Andrew Rosenthal, 26 March 2021, "Have you ever enrolled in an energy assistance program to help with utility bill payment? (Q44 SP2020)", contributed by Andrew Rosenthal, Briana Leone and Alison Kenner, The Energy Rights Project, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 17 August 2022, accessed 18 April 2024. https://energyrights.info/content/have-you-ever-enrolled-energy-assistance-program-help-utility-bill-payment-q44-sp2020
Critical Commentary
The chart reflects responses to Question #44 from the Spring 2020 survey, which asked: “Have you ever enrolled in an energy assistance program to help with utility bill payment?” The pre-structured options were, “Yes, I have before COVID-19”; “Yes, I have since COVID-19 began”; “No I have not”; “I was unaware of such programs”; “I don’t know”; and “NA.”
There were eighty-four responses to this question.
Seventy-three (86.9%) said they have not had to enroll in an assistance program to help with utility payments.
One respondent (1.2%) said they had, before COVID-19 began and another respondent (1.2%) said they had since COVID-19 began.
Ten respondents (11.9%) said they are not familiar with such programs (three responded “no” and “I am unaware of such programs”).
One respondent (1.2%) did not know.
The data was produced by the Shifting Energy Demands in COVID-19 Survey - Overview, which was administered to 86 people over a six week period in May-June 2020. Visit the Shifting Energy Demands in COVID-19 - Survey Results page to view more data from our survey. The project is approved by Drexel’s IRB.