Has a change in your income or your COVID-19's household income impacted your household's ability to pay utility bills? (Q.32)

This chart reflects responses to Question #32 from the Winter 2020 survey, which asked, “Has a change in your income or your COVID-19's household income impacted your household's ability to pay utility bills?” The given options were, 

• There has not been a change in my income; 

• There has not been a change in household income; 

• Yes; 

• Changes in income have not impacted our ability to pay bills; 

• No; 

• Not yet, but it will in the coming months; 

• I don’t know.
  
  

Eighty-one respondents answered this question (one respondent asked to skip). Respondents could indicate multiple answers.  

• Six respondents (7.4%) said there has not been a change in their income (one respondent indicated there was no change in their income but they still struggled to pay their bills). 

• Ten respondents (12.3%) said there has not been a change in household income. 

• Thirty-six respondents (44.4%) said yes. 

• Five (6.2%) respondents said changes in income have not impacted their ability to pay bills (two respondents indicated they were making more money and one respondent indicated they were still struggling to pay bills for other reasons). - - 

• Twenty-nine (35.8%)respondents said no. 

• One respondent (1.2%) said not yet, but it will in the coming months. 

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