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How were responses collected and verified?

  • Survey was circulated via social media targeted to LAUSD households from March 2 - March 6.
  • Survey questions were provided in both English and Spanish.
  • Duplicate entries, invalid email addresses, and multiple entries from the same respondents using different email addresses were removed.
    • For example, if we saw jenna1@gmail.com jenna2@gmail.com, we sent test emails to these addresses and removed the ones that bounced back
    • We also removed clear examples of the same name - example of this would be nicollefefferman@hi.com and feffermannicolle@you.com
  • Final results include 2,547 unique results from 186 different zip codes throughout all seven Board Districts.
  • The results reflect only the views of those who chose to participate.

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Stronger participation in higher income Board Districts reinforces the need for different strategies and efforts to communicate with families in areas traditionally underrepresented.

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58% of respondents chose optional masking

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Survey participants indicated they were comfortable with masks being optional. (Past discussions with community members suggested that elementary students who have the lowest vaccination rates, should remain masked but this data indicates otherwise).

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60% of participants with vaccinated children chose to continue mask wearing

75% of participants with unvaccinated children or who chose “prefer not to answer”, chose masks to be optional

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Majority of participants want testing to continue in some capacity.

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Data suggests that Public Health and District officials need to evaluate existing vaccine education strategies.

Current strategies are not effective.

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The majority of families surveyed had students in elementary school.

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Additional anecdotal information

Our Spanish language survey was sent out at the same time. Our initial feedback was that collecting email addresses was hindering the process, however that was how we were determining validity. We elected to make it optional, and while our participation increased, we still ended up with only around 37 usable entries. Nine entries were determined to be false based on email addresses submitted.

Of the 37, only 5 were comfortable removing masks, 13%. This is a very different number than we saw in the wider spread English language survey.

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