Anonymous, "Are you or the owner of the building where you live deferring maintenance on the building due to COVID-19? (Q43 Sp2020)", contributed by Andrew Rosenthal, Briana Leone and Alison Kenner, The Energy Rights Project, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 30 June 2021, accessed 23 July 2024. https://energyrights.info/content/are-you-or-owner-building-where-you-live-deferring-maintenance-building-due-covid-19-q43
Critical Commentary
The chart reflects responses to Question #43 from the Spring 2020 survey, which asked: “Are you or the owner of the building where you live deferring maintenance on the building due to COVID-19?” The pre-structured options were, “Yes, due to financial constraints”; “Yes, due to a stay at home order”; “Yes, due to fears of COVID-19”; “No, no maintenance was scheduled”; “No, maintenance work is going on as planned”; “I don’t know”; and “other.” Respondents could select multiple answers.
There were eighty-four responses.
Nine respondents (10.1%) said yes, because of the stay at home order.
Three respondents (3.4%) said yes, due to financial restraints.
Eight respondents (9%) said yes, due to fears of COVID-19.
Forty respondents (48.7%) said no maintenance was scheduled.
Eighteen respondents (21.4%) said that maintenance work was going along as planned.
Seven respondents (7.9%) reported they did not know.
One respondent (1.2%) said yes but did not specify why.
One respondent (1.2%) simply said no and did not elaborate on why.
And two more respondents (2.3%) said that they have had to do the maintenance themselves.
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.