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Ryerson Project Item 5

I feel connected to my local community.

American adults' average (mean) response was 5.17 on a scale of 0 (Disagree) to 10 (Agree). 897 responses have been collected (so far) from 2026-05-01 to 2026-09-17.

Descriptive Statistics

Mean5.17
Median5.00
Standard deviation2.52
N897
Standard error0.084

All-Time Distribution

Response 0: 50 Response 1: 35 Response 2: 65 Response 3: 80 Response 4: 96 Response 5: 140 Response 6: 140 Response 7: 129 Response 8: 84 Response 9: 50 Response 10: 28 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 140 Agreement (0 = maximum disagreement, 10 = maximum agreement) Count

Comparison to Other Items

Based on all-time mean agreement, this item ranks 88 out of 135 qualifying items and is at the 35.1 percentile.

Qualifying items have 100 or more total observations. Higher means indicate more agreement and therefore a higher rank.

Monthly Trend

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0% 50% 100% 0 5 10 2026-05 response 0: 5.1% 2026-05 response 1: 3.9% 2026-05 response 2: 6.8% 2026-05 response 3: 7.0% 2026-05 response 4: 10.7% 2026-05 response 5: 13.5% 2026-05 response 6: 16.1% 2026-05 response 7: 17.5% 2026-05 response 8: 11.8% 2026-05 response 9: 5.1% 2026-05 response 10: 2.5% 2026-06 response 0: 4.7% 2026-06 response 1: 3.6% 2026-06 response 2: 6.9% 2026-06 response 3: 11.3% 2026-06 response 4: 10.8% 2026-06 response 5: 17.7% 2026-06 response 6: 15.7% 2026-06 response 7: 13.3% 2026-06 response 8: 7.2% 2026-06 response 9: 5.5% 2026-06 response 10: 3.3% 2026-07 response 0: 9.5% 2026-07 response 1: 3.2% 2026-07 response 2: 7.9% 2026-07 response 3: 6.3% 2026-07 response 4: 12.7% 2026-07 response 5: 15.9% 2026-07 response 6: 14.3% 2026-07 response 7: 6.3% 2026-07 response 8: 11.1% 2026-07 response 9: 7.9% 2026-07 response 10: 4.8% 2026-08 response 0: 6.8% 2026-08 response 1: 6.8% 2026-08 response 2: 10.8% 2026-08 response 3: 9.5% 2026-08 response 4: 5.4% 2026-08 response 5: 18.9% 2026-08 response 6: 14.9% 2026-08 response 7: 12.2% 2026-08 response 8: 6.8% 2026-08 response 9: 4.1% 2026-08 response 10: 4.1% 2026-09 response 0: 9.3% 2026-09 response 1: 2.3% 2026-09 response 2: 7.0% 2026-09 response 3: 7.0% 2026-09 response 4: 16.3% 2026-09 response 5: 9.3% 2026-09 response 6: 14.0% 2026-09 response 7: 14.0% 2026-09 response 8: 9.3% 2026-09 response 9: 9.3% 2026-09 response 10: 2.3% May 2026 Jun 2026 Jul 2026 Aug 2026 Sep 2026 Observation month Percent of responses Monthly mean

Observed Trend

Observations suggest unchanging agreement over the observed period, from 2026-05-01 to 2026-09-17. The estimated change over that period is -0.466 points on a 0 to 10 scale. Regression results place a 95% confidence interval around that observed-period change of [-1.132, 0.201].
Regression table

The daily slope annualized over 365.25 days is -1.223 points per year, with a 95% confidence interval of [-2.974, 0.528]. 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 
-5.314 -1.956 -0.006  1.796  5.104 

Coefficients:
                  Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)       5.317438   0.138805  38.309   <2e-16 ***
days_since_start -0.003349   0.002443  -1.371    0.171    
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Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 2.521 on 895 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.002096,	Adjusted R-squared:  0.0009807 
F-statistic:  1.88 on 1 and 895 DF,  p-value: 0.1707