Anonymous, "**If no to Q15** what might you do if you did lose heat? (Q15b WI2020)", contributed by Briana Leone and Alison Kenner, The Energy Rights Project, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 19 April 2021, accessed 24 November 2024. https://energyrights.info/content/if-no-q15-what-might-you-do-if-you-did-lose-heat-q15b-wi2020
Critical Commentary
The chart here reflects answers collected from Question #15b of the Winter 2020 survey, which asked: “If no to Q15, what might you do if you did lose heat?” The structured responses for this question follow:
Call my landlord.
Call an HVAC company.
Call my utility company.
See if I could figure it out myself
Ask someone I know who works with heaters to fix it.
I don’t know.
Other
From the 38 responses collected for this question, the following was drawn:
5 respondents would call their landlord.
1 would also call their utility company.
3 respondents would call an HVAC company.
1 respondent would also call their utility;
1 other respondent would go somewhere with heat.
6 respondents would call their utility company.
1 would use space heaters in the meantime;
1 other respondent would see if anybody else’s heat was out.
1 would try to figure it out themselves and ask someone they know who works with heaters to fix it.
5 respondents said they didn’t know.
4 respondents would go to parents, friends, or relatives’ home
14 respondents would use space heaters.
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.