People keep asking about the racial\ethnic and national origin of #OWS supporters in our survey. We are a very diverse country with many beautiful people from all over the world. That is very much reflected in our data and we hope people can focus on what unites us and brings us together…and not try find ways to pull us apart. This is an edited word cloud with data from wave 5c of the occupywallst.org survey (Jan/Feb 2012).
In the #OWS Survey, we asked: has there been a police raid in your local Occupy Wall Street Camp? and then sought “Comments on police actions in your city or the raid:” This is a visualization of answers that started with the word “police” and gives us some sense of the kinds of responses in the OWS Survey Wave 5c (Jan\Feb 2012).
There are many reasons why people participate in OWS. Data from survey at www.occupywallst.org wave 5c.
What should be the next phase of the Occupy Wall Street Movement? opinions from wave 5c of the www.occupywallst.org survey…
— Sorry. We could not resist…Comment “left” in OWS survey 3/5/2012 1:43 AM
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OWS Survey, Wave 6, Comment made 2/10/2012 2:19 PM
We asked respondents to #OWSSurvey about their participation in the Occupy Wall Street Protests (#ows) and about their support for Occupy Wall Street. We recoded both variables into three categories (Yes, Neutral, No). Combining the information on support for OWS and participation in the protests leads to 9 possibilities. This table comes from wave 3 of the survey conducted between November 10-12 and we show the combined information on support and participation in OWS. The data suggest that 41.1% of the sample supports and also participated in OWS and another 14.5% support OWS but were neutral in their participation. Close to 32.7% of respondents told us they supported Occupy Wall Street but had not participated in the protests and another 2.7% said they were neutral in their support for OWS and had not participated in the protests. We combined the remaining four possibilities (Neutral support\Participated; Did not support\Participated; Neutral support\Neutral participation; No Support\Neutral participation) into the “other” category that includes 1.2% of respondents (70 cases). The detailed breakdown of those 70 cases appears in the table (post) below.
We asked respondents to the #OWSSurvey about their support for Occupy Wall Street Protests (#ows) and whether they had participated in the Occupy Wall Street Protests. We recoded both variables into three categories (Yes, Neutral, No). Combining the information on support for OWS and participation in the protests leads to the 9 possibilities (cells) in the table. This table comes from wave 3 of the survey conducted between November 10-12 and combines the information on support with participation in OWS. As we can see from the table, close to 46.6% of respondents that told us they supported OWS told us they had also participated in the protests, another 16.4% said they supported OWS but were neutral in terms of their participation, and close to 37% of respondents that supported OWS told us they had not participated in the Occupy Wall Street Protests. Of persons that were neutral in their support for OWS, close to 4.1% said they participated, 14.6% said they were neutral, and close to 81.3% said they had not participated in the protests. Of the 7.9% of respondents in this wave 3 of the survey that did not support Occupy Wall Street, close to 4.2% told us they had participated in the protests, 2.2% told us they were neutral in terms of their participation, and about 93.6% of the respondents that did not support OWS told us they had not participated in OWS.
We asked respondents to the #OWSSurvey about their participation in the Occupy Wall Street Protests (#ows). This table comes from wave 3 of the survey conducted between November 10-12. As we can see from the valid percent (excluding missing values), close to 41.6% of the respondents said they had participated in the Occupy Wall Street Protests, close to 15.2% were in the neutral category, and 43.2% indicated that they had not participated in the OWS protests (as of November 10-12).
