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Survey �ver�iew Decision Resources, Ltd., is pleased to present thc results of this study to the City of Rosevillc. This section provides a brief introduction to thc specif�cations of the survey and a guide to the organization of the written analysis. Whi1e the most statistically sound procedures have been used to collect and analyze the information presented herein, it must always be kept in mind that surveys are not predictions. They are designed to measure public opinion within identiiiable limits of accuracy at specific poinfs rn time. This survey is in no way a prediciion of opinions, perceptions, or actions at any future point in tzme. After all, in public policy analysis, the major tasfc is to impact these rcvealed opinions in a constructive fashion. The Principal Investigator for this study was Dr. William D. Morris; the Project Director overseeing all phases of the research and analysis was Ms. Diane Traxler. Research Design This stud5� contains the results of a teiephor.e survey of 401 raridomly selectcd r�sidents of the City of Roseville. Survey responses were gathercd by professional interviewers across the commur�ity between Iy1ay 20 and June 16, 1998. The average interview took twenty nine minutes. All respondents intervicwed in this study wcre part of a randomly gencrated sample of the City of Roseviile. In general, random saniples such as this yield results grojectable to thcir respective universe within f 5.0 percent in 95 out of 100 cases. Interviews were car�ducted by Decision Resourees, Ltd., trained personnel from telephone banks in St. Paul, Mittnesota. Approximately twenty percent of all interviews were independently validated for procedure and content by a DecisiQn Resources, Ltd., supervisor_ Completed interviews were edited and coded at the company's headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Statistical analysis and cross-tabulations were produced by the company's direct job entry access facility to the University of Minnesota VAX Computer System.