Andrew Rosenthal, 26 March 2021, "Are you or the owner of the building where you live deferring maintenance on the building due to COVID-19? (Q43 Wi2020)", contributed by Andrew Rosenthal and Alison Kenner, The Energy Rights Project, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 30 June 2021, accessed 24 April 2024. https://energyrights.info/content/are-you-or-owner-building-where-you-live-deferring-maintenance-building-due-covid-19-q43-0
Critical Commentary
The chart reflects responses to Question #43 from the Winter 2020 survey, which asked, “Are you or the owner of the building where you live deferring maintenance on the building due to COVID-19?” The pre-structured options were, “Yes, due to financial constraints”; “Yes, due to a stay at home order”; “Yes, due to fears of COVID-19”; “No, no maintenance was scheduled”; “No, maintenance work is going on as planned”; “I don’t know”; and “other.”
Eighty-one respondents answered this question.
Sixteen respondents (19.8%) reported that they had delayed maintenance on their building because of fears of COVID-19.
Twelve respondents (14.8%) reported they had delayed maintenance because of a stay-at-home order.
Sixteen respondents (19.8%) reported they had delayed maintenance because of financial constraints.
Thirty-three respondents (40.7%) answered that no maintenance was scheduled.
Fifteen respondents (18.5%) reported that maintenance went along as planned.
Four respondents (4.9%) did not know.
Two respondents (2.5%) answered “other”.
One respondent answered yes, but did not specify (1.2%).
The data was produced by the Shifting Energy Demands in COVID-19 Survey - Overview, which was administered to 83 people over a fourteen week period between December 2020 and March 2021. Visit the Winter 2020 Shifting Energy Demands in COVID-19 - Survey Results page to view more data from our survey. The project is approved by Drexel’s IRB.