Ali Kenner, "What is your age? (Q52 Sp2020)", contributed by Alison Kenner and Briana Leone, The Energy Rights Project, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 24 September 2021, accessed 19 May 2024. https://energyrights.info/content/what-your-age-q52-sp2020-0
Critical Commentary
The chart reflects responses to Question #52 from the Spring 2020 survey, which asked: “What is your age?”
Eighty-six respondents answered this question. A majority of our respondents (37) reported that they were between the ages of 18 and 24 (42.5%), no doubt because survey recruitment was organized through a field school held at Drexel University. Nearly 80% of survey respondents were under the age of 45: 15 respondents reported they were between the ages 25-34, 18 respondents reported they were between the ages 35-44, five respondents reported they were between the ages 45-55, five respondents reported they were between the ages 55-64, five respondents were between the ages of 65-74, one respondent was between the ages 75-84, and no people surveyed were over the age of 85. This distribution in age of respondents is distinct from many other studies of household energy use, which have often failed to capture data from younger demographic groups.
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 Spring 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.