AGENCY TESTIMONY
Demographic breakdown of respondents to CORE's engagement efforts
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Linda Tigani provides a detailed demographic breakdown of the 4,212 respondents who participated in CORE's community engagement efforts. This diverse pool of respondents helps ensure that the community equity priorities reflect New York City's population.
- Respondents represented diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, ages, genders, educational levels, and boroughs
- 35.5% identified as Black or African American, 20.6% as Hispanic or Latinx, 10.2% as Asian American
- 55.7% were women, 21.7% were men, with small percentages of other gender identities
- 46.4% of respondents reported having a disability or chronic condition
- Respondents represented various ancestries and spoke multiple languages
Linda Tigani
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Over a four month period, CORE received feedback from 4,212 respondents.
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We partnered with 42 organizations across five boroughs, which yielded two twenty CEP community conversations.
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In total, CORE spent $410,000 on the first cycle of community organizing and engagement, dollars 3 and 90,000 went to community organizations, and $20,000 in administrative costs.
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Now I would like to highlight the diversity of our respondent pool which we believe is why community equity priorities are in fact reflective of the New York City population.
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Out of 4,212 respondents, 35.5 identified as black or African American, twenty point six percent identified as Hispanic or Latinx, ten point two percent identified as Asian American, five point eight percent as white, and 5.7% identified as multiracial.
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Less than 1% of respondents identified in each of the following categories, Middle East or North African, American Indian or Alaskan, adopted or unknown, and native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.
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With respect to diversity of age, 8% of respondents are between 10 to 17 years old, 21.3% are 25, 70 eight point seven percent were 25 years or older, 17.4% are 65, and eighty six point two percent are 65.
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Women made up 55.7% of our respondents, men made up 21.7%, and less than 1% of respondents identified as non binary, genderqueer, trans man, trans woman, agender, or multiple genders.
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Respondents reflected a diversity of educational experience, as well as disability and chronic conditions.
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With respect to diversity of education, 17.8% of respondents highest level of education was twelfth grade, seventeen point six percent reported having a high school graduate or similar degree, twelve point eight percent reported some college, eleven point five percent reported having a bachelor's degree, ten point three percent reported having a postgraduate degree, and five point three percent reported having an associate or trade school degree.
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Upwards of forty six point four percent of respondents stated that they have either a disability or chronic condition.
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We offered respondents the opportunity to share if they were multilingual and their ancestry and ethnic origin.
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Respondents' ancestry included but not limited to Caribbean, Chinese, Lebanese, Central European, Jewish, and Filipino.
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The preferred language of respondents includes but is not limited to Arabic, Cantonese, Urdu, and Wolof.
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Bronx respondents made up 23.5% of the respondent pool followed by Brooklyn at 22.4%, Queens excuse me, Queens at 15.2%, and Staten Island at 8%.
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The task force on racial equity and inclusion neighborhoods made up 58.3% of the total response pool.
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All questions were voluntary and respondents were provided the option preferred not to answer.
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Core organizing and engagement practices center diversity, equity and inclusion to hold New York City government accountable towards becoming a multiracial democracy.
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We used a Likert scale which asked respondents to identify their level of agreement or disagreement with the proposed priority and open ended questions.
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Respondents shared additional requests including but not limited to a call for reparations, lowering the cost of living, ensuring students with individualized education plans receive their services on time, and increased childcare supports.
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Over 80% of community members agreed with 13 of the draft community equity priorities and 68 to 78% agreed with three draft community equity priorities.
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Core worked with the Institute for State and Local Governance to analyze 4,212 Likert scale responses and 1,500 open end responses.
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To support the developing racial equity plan, CORE led briefings on what we heard from community.
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Two internal briefings were conducted for racial equity planners representing city agencies responsible for drafting plans.
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We held two public virtual share outs for interested members of the public, which was also open to government staff.
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For more information on our virtual share out, please see our recorded session available for the public via our YouTube page at Commission on Racial Equity.
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Following our briefings, CORE drafted updated CEP language for the commissioners to workshop with the public prior to finalizing.
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In addition to 4,212 responses, CORE produced 16 draft community equity priority data profiles to provide a baseline understanding of each priority using publicly available data.
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We have begun assembling existing data and data that offers insights into the historical and current inequities.
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Profiles can also be found on our website at nyc.gov backslash core.
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The information provided was used by core's commissioners to make final edits to the language and vote to approve 18 community equity priorities on 11/20/2024.
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The commissioner's vote on final community equity priorities can also be found on our YouTube page at Commission on Racial Equity.
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Community feedback on the draft priorities is also outlined in a summary sheet which is available via our core website.
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I would like to now provide an overview of the challenges we faced in the 2024 racial equity planning process.