{"id":950,"date":"2009-01-14T10:12:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T10:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2009\/01\/14\/delta-states-delta-rural-poll-scheduled-for-jan-feb-2009\/"},"modified":"2013-09-03T12:55:27","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T12:55:27","slug":"delta-states-delta-rural-poll-scheduled-for-jan-feb-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2009\/01\/delta-states-delta-rural-poll-scheduled-for-jan-feb-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State&#8217;s Delta Rural Poll scheduled for Jan.\/Feb. 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The Delta Rural Poll (DRP), a telephone survey of residents living in<\/font><span> 11<span> Miss<\/span>issippi<span> counties, will begin Jan. 20, 2009. It will continue for three to four weeks. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span>The DRP is an effort led by Delta State University&rsquo;s Institute for Community-Based Research in partnership with the Division of Social Sciences and<\/span><span> the<span>Center for Community and Economic Development. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span>Launched in 2003, the telephone survey occurs every other year. It arose from<\/span><span> the<span>recognition of the need to obtain socioeconomic data from individuals and households across the <\/span>Delta.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span>T<span>he Wolfgang Frese Survey Research Laboratory at Mississippi State University&rsquo;s Social Science Research Center collects the telephone survey data. A random sample of households is selected to participate from <\/span>11<span> counties in the Delta region (Bolivar, Coahoma, Humphreys, Issaquena, Leflore, Quitman, Sharkey, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, Tunica and Washington).<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span>&ldquo;We hope that anyone contacted by Mississippi State&rsquo;s telephone interviewers will agree to participate in this extremely important survey,&rdquo; said Dr. John Green, <\/span><span>d<span>irector of the Institute for Community-Based Research. &ldquo;This is a legitimate university-affiliated study, and the information collected through this effort is critical to our understanding of the characteristics, needs and interests of people living in this region.&rdquo; <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span>Summary reports from the DRP are made publicly available and shared with students, community organizations<\/span><span>, <\/span><span>policymakers<\/span><span>and<span> others.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span>For more information concerning the Delta Rural Poll, please contact Green at (662) 846-4069, or e-mail &nbsp;<a title=\"mailto:jgreen@deltastate.edu\" href=\"mailto:jgreen@deltastate.edu\">jgreen@deltastate.edu<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta Rural Poll (DRP), a telephone survey of residents living in 11 Mississippi counties, will begin Jan. 20, 2009. It will continue for three to four weeks. &nbsp; The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39649,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions\/39649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}