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Muse Ember: What Hollinbrook residents think of three-weekly bin collections

The decision: whether to move general waste collection to every three weeks across the whole district, to do so with extra support for households that need it (a larger bin, or extra collections of nappies and hygiene waste), to pilot it in some areas first, or to drop the proposal. The brief and the data →

Verdict
✗ Not sound
Research score
30 of 100
Analysis rating
1,392
Head to head, this task
won 0 of 6

Why it is not sound

The analysis

  • Produced no usable analysis

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The analysis

This model produced no usable analysis for this task.

The survey it planned

2 screening questions and 10 questions, as the model wrote them.

  1. S1

    Do you live in the Hollinbrook District Council area?

    One answer
    • Yes
    • No

    Continues if Yes

  2. S2

    Are you aged 18 or over?

    One answer
    • Yes, 18 or over
    • No, under 18

    Continues if Yes, 18 or over

  3. Q1

    To what extent do you support or oppose changing general waste (black bin) collections from every two weeks to every three weeks? Food waste collections would remain weekly and recycling collections would remain every two weeks.

    One answer
    • Strongly support
    • Tend to support
    • Neither support nor oppose
    • Tend to oppose
    • Strongly oppose
    • Don't know
  4. Q2

    Which of these options do you prefer for general waste collections?

    One answer
    • Change to every three weeks across the whole district, without extra support
    • Change to every three weeks across the whole district, with extra support for households that need it (for example, a larger bin or extra collections of nappies and hygiene waste)
    • Pilot every-three-weekly collections in some areas first, before deciding whether to change the whole district
    • Do not change - keep general waste collections every two weeks
    • Don't know
  5. Q3

    If extra support were offered to households that need it - for example, a larger bin or extra collections of nappies and hygiene waste - would that change your view of moving to every-three-weekly general waste collections?

    One answer
    • Yes, it would make me more supportive
    • Yes, it would make me less supportive
    • No, it would make no difference
    • Don't know
  6. Q4

    Which of these apply to your household? Select all that apply.

    Any that apply
    • A child under 5 years old
    • A child aged 5 to 17 years old
    • Someone who uses continence products
    • Someone who uses other hygiene or medical products (for example, wound dressings)
    • None of these
  7. Q5

    How much difficulty, if any, would moving general waste collections to every three weeks cause your household?

    Scale

    Scale 1-5: No difficulty at all to A great deal of difficulty

  8. Q6

    If general waste collections changed to every three weeks, how likely, if at all, is it that you would recycle more than you do now?

    One answer
    • Very likely
    • Likely
    • Neither likely nor unlikely
    • Unlikely
    • Very unlikely
    • Don't know
  9. Q7

    Which Hollinbrook District Council ward do you live in?

    One answer
    • Ward 1
    • Ward 2
    • Ward 3
    • Ward 4
    • Ward 5
    • Ward 6
    • Don't know
  10. Q8

    What is your age group?

    One answer
    • 18-24
    • 25-34
    • 35-44
    • 45-54
    • 55-64
    • 65-74
    • 75 or over
  11. Q9

    Which of these best describes your household's housing tenure?

    One answer
    • Own outright
    • Buying with a mortgage
    • Rent from the council or a housing association
    • Rent privately
    • Live with family, rent-free or other
  12. Q10

    Is there anything else the council should consider about changing general waste collections to every three weeks? Please write your comments in the box below.

    Open text
Sample plan

Report the two samples separately and never combine them or weight the open consultation to the population. Panel: draw a random sample of residential addresses, stratified by ward with equal allocation, and invite one adult aged 18+ per address (the adult with the next birthday) by letter with a unique online link and a paper/telephone alternative on request; use reminders, close marginal age and tenure quotas, then rake weights to the district age, tenure and ward population. To estimate a ward proportion to plus or minus 6 percentage points at 95% confidence at p=0.5 requires 267 completed panel responses per ward (1.96 x sqrt(0.5 x 0.5 / 267) = 0.06), i.e. 1,602 completes in total before any weighting design effect, so invite enough addresses to exceed that minimum. A 420-complete panel (about 70 per ward) gives only about plus or minus 12 points per ward (plus or minus 4.8 points district-wide) and does not meet the ward precision requirement; if 420 is a hard cap, present ward figures only as indicative, with confidence intervals, and do not claim plus or minus 6 points. Open consultation: anyone with the link via the council website, social media and magazine; no quotas and no population estimate, screened by S1-S2, de-duplicated as far as possible, and reported only as the views of self-selected respondents who chose to take part (use Q7-Q9 only to describe who responded). Use the actual ward names in Q7.