Anonymous, "Have you ever received a utility shut-off notice for any of the following services? (Q36 SP 2020)", contributed by Andrew Rosenthal, Briana Leone and Alison Kenner, The Energy Rights Project, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 30 June 2021, accessed 25 August 2024. https://energyrights.info/content/have-you-ever-received-utility-shut-notice-any-following-services-q36-sp-2020
Critical Commentary
This chart reflects responses to Question #36 from the Spring 2020 survey, which asks respondents, “Have you received a shutoff notice for any of the following services?” The options listed were electric, gas, and water. Other options were “no”, “I don’t know”, and “other”.
There were eighty-four respondents and some chose more than one option.
Sixty-nine (82.1%) respondents said “no” they had never received a utility shut off notice.
Ten respondents (11.9%) indicated they had received a shutoff notice for water.
Two (2.3%) respondents did not know if they had.
Seven respondents (8.4%) indicated they had received an electricity shutoff.
One respondent (1.2%) said propane.
Two (2.4%) said they had received a shut off notice for gas.
One respondent (1.2%) mentioned accidentally getting a neighbor’s shut-off notice.
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.