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How will the survey be administered? The survey will be administered by mail. A postcard is sent to randomly selected househiolds announcing that a survey will follow. The first survey comes a week later and is followed b la "reminder"' survey one week after that., Data collection by phone is s alsio an option. I w an p,eoipille in our jurisdiction will receive the mailing? The basic service includes a sample size of 1,,200 residents. However, we also offer the option olf a sample size of 3,000 residents at an adiditional cost. How, many, rlespionses can we expect With a sia,mple size, of 1,200, we typically receive about 400 responses. For a sample size of 3,000, we expect approximately 1,000 resipionses, The actual number varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. The response rate will depend partly on the amount of publicity, you provide ahead of time. What about people who don't speak English? We lolffer a Spianish-language version of the survey instrument as a service option. Let us know if y'ou. are interested in other languages. What kind of report will we get? You will get three separate reports. can see sam ples of these final reports at icrria.org/nics. An execiutive summary briefs you on results. A comprehensive -report inc,luides survey blackground, survey methods, local results and appendices. Local results are presented in tables and graphs. A third report, intended. for internal use or for public information purposes, at the manager's discretion, compares local results to norms biased on NRC 5i s database of over 350 survielys conducted throughout the United States. Can we, Icolmn pare the results of The National Citizen SurveyTM to the results of surveys we Idid in the, past? Yes. As, an option, we can convert most service evaluiatilons to, The NCS'M measure- mient scale for comparisons over the last 3 administrations to The N CSTII results.