The City of Bend said it wants to gather feedback about the City and City services, and is asking Bend residents to take 10 minutes to participate in an online community survey.
Community participation will help the City set priorities, the City said. Survey results will be presented to the Bend City Council in January, 2019 as it embarks on its next round of biennial goal setting.
The online survey is available in both English and Spanish from now until Dec. 22. Online survey results will complement a recently completed statistically-valid phone survey and will also be shared with the City Council.
Responses are completely confidential and no name or identifying information will be associated with responses. The online survey is being hosted by an independent, third-party research firm, DHM Research. DHM will also collect and analyze the results.
Go to bendcommunitysurvey.com to fill out the survey.
This article appears in Dec 5-12, 2018.
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Not sure how valid and useful online surveys can be. They can be manipulated by trolls. They do not give an accurate indication of community opinion, as it is impossible to weigh them according to age, income, gender, address, and other factors that would show that a representative sample of the community participated. Their true value lies in giving individuals an opportunity to sound off about issues, and individual comments are, of course, important. But don’t mistake these as characteristic of the community as a whole.