Mayor’s Office of Operations: Demographic Survey

Pursuant to Local Laws 126, 127, and 128 of 2016, certain demographic data is collected voluntarily and anonymously by persons voluntarily seeking social services. This data can be used by agencies and the public to better understand the demographic makeup of client populations and to better understand and serve residents of all backgrounds and identities.

The data presented here has been collected through either electronic form or paper surveys offered at the point of application for services. These surveys are anonymous.

Each record represents an anonymized demographic profile of an individual applicant for social services, disaggregated by response option, agency, and program. Response options include information regarding ancestry, race, primary and secondary languages, English proficiency, gender identity, and sexual orientation.

Idiosyncrasies or Limitations:
Note that while the dataset contains the total number of individuals who have identified their ancestry or languages spoke, because such data is collected anonymously, there may be instances of a single individual completing multiple voluntary surveys. Additionally, the survey being both voluntary and anonymous has advantages as well as disadvantages: it increases the likelihood of full and honest answers, but since it is not connected to the individual case, it does not directly inform delivery of services to the applicant. The paper and online versions of the survey ask the same questions but free-form text is handled differently. Free-form text fields are expected to be entered in English although the form is available in several languages. Surveys are presented in 11 languages.
Paper Surveys
1. Are optional
2. Survey taker is expected to specify agency that provides service
2. Survey taker can skip or elect not to answer questions
3. Invalid/unreadable data may be entered for survey date or date may be skipped
4. OCRing of free-form tet fields may fail.
5. Analytical value of free-form text answers is unclear
Online Survey
1. Are optional
2. Agency is defaulted based on the URL
3. Some questions must be answered
4. Date of survey is automated

依据2016年地方法规第126、127、128条，部分人口统计数据由自愿寻求社会服务的人员匿名自愿收集。此类数据可供相关机构和公众更好地理解客户群体的构成，以及更好地服务不同背景和身份的居民。

此处展示的数据通过电子表格或服务申请点提供的纸质调查表收集而来。这些调查均为匿名。

每条记录代表一位社会服务申请人匿名的人口统计数据概要，按响应选项、机构和项目进行细分。响应选项包括关于血统、种族、主要和次要语言、英语水平、性别认同和性取向等信息。

特有或限制性说明：

请注意，尽管数据集中包含了标识其血统或所讲语言的总人数，但由于此类数据为匿名收集，可能存在单个个体完成多次自愿调查的情况。此外，调查的自愿性和匿名性既有优势也有劣势：它增加了完整且诚实的回答的可能性，但由于与个人案例无关，并不能直接为申请人提供服务的交付提供信息。纸质和在线版本的调查表提出相同的问题，但对自由文本的处理方式不同。自由文本字段预期以英语输入，尽管表格可用多种语言提供。调查表以11种语言呈现。

纸质调查表
1. 为可选
2. 调查者预期指定提供服务之机构
3. 调查者可以选择跳过或选择不回答问题
4. 调查日期可能输入无效或不可读数据，或被跳过
5. 自由文本字段的OCR识别可能失败
6. 自由文本答案的分析价值不明确

在线调查
1. 为可选
2. 机构默认基于URL
3. 必须回答一些问题
4. 调查日期自动生成