Telecommunity Services -- Residential Phone Survey

The cost of the "Telecommunity Phone Survey" is $50.
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One of the key attributes to understanding the role of advanced technologies and telecommunications to a community is to assess both the individual's impact and opportunities. This is the purpose of the Telecommunity Residential Phone Survey. The Phone Survey will guide individuals who are surveying residences through the needed questions to ascertain both the impact and opportunities. The Phone Survey includes:

1. An instruction booklet that describes methods to randomize the survey of local residents or to stratify the sample based some characteristic, such as age.
2. Instructions on calculating an appropriate sample size based on the community's population.
3. A script that can be used by a phone surveyor to collect the needed data.
4. A tally sheet that can be used to collect the data and that will be helpful when aggregating the results for the community assessment.

While the primary focus of the Telecommunity Residential Phone Survey is on collecting data on an individual's current and needed uses of advanced technology and telecommunications, the survey also collects data on the individual's interests in economic development. For example, many individuals are interested in exploring home business opportunities, but have been hesitant to do so because they are unaware of local support. The Telecommunity Residential Phone Survey has been designed to capture data that can be used to evaluate both the breadth and depth of the question whether the community is prepared to pursue an economic development strategy around advanced technology and telecommunications.