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Table 16.1
Survey results depicting percentage wait times before doing business in the financial
district
Professional
services
Electronic
products
Wait time (at least)
Vacation
Food
Job
45 %
a
(55 %)
b
Right after
“All Clear”
20 % (80 %) 22 % (78 %) 45 % (55 %) 38 % (62 %)
One month
26 % (29 %)
24 % (56 %) 18 % (61 %) 20 % (36 %) 25 % (37 %)
Six months
11 % (18 %)
18 % (38 %) 19 % (42 %) 14 % (22 %) 9 % (28 %)
Twelve months
8 % (9 %)
15 % (23 %) 19 % (23 %) 8 % (13 %)
7 % (21 %)
Thirty six months
4 % (5 %)
7 % (16 %)
8 % (15 %)
7 % (6 %)
8 % (13 %)
Sixty months
2 % (4 %)
2 % (14 %)
4 % (11 %)
1 % (6 %)
1 % (11%)
Never in future
4 %
14 %
11 %
6 %
11 %
Sample size
(
N
)
286
286
287
285
287
a
Percentage indicating they would not wait to do business in the financial district
b
Percentage who are still waiting
Table 16.2
Levels of required incentives to consume or work in the financial district right away
Required
incentive
Professional
services
Electronic
products
Vacation
Food
Job
0 %
35 %
18 %
18 %
35 %
25 %
2%
4%
3%
3%
3%
3%
4 %
10 %
2 %
4 %
4 %
5 %
8%
0%
8%
5%
7%
7%
15 %
10 %
10 %
7 %
9 %
11 %
25 %
8 %
15 %
8 %
13 %
15 %
50 %
17 %
17 %
8 %
9 %
8 %
100 %
NA
NA
NA
NA
5 %
No amount is enough
18 %
28 %
48 %
21 %
20 %
Mean %
a
15 20 14 13 20
a
Average required % incentive for those who would consider interacting with the financial district
right away
for any level of incentive. Whereas less than one fifth indicated they would not
accept any incentive to use professional services right away. For those willing to
accept some level of incentive the average percentage required is given in the
bottom row of Table
16.2
and range from 13 % for electronic products to 20 % for
vacations. Incentive for jobs may have been a little higher because respondents had
an opportunity to select a 100 % wage increase. In the RDD study, again almost half
of the respondents indicated they would not buy food near the financial district right
away for any level of incentive. By comparison, less than one-fourth indicated they
would not accept any incentive to use professional services right away. For those
willing to accept some level of incentive the average percentage required range
from 15 % for food and electronic products to 19 % for vacations.
