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Page 7│Kittitas County Air Quality Survey│9/30/2014 Methods The KCPHD Assessment Coordinator designed the community survey questfons with assistance and feedback from Ecology and the Kittitas County Air Quality Committee (see Appendix A). The Assessment Coordinator also referenced similar studies done in the Pacific Northwest to inform the type and placement of questfons:  Britfsh Columbia Woodstove inventory and Behavior Analysis (Envirochem Services, 2012)  Inventory of Wood-burning Appliance Use in Britfsh Columbia: Report of Findings (Mustel Group, Market Research, 2012)  Department of Environmental Quality Residentfal Wood Combustfon Survey: Results Report (PSU Survey Research Lab, 2009)  Wood Smoke Awareness & Behavior: Survey of Wood Burning Households in Washington State (Elway Research, Inc., 2010) The final survey consisted of 25 questfons. The questfons were primarily multfple choice with the exceptfon of one Likert scale with six items. Survey takers were also given the optfon to write in answers that were not provided in the multfple choice questfons. Recent census data estfmates the current populatfon of Kittitas County at 42,100 residents6. In order to achieve results with a 95% confidence level, a sample size of 381 individuals was needed. A mixed approach was used for survey distributfon and collectfon in order to maximize responses and achieve this number. The survey was put into two formats: electronic and paper (see Appendix B). The primary mode of collectfon was sent out through an electronic survey via Survey Monkey™. Emails were sent out to eight different community listservs. Fliers and handouts with the survey link were distributed to 22 local businesses and agencies. In order to reach those individuals without computers, paper surveys were placed along with survey collectfon boxes at strategic locatfons around the county. A total of fifteen boxes were placed in fourteen different community outreach locatfons (see Appendix C). Collectfon boxes were emptfed each week untfl the survey was closed. Paper surveys were also sent by mail to residents identffied as having received woodstoves through a free woodstove exchange program. These surveys included self-addressed envelopes with paid postage to allow respondents to send in the completed survey free of charge. Paper surveys, once collected, were entered into Survey Monkey™ in order to better analyze the data. It is also important to note that both the electronic survey and paper survey partfcipants were given the opportunity to enter into a drawing for $25.00 gift certfficates to local businesses as an incentfve. The survey was conducted for a tfme period of six weeks from the dates of June 1st to July 18th, 2014. Results At the close of the survey, a total of 613 surveys were collected. Of the 613 returned surveys, 89 (16%) were paper surveys. A filter was then applied to the Survey Monkey™ data in order to elimi- nate incomplete surveys as well as those completed by residents outside Kittitas County. In the end, the final survey sample size was 561 residents. The results of this sampling has a confidence level of 99% with a confidence interval of ±5.41%. In laymen’s terms, if all of Kittitas County’s 42,100 residents had completed the survey, there is a 99% chance that those results would be within ±5.41% of the results of this survey. We can have confidence that the informatfon contained in this survey results report is a fair representatfon of our county populatfon.