Member Survey!
In the Summer of 2006, Hour Exchange Portland along with long time member Ed Collom, a professor at USM, conducted a comprehensive membership survey on individual members of Hour Exchange Portland . Due to the recent merge, Portland West members will be surveyed later about their participation with Hour Exchange Portland.
The survey was divided into six sections: motivations, engagement, outcomes, satisfaction, community experience, and demographics. As Ed Collom states; “As far as I know, it is the most comprehensive survey ever fielded to local currency participants. Of the 505 members surveyed, 232 members completed the survey for a respectable response rate of 45.9%, exceeding most of the research conducted on community currencies.”
