Palmerton Area Chamber of Commerce issued the following announcement on Sept. 21.
2010 self-response rate next to this week’s self-response rate (9/21). We are at 96.8% enumerated, with 68.8% of that coming from our self-responses (28.0% attributed to non-response follow-up).
o Since May 17 (beginning of this tracker), we’ve seen an average 6.7% increase in county self-response rates
- Highest increase was Sullivan with 14.2%
- Lowest increase was Lycoming with 4.8%
o 24 counties are at or above their 2010 self-response rates
o 15 counties within about 1% of their 2010 self-response rates
o 11 counties have a self-response rate below 60.0%
o 10 counties still have an estimated 100,000+ non-respondents
Original source can be found here.
Source: Palmerton Area Chamber of Commerce