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Ability to pay for housing

Poor/fair 29.0% 35.9% 15.2%

Good 58.7% 43.6% 45.8% <.0001

Excellent 12.3% 20.5% 39.0%

Availability of resources to help budget

Poor/fair 37.4% 38.9% 41.2%

Good 56.0% 51.5% 40.2% 0.0002

Excellent 6.6% 9.6% 18.6%

Ability to pay for education

Poor/fair 68.1% 66.7% 43.5%

Good 27.6% 26.2% 36.2% <.0001

Excellent 4.3% 7.1% 20.3%

Availability of services for people needing extra help

Poor/fair 43.9% 46.5% 29.4%

Good 44.6% 45.0% 56.6% 0.0006

Excellent 11.5% 8.5% 14.0%

Accessibility of convenient public transportation

Poor/fair 51.4% 49.0% 51.5%

Good 34.9% 41.3% 37.8% 0.7097

Excellent 13.7% 9.7% 10.7%

Ability to pay for own vehicle

Poor/fair 29.2% 35.0% 14.9%

Good 56.0% 41.7% 48.3% <.0001

Excellent 14.8% 23.3% 36.8%

Efforts to reduce poverty

Poor/fair 57.4% 62.2% 53.7%

Good 38.6% 32.7% 39.4% 0.0359

Excellent 4.0% 5.1% 6.9%

Efforts to reduce hunger

Poor/fair 37.3% 40.1% 29.1%

Good 51.7% 47.8% 52.1% 0.0216

Excellent 11.0% 12.1% 18.8%

• Those with a higher level of education rate most economic aspects in the community higher than those with 2 | APPENDIX
less education. They rated higher:
• Availability of jobs with wages that offer a good standard of living
• Ability to meet basic needs
• Ability to pay for housing
• Availability of resources to help budget
• Ability to pay for education
• Availability of services for people needing extra help
• Ability to pay for own vehicle
• Efforts to reduce poverty, and efforts to reduce hunger.

• There was no difference by education in rating of accessibility of convenient public transportation.

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