Citizens’ Survey — Results Text Questions (Linz)

“The Stadtsenat has decided on 2011-07-07 a new citizen survey, which was carried out by the city research Linz from the end of September 2011. As with the citizens’ survey in 2004, 45,000 Linz voters were invited to participate. In total, more than 9,100 people have responded. The aim of the survey was to obtain the opinion of the Linz population on various topics, to know their wishes and concerns. This gives policy and administration an essential basis for future decisions. The citizens’ survey was conducted for the first time in 2011 in the form of an Internet survey. The Citizens’ Survey 2011 as well as the previous citizen surveys included several open questions that were not taken into account in the first evaluations. The analysis of these open questions is now also available on a small scale. Two fundamentally open questions were asked, this was Question 3 on the problems in the residential area and Question 20 on the measures to increase safety in Linz. In addition, there was the possibility to add additional remarks or notes in a completely free text area without any requirement. These text responses were divided into categories in order to be able to present or evaluate the main topics. Answers that do not show problems but underline positive things have not been presented. Questions 3 and 20, which contain most of the information, are presented below in a differentiated manner. In question 3, 28 categories were formed, and in question 20 22 categories. “