Technology Access and Adoption Study Background
The Technology Access & Adoption Study surveys Seattle residents about internet and computer/device access and use, digital skills, training needs, safety, and civic participation. Read the newest report.
You'll find four sections of links below to data and materials used for the City's community research. They include:
- Data explorer dashboard - This is great way to start to explore what you're interested in! This Tableau dashboard of survey results has two tabs: one for questions about households and another for questions about individuals. Instructions are also provided below. The dashboard includes a large amount of key measures, but doesn't present all the data points in the survey. Visit the Dashboard, detailed survey report, and the crosstab banners listed below for more detail.
- Full data sets - Include the Survey data set and codebook, as well as the Focus Group participant-coded responses.
- Crosstab banners - Include Excel workbooks to look up the number of responses to any survey question crossed with other questions and by population, area, or Council District.
- Materials used, including the questions for the survey and focus group, plus outreach and data collection mailings, flyers, and facilitation guides.
We share these to help you explore the data and to increase transparency and understanding of how we research digital equity in the community. They are also posted here if you want to do additional analysis or to conduct your own community data gathering.
Datasets
Explore the full data set of the 4197 Seattle resident survey responses available on the City’s Open Data site. Data is available to view or download, and be used with the codebook and instructions below.
How to use this Dataset (Link will download full instructions and a survey codebook in an Excel Workbook format.)
Focus group data: An Excel workbook with all responses from the 40 focus groups, coded by qustions and population groups is also available for download here.
Data Explorer Dashboard
Explore the results through a dashboard of interactive graphs, maps and other displays of key survey measures. Data can be explored using the instructions below.
Explore the Household metrics or Individual Metrics using the tab at top left.
Instructions: How to Use the Tableau Dashboard (Link will download instructions in PDF.)
Crosstab Banners
Explore Banners (Crosstabs of the survey result data provided in Excel spreadsheets)
These allow you to examine the number of responses to specific survey questions by different groupings. The first set of 7 banners are answers for the household and banners 8-14 are for answers related to individuals.
Household Banners (1-7):
Banner 1 by Focused Populations
Banner 2 by Demographics (Council Districts, Income, Federal Poverty Level (FPL), Children in Household, etc.)
Banner 3 by Housing Situation, Language, Housing Situation, Federal Poverty Levels (FPL), Race and Social Equity (RSE) Area Groups
Banner 4 by Internet Connections and Subscriptions
Banner 5 by Digital Opportunity Score Groups
Banner 6 by Demographics (Council Districts, Age, Gender, Race/Ethnicity, etc.)
Banner 7 by Comparing 2018 and 2023 Study Results
Individual Banners (8-14):
Banner 8 by Focused Populations
Banner 9 by Demographics (Council Districts, Age, Gender, Race/Ethnicity, etc.)
Banner 10 by Housing Situation, Language, Housing Situation, Federal Poverty Levels (FPL), Race and Social Equity (RSE) Area Groups
Banner 11 by Internet Connections and Subscriptions
Banner 12 by Online Activity Level, Digital Skills, and Digital Concerns
Banner 13 by Language of Survey
Banner 14 by Comparing 2018 and 2023 Study Results