who differ from one another along one or more dimensions. This segmentation of the data enables you to determine if different groups of people answered questions differently.