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Graphical Results of the Texas House Administration Committee COVID-19 Member Questionnaire
August 20, 2020 | By: Jim Henson, Joshua Blank

On August 14, the Chairman of the House Administration Committee, State Rep. Charlie Geren (R-Ft. Worth), released the results of a survey of House Members' responses to a range of questions about the operation of the House in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. A copy of the results was published by Harvey Kronberg's Quorum Report  the same day. The questionaire included 38 questions, with 13 (!) open-ended items. We've created graphics for most of the responses, including the open-ended responses, which were coded into categories when appropriate. (Some of the questions were simply general inquiries.) Each graphic below includes the question and the number of respondents to that item. Based on the released results, 116 of the 150 House members responded at least partially to the questionnaire, though not all of the respondents answered all 38 questions.

Fair warning: some of the graphics for the open-ended questions, which we've put at the top of the post since these items weren't coded in the QR release, are a bit unweildy as a result of the length of the stem (i.e. the question), the tendency of most questions to invite mulit-part responses, and our desire to split more than we lumped in order to capture some of the nuance of the open-ended responses.

Compilations of responses to multiple close-ended questions.

Open-ended questions

 

Closed-ended questions

 

 

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