Week 3 Delving Deeper into the Data
I put some time aside to have a look through our poll results and create a spreadsheet to which I could cross-examine our results to see if any insights can be drawn out.
Some of the things I found were:
35 out of the 40 participants who use their car for 2 trips a day, said that they found parking stressful, just over half of those 40 saying they thought it impacted their daily attitude.
11.1% of participants used their car for 4 or more trips a day, however surprisingly, ALL of them said that they DIDN'T think it had an effect on their daily attitude. I initially found this the opposite of what I expected, thinking that the higher the frequency - the more of the daily time spent thinking about it - the higher the attitudinal effect. Upon thinking about it, it makes sense that these people would park so frequently that they actually become accustomed to having to deal with these aspects of parking, and can't actually let it have any effect on their attitude because otherwise, every day would end in disaster. With the frequency of parking also comes confidence of parking.
Those who expressed a high level of stress when needing to find a park in time, unsurprisingly, we people who predominantly used their car to get to work or university, both things with time constraints.
We asked people to rate the stress they get from 0 to 10, from individual aspects of parking. These were:
Pre-Journey Parking Worries
Finding a park in time/close by/at all
Physically parking the car
Parking prices
Parking time expiring/risking a ticket
We found that:
62.5% of people who expressed higher levels of pre-parking journey stress also said it affects their daily attitude in some way
61.3% of people who expressed higher stress levels of finding a park in time also said it affects their daily attitude in some way
78.6% of people who expressed higher stress levels from physically parking the car also said it affects their daily attitude in some way
68% of people who expressed higher stress levels about parking prices also said it affects their daily attitude in some way
64.3% of people who expressed higher stress levels from their parking time expiring also said it affects their daily attitude in some way
Out of all the aspects of parking, 'pre-parking' and 'finding a park in time' warranted the highest stress responses, while 'parking prices' and 'physically parking the car' received the highest affirmative response for affecting daily attitude.
Please note that 'expressed higher stress levels' means that the participant selected a 5 or higher on the 0-10 scale.
14.8% of participants expressed a high-stress response to all of these parking aspects, 75% of these people stating that it affected their daily attitude in some way.
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56.7% of participants admit to breaking, or considering breaking parking laws more than half the time they park. Of these people, 56.5% say that parking stress influences their daily attitude.
21.3% of people said that parking was not a source of stress.
Of these people:
- Parking prices received the highest stress response of all the aspects, followed by tickets.
- 100% was a confident parker - only 1 of them adding they weren't confident to parallel park.
- 94% didn't feel it affected their daily attitude
- 76.5% park in public meter parking.
I still need to try and draw out some more insights and give it a harsh look as to what actually matters, and what might just be statistics you could probably guess, however I think there is some stuff to work with here.
I also pulled out a quote which stood out to me from one of our responses:
MK
Some of the things I found were:
35 out of the 40 participants who use their car for 2 trips a day, said that they found parking stressful, just over half of those 40 saying they thought it impacted their daily attitude.
11.1% of participants used their car for 4 or more trips a day, however surprisingly, ALL of them said that they DIDN'T think it had an effect on their daily attitude. I initially found this the opposite of what I expected, thinking that the higher the frequency - the more of the daily time spent thinking about it - the higher the attitudinal effect. Upon thinking about it, it makes sense that these people would park so frequently that they actually become accustomed to having to deal with these aspects of parking, and can't actually let it have any effect on their attitude because otherwise, every day would end in disaster. With the frequency of parking also comes confidence of parking.
Those who expressed a high level of stress when needing to find a park in time, unsurprisingly, we people who predominantly used their car to get to work or university, both things with time constraints.
We asked people to rate the stress they get from 0 to 10, from individual aspects of parking. These were:
Pre-Journey Parking Worries
Finding a park in time/close by/at all
Physically parking the car
Parking prices
Parking time expiring/risking a ticket
We found that:
62.5% of people who expressed higher levels of pre-parking journey stress also said it affects their daily attitude in some way
61.3% of people who expressed higher stress levels of finding a park in time also said it affects their daily attitude in some way
68% of people who expressed higher stress levels about parking prices also said it affects their daily attitude in some way
64.3% of people who expressed higher stress levels from their parking time expiring also said it affects their daily attitude in some way
Out of all the aspects of parking, 'pre-parking' and 'finding a park in time' warranted the highest stress responses, while 'parking prices' and 'physically parking the car' received the highest affirmative response for affecting daily attitude.
Please note that 'expressed higher stress levels' means that the participant selected a 5 or higher on the 0-10 scale.
14.8% of participants expressed a high-stress response to all of these parking aspects, 75% of these people stating that it affected their daily attitude in some way.
56.7% of participants admit to breaking, or considering breaking parking laws more than half the time they park. Of these people, 56.5% say that parking stress influences their daily attitude.
21.3% of people said that parking was not a source of stress.
Of these people:
- Parking prices received the highest stress response of all the aspects, followed by tickets.
- 100% was a confident parker - only 1 of them adding they weren't confident to parallel park.
- 94% didn't feel it affected their daily attitude
- 76.5% park in public meter parking.
I still need to try and draw out some more insights and give it a harsh look as to what actually matters, and what might just be statistics you could probably guess, however I think there is some stuff to work with here.
I also pulled out a quote which stood out to me from one of our responses:
“I sometimes don't want to drive because I'm
worried I won't find a park, or I'll have to park very far away. I hate having
to pay upwards of $3 an hour. It might not seem like much but It adds up. And
I'm already struggling with money as is. It just stresses me out a bit.”
MK
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