Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Report on Survey of Cohousing Communities 2011. Just released. A must read!

[Diane (dianeclaire]

Hi Mariana,

Here's the quote without the question marks:

In addition to the high positive correlations between sharing meals and
participating in the ongoing work of the community mentioned earlier, there
were high correlations with the extent to which a community enforces its
work requirements.

Greater enforcement of work requirements was positively related to policies
that allowed residents to buy out of work and to the number of work days
that a community scheduled. Considering these relationships as a group, they
suggest that communities with a greater the number of common activities, and
communities with stated work requirements function more effectively.


What it means is that the more meals, the more participation in work; and
the more enforcement the more participation; and the more enforcement, the
more more likely it was that the community would permit buy-out.  In other
words, meals,specified work  requirements, and buy-out provisions all vary
together in the same direction.



On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Mariana Almeida <missmgrrl [at] 
yahoo.com>wrote:

>
> Thanks, Neil and all the survey folks. This is very interesting.
>
> I would be curious to learn more about this (p 9 at the bottom):
>
> In addition to the high positive correlations between sharing meals and
> participating in the ongoing work of the
> >community mentioned earlier, there were high correlations with the extent
> to which a community enforces its work requirements. Greater enforcement of
> work requirements was positively related to policies that allowed residents
> to buy out of work and to the
> >number of work days that a community scheduled.
>
> Does this mean that communities that enforce the work requirements are more
> likely to have mechanisms by which people can buy out of the work
> requirement?  That seems like a logical thing to find, but I want to check
> because the first sentence also says something about the correlation between
> sharing meals and working and enforcement in the next sentence.
>
> And that all this means that a community may actually schedule more work
> days? Can anyone
>
> Mariana
>
>
> >________________________________
> >From: Neil Planchon CPCC <neil [at] cohousing.org>
> >To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> >Cc: Planchon CPCC Neil <neil [at] swansway.com>
> >Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 10:51 AM
> >Subject: [C-L]_ Report on Survey of Cohousing Communities 2011. Just
> released. A must read!
> >
> >Blog entry: http://www.cohousing.org/node/4181
> >Direct to survey (13 pages PDF):
> http://www.cohousing.org/docs/2011/survey_of_cohousing_communities_2011.pdf
> >
> >McCamant and Durrett Cohousing Books:
> http://www.mccamant-durrett.com/books.cfm
> >Cohousing Association or the United States: http://www.cohousing.org
> >
> >Simply outstanding.
> >Thank you so much Diane, David, Lisa, Laura, the Cohousing Association
> >and all the volunteers!
> >
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