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From : EFL Jan. 06. 1992 01:7)4 PM P02 • - 1111111 Decision Resources i t . EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This study contains the results of a survey of 500 randomly selected cable residents of the Cities of Fridley, Spring Lake Park, New Brighton, and Mounds View. The sample was stratified to include 100 respondents from each community and an additional • . 100 senior citizens across the area. Hence, the composite random sample of the four cities contained 400 residents, while the senior sample included 146 residents. Survey responses were gathered by professional interviewers between December 3, and December 11 , 1991. The average interview of residents was sixteen minutes . Random samples such as this one yield results projectable to the entire four cities area within + 5. 0 percent in 95 out of 100 cases; among seniors, it is projectable to within '+ 8 . 3 percent with the same confidence. Area Residents: The four cities encompass a highly heterogeneous population. The average age of adult residents was 44 . 4 years old. Almost one-half of the population was within the 31--50 year age range. The median longevity in the area was 13 . 5 years, with about one- quarter new to the four communities during the past five years. One-quarter of the residents moved to the four cities from Minneapolis ; a similar percentage moved from other Northern suburbs. Twelve percent reported moving between the four communities ; of this group, the majority had spent ten years in their former community before moving to a neighboring community. A—veryhigh seventy-one-percent ofthe -sample- --had no intention of moving 'during the next ten years4 in fact, only nine percent indicated a potential move during the next two years. Twenty-one percent of the households contained over sixty year olds ; but, only one-half that number were composed exclusively of seniors. -School-aged children- could be found in twenty-nine percent of the households, while fifteen percent indicated the-pres-enc-e of p-re-schoolers. ---Orgy--fi-f-teen percent-of---- --- - - the sample rented their current residences. The occupational structure of households Gab btep a great degree of diversity: five relatively equal groups were found and -- Professional- Technical , Owner-Manager, a le-rical-Sales , rilue Collar, and Retirees . The same diversity of prior occupations was found in retired etirev households .eWomen outnumbered men by eight percent.. J_ogrSyhT aly+ Fridley households were forty-one percent of the samples New !Si i tore, w....+.r y ene percent, Nom 1: _ View,w, ninete"en percent , and Spring Lake Park, ten percent