City of Tempe 2023 Business Survey Data

<div><p>These data include the individual responses for the City of Tempe Annual Business Survey conducted by ETC Institute. </p><p>These data help determine priorities for the community as part of the City's on-going strategic planning process. Averaged Business Survey results are used as indicators for city performance measures. The performance measures with indicators from the Business Survey include the following (as of 2023):</p><p><b>1. Financial Stability and Vitality</b></p></div><div><ul><li>5.01 Quality of Business Services</li></ul></div><div><br /></div><div><span style='font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;'>The location data in this dataset is generalized to the block level to protect privacy. This means that only the first two digits of an address are used to map the location. When they data are shared with the city only the latitude/longitude of the block level address points are provided. This results in points that overlap. In order to better visualize the data, overlapping points were randomly dispersed to remove overlap. The result of these two adjustments ensure that they are not related to a specific address, but are still close enough to allow insights about service delivery in different areas of the city.</span><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div style='font-family:inherit; font-size:16px;'><b>Additional Information</b></div><div style='font-family:inherit; font-size:16px;'>Source: Business Survey</div><div style='font-family:inherit; font-size:16px;'>Contact (author): Adam Samuels</div><div style='font-family:inherit; font-size:16px;'>Contact E-Mail (author): Adam_Samuels@tempe.gov</div><div style='font-family:inherit; font-size:16px;'>Contact (maintainer): </div><div style='font-family:inherit; font-size:16px;'>Contact E-Mail (maintainer): </div><div style='font-family:inherit; font-size:16px;'>Data Source Type: Excel table</div><div style='font-family:inherit; font-size:16px;'>Preparation Method: Data received from vendor after report is completed</div><div style='font-family:inherit; font-size:16px;'>Publish Frequency: Annual</div><div style='font-family:inherit; font-size:16px;'>Publish Method: Manual</div></div><div><a href='https://gis.tempe.gov/design/data-dictionary/Business%20Survey%20(2023)/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'>Data Dictionary</a><br /><br /><p style='margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:1.5rem; font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;'><span style='font-family:inherit;'><b>Methods:</b></span></p><p style='margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:1.5rem;'><font face='inherit'><span style='font-size:16px;'>The survey is mailed to a random sample of </span></font><font face='Avenir Next W01, Avenir Next W00, Avenir Next, Avenir, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif'><span style='font-size:16px;'>businesses</span></font><font face='inherit'><span style='font-size:16px;'> in the City of Tempe. Follow up emails and texts are also sent to encourage participation. A link to the survey is provided with each communication. To prevent people who do not live in Tempe or who were not selected as part of the random sample from completing the survey, everyone who completed the survey was required to provide their address. These addresses were then matched to those used for the random representative sample. If the respondent’s address did not match, the response was not used.</span></font></p><p style='margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:1.5rem; font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;'><span style='font-family:inherit;'>To better understand how services are being delivered across the city, individual results were mapped to determine overall distribution across the city.</span></p><p style='margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:1.5rem; font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;'><span style='font-family:inherit;'><b>Processing and Limitations:</b></span></p><p style='margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:1.5rem; font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;'><span style='font-family:inherit;'>The location data in this dataset is generalized to the block level to protect privacy. This means that only the first two digits of an address are used to map the location. When they data are shared with the city only the latitude/longitude of the block level address points are provided. This results in points that overlap. In order to better visualize the data, overlapping points were randomly dispersed to remove overlap. The result of these two adjustments ensure that they are not related to a specific address, but are still close enough to allow insights about service delivery in different areas of the city.</span></p><p style='margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:1.5rem; font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px;'><span style='font-family:inherit;'>The data are used by the ETC Institute in the final published PDF report.</span></p></div>

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Organization: City of Tempe