From jflofland at ucdavis.edu Sun Jul 6 13:41:38 2003 From: jflofland at ucdavis.edu (John Lofland) Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 13:41:38 -0700 Subject: [OldNorth] Enterprise subs & civic interest Message-ID: Old North Association Members, Recently, I happened onto some data regarding home delivery of the Davis Enterprise in our neighborhood that I think may have implications for recruiting people to be members of the Old North Association. In the form of a note, I have written up these data and suggested what they might mean I provide the note here in two forms for the convenience of people with differing computers: pasted below and attached as Adobe pdf. ____________________________________________________ Civic Interest in the Old North: Davis Enterprise Home Delivery As an Indicator a note by John Lofland, jlofland at dcn.org Recently, I picked up what seemed to be a trash sheet of paper on a planting strip near my home on E Street. Looking it at, I discovered that it was a Davis Enterprise print-out telling the carrier who on D and E streets received that newspaper by home delivery. I was surprised to see that the lists of residences receiving the Enterprise was quite short. Counting the number of residences in the 500 and 600 face-blocks of D and E, I found that 21 of the 70--which is 30%--receive the Enterprise. There was some but not much variation by face-block: 3 of 10 in the 500s of D -- 30% 6 of 24 in the 600s of D -- 25% 5 of 17 in the 500s of E -- 29% 7 of 19 in the 600s of E -- 37% Perhaps I have an incorrect frame of reference, but these percentages strike me as low. Further, these numbers make me wonder about their implications for building a strong and widely-supported and participated in neighborhood association. If subscribing or not subscribing to the Davis Enterprise is seen as an at least crude measure of the level of interest in civic matters, it would imply that achieving a neighborhood association membership greater than about a third of the residents could be a difficult task. Or, is an Enterprise subscription unrelated to a person's interest in the neighborhood? # # # -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: %CivicInterest_in_the_Old_No.pdf Type: application/applefile Size: 141 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: CivicInterest_in_the_Old_No.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 23927 bytes Desc: not available URL: