Ryerson Project
Ryerson Project Item 18
I believe healthcare should be easier for people to access.
American adults' average (mean) response was 9.12 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 566 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-09-18.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean | 9.12 |
|---|---|
| Median | 10.00 |
| Standard deviation | 1.47 |
| N | 566 |
| Standard error | 0.062 |
All-Time Distribution
Comparison to Other Items
Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 2 out of 135 qualifying items and is at the 99.3 percentile.
Qualifying items have 100 or more total observations. Higher means indicate more agreement and therefore a higher rank.
Monthly Trend
Observed Trend
Observations suggest increasing agreement over the observed period, from 2026-05-01 to 2026-09-18. The estimated change over that period is 0.693 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [0.143, 1.244].Regression table
The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is 1.809 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [0.373, 3.245]. This short-window annualized number is provided for reference, but the observed-period change above is the primary trend estimate.
Call:
lm(formula = response_value ~ days_since_start, data = model_data)
Residuals:
Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
-6.9952 -0.4583 0.8042 0.9342 1.0890
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 8.910993 0.103823 85.829 <2e-16 ***
days_since_start 0.004953 0.002001 2.475 0.0136 *
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Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
Residual standard error: 1.459 on 564 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.01075, Adjusted R-squared: 0.008992
F-statistic: 6.126 on 1 and 564 DF, p-value: 0.01361