Climate Change Strategy 2023 - 2030 consultation feedback executive summary

• Gender
  • 48.9 % of respondents describe themselves as ‘male’
  • 41.9% of respondents describe themselves as ‘female’
  • 1.4% of respondents describe themselves ‘In another way’
  • 87.5% of respondents are the same gender they were assigned at birth
  • 2.7% of respondents are a different gender to what they were assigned at birth
  • 67.9% of respondents are heterosexual/straight

• Age

  • The majority of the respondents (58.6% of the total number that took part) in this survey are aged between 35-64 years. This is considerably larger than the 2021 Census figure of 36% of the Coventry population aged between 35-64 years old
  • Only 4.5% of respondents were aged 24 and under, this is considerably lower than the Census figure of 15% of the population aged between 16-24 years old

• Ethnicity & Religious Faith

  • The majority of the respondents at 71.4% are ‘White British’
  • Christians made up 33.1% of respondents
  • 32.5% were of no faith

• Disability

  • 11.6% of respondents consider themselves as ‘disabled’
  • Of those who consider themselves ‘disabled’, the majority of those listed their impairment as ‘Long-standing illness or Health condition’ (45%) and ‘Mental health condition’ (35%)
  • 2.9% of the respondents classed themselves as a ‘care-leaver’

• Marital Status and children

  • The majority at 46.3% of respondents are ‘married’
  • The majority at 98.2% had not had a baby in the past 6 months or were currently breastfeeding

Geographical representation by ward.

As can be seen from the table below (Table 2), a good coverage of all Coventry areas has been captured within the online survey.

• The areas with the highest responses were Earlsdon (9%), Binley & Willenhall (8%) and Wyken (7%)
• The areas with the least responses were Upper Stoke (2%) and Foleshill (3%)
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