Recent Surveys


Coastal Cape Fear Quality of Life Survey, Fall 2001

A telephone poll of randomly selected households in the coastal areas of New Hanover, Pender, and Brunswick counties. The results are based on interviews with approximately 244 respondents. The sample error is about 6%. This poll is the most recent poll in a series that began in 1995.

Specific questions that were used in interviewing. Summaries of subjects' responses to questions about the quality of life in the area. This series includes their overall satisfaction, perceptions of past changes, and expectations about future changes. This series reports on what respondents mentioned as the most important problem in the area. Also, it records how they viewed a number of specific problem areas. These areas included education, housing, traffic, and environmental quality. This series tracks popular perception of in local government officals. This series reports the activities of respondents, mainly those activies which use the outdoors. This series reports the perceptions of respondents on environmental issues. This series provides information on characteristics of the sample. A number of questions about other orientations in the community.

Convention Center-Hotel Project Poll. A telephone poll of randomly selected households in New Hanover County conducted during February, 2001. The poll's sponsor was the Convention Center Development Team. The results are based on interviews with approximately 700 respondents. The overall sample error is about 4%.

Specific questions asked in the survey.
Broad characteristics of the respondents.
How the people in the survey answered the questions.