Aging Committee Selection: Metro Atlanta Speaks 2020
1. Listening to Pandemic Voices
2020 Results Overview
To the Aging & Independent Services Committee
January, 2021
Research & Analytics, Center for Livable Communities, ARC
jskinner@atlantaregional.org
2. Background
• Inspired by an ARC LINK Trip
• Goal: Assess Perceptions and Attitudes
• Stable core of questions with relevant
timely topics and critical crosstabs
• Now in Eighth Year (2013 incept)
• Mixed-Mode This Year, Cost Savings
• Zeroes in on the Pandemic
• Community Foundation 2020 Sponsor
3. 2020 Highlights
• COVID-19 Impacted Our World, Greatly
• It Changed How We Assessed Our
Biggest Problem/ Challenges
• Changed Our Perceptions of
Employment/ Economic Stability and
Health Situation(s)
• Laid Bare (Even More Explicitly)
Inequities in our Society…
• But We Still Have Hope for the Future
–
4. The Biggest Problem?: The Change from 2019 to 2020
12%
5%
5%
17%
5%
15%
8%
8%
16%
10%
4%
4%
8%
7%
5%
7%
9%
10%
18%
28%
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30%
Race Relations
DK
Taxes
Public Health
Other
Economy
Human Services
Public
Education
Crime
Transportation
2019
2020
6. Biggest Problem for 65+ Over Time
21.7
17.7
13.8 13.5
9.5 9.4
5.8
5.2
3.4
0.0
5.0
10.0
15.0
20.0
25.0
30.0
35.0
Crime Pub Hlth Oth DK Econ Transp Race Rel Pub Ed Human
Svcs
Tax
2020 2019 2018 2017 2016
7. Extent of COVID Impact: 2020
66.8%
24.0%
7.3%
1.9%
Major impact
Minor impact
No impact at
all
DK
8. Extent of COVID Impact by Age: 2020
66.2%
71.4% 68.7%
59.3%
23.2%
21.0% 24.4%
30.7%
7.5%
6.3% 6.1%
8.6%
0.0%
10.0%
20.0%
30.0%
40.0%
50.0%
60.0%
70.0%
80.0%
90.0%
100.0%
18-34 35-49 50-64 65+
Major impact Minor impact No impact at all DK
9. Know Anyone That Has/ Had COVID-19?: 2020
58.4%
39.9%
1.8%
Yes
No
DK
10. Know Anyone That Has/ Had COVID-19? By Age Group: 2020
50.2%
55.0%
62.8%
63.8%
49.1%
41.8%
36.1%
35.3%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
65+
18-34
35-49
50-64
Yes No DK
11. Area(s) Most Impacted by COVID-19, by Age Group: 2020
18.1%
19.8%
22.9%
30.0%
25.3%
21.4%
20.0%
6.4%
34.3%
34.1%
26.4%
19.9%
19.9%
21.9%
29.5%
41.1%
0.0% 10.0% 20.0% 30.0% 40.0% 50.0% 60.0% 70.0% 80.0% 90.0% 100.0%
18-34
35-49
50-64
65+
Health Finances Both health and finances Neither DK
12. Frequency Wearing Masks?* By Age Group: 2020
63.0%
66.3%
71.7%
76.1%
19.6%
21.4%
15.7%
14.1%
6.7%
5.6%
7.1%
3.8%
3.8%
3.0%
3.0%
1.8%
2.7%
1.1%
1.4%
1.5%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
18-34
35-49
50-64
65+
All of the time Most of the time Some of the time Hardly ever Never Don't go to these places DK
13. Delay of Medical Care? By Age Group: 2020
37.2%
39.3%
46.6%
41.1%
56.8%
57.1%
52.4%
58.0%
6.0%
3.6%
1.0%
0.9%
0.0% 10.0% 20.0% 30.0% 40.0% 50.0% 60.0% 70.0% 80.0% 90.0% 100.0%
18-34
35-49
50-64
65+
Yes No DK
14. Confidence in Ability to Pay Mortgage or Rent…By Age Group: 2020
40.3%
36.9%
25.0%
15.4%
48.6% 52.5%
63.3%
56.3%
11.1% 10.6% 11.6%
28.3%
0.0%
10.0%
20.0%
30.0%
40.0%
50.0%
60.0%
70.0%
80.0%
90.0%
100.0%
18-34 35-49 50-64 65+
Less than Very Confident Very confident Other*
15. Received Food from a Food Bank Since March:
By Age Group, 2020
23.3% 21.4%
11.4% 10.3%
74.1% 78.2%
87.8% 89.7%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
18-34 35-49 50-64 65+
DK
No
Yes
17. “Discrimination against Black People is a Serious Problem”
by Age Group: 2020
32.1%
39.3%
53.1%
64.6%
32.1%
29.8%
23.5%
25.5%
20.8%
16.2%
12.7%
4.4%
10.3%
11.4%
5.2%
3.8%
0.0% 10.0% 20.0% 30.0% 40.0% 50.0% 60.0% 70.0% 80.0% 90.0% 100.0%
65+
50-64
35-49
18-34
Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree DK
18. “How Should Police Be Best Utilized?: by Age Group: 2020
37.2%
50.5%
59.6%
66.0%
57.2%
45.9%
35.6%
28.7%
5.6%
3.7%
4.8% 5.3%
0.0%
10.0%
20.0%
30.0%
40.0%
50.0%
60.0%
70.0%
18-34 35-49 50-64 65+
Respond to all calls Leave non-violent calls to other agencies DK
19. Looking Back at the Looking Ahead Question
2%
27%
28%
44%
3%
26%
30%
41%
8%
26%
32%
34%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%
DK
Worse in 3-4 years
Better in 3-4 years
About the same
2020
2019
2018
