Andrew Rosenthal, 20 April 2021, "Has a change in your income or your COVID-19's household income impacted your household's ability to pay utility bills? (Q32 S + W 2020)", contributed by Andrew Rosenthal and Alison Kenner, The Energy Rights Project, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 22 April 2021, accessed 18 April 2024. https://energyrights.info/content/has-change-your-income-or-your-covid-19s-household-income-impacted-your-households-ability-1
Critical Commentary
This chart reflects responses to Question #32 from the Spring 2020 and Winter 2020 surveys, 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.
168 respondents answered this question. Nineteen respondents reported that there has not been a change in their income and another nineteen respondents reported there has not been a change of household income. Forty respondents indicated yes. Seven respondents reported changes in income have not impacted their ability to pay utility bills. One hundred and six respondents reported no. Eight respondents reported not yet, but it will in the coming months. One respondent did not know and another had not yet received a utility bill.
The data was produced by the Shifting Energy Demands in COVID-19 Survey, which has been administered to 169 people over two time periods. The Spring 2020 survey was administered to 86 people between May and June, and the Winter 2020 survey was administered to 83 people between December 2020 and March 2021. Visit the Shifting Energy Demands in COVID-19 - Spring + Winter 2020 Survey Results page to view more data from our survey. The project is approved by Drexel’s IRB.