BACK TO SECTION 6Section 7: Description of the Respondents and Their Organizations
The final section of the questionnaire solicited additional information which describes the respondents and the organizations for which they work. In other words, this section provides an overview of our sample. Detailed results of this section of the survey may be found in Appendix 2 (Organizational Characteristics) and Appendix 3 (Respondent Characteristics).Respondents represent a wide range of industries but a relatively concentrated geographic area. Key industries represented include manufacturing (13.3%), health care (11.0 %), information technology (9.5%), insurance (6.2%) and life sciences (5.7%). No other industry was represented by more than 5% of our respondents.
Slightly over 70% of respondents are from organizations headquartered in central Indiana. Only 1.4% of the sample is from northwestern Indiana, indicating a potential for geography-based bias in the results reported here.
About two-thirds of our respondents are from organizations with revenues of less than $10 million, while about 5% have revenues exceeding $500 million. See Figure 24.
26. What was your company’s 2005 revenue?
A similar pattern emerges when looking at number of employees: slightly over half have fewer than 25 employees and about 5% have more than 1000 employees.
27. How many people does your company employ?
Individual respondents primarily have job titles associated with chief executive status such as CEO, President, or Owner (79.6%). Small minorities are in positions titled Managing Director or Partner (3.8%) or Chief Operating Officer (3.8%). Nearly half (44.6%) have held their position for more than 10 years, while about one quarter (24.7%) have held their position for less than 5 years. More than three quarters are male (76.3%).
The group is highly educated. Nearly half (45.7%) have graduate degrees, 15.6% have completed at least some graduate schooling, and 30.1% have completed an undergraduate degree as their highest level of education.
28. What is your highest level of education?
Respondent Characteristics
Respondents report working just over 50 hours per week on average, with 29% working more than 60 hours per week. Respondents also report taking at least some vacation days with the majority taking between 6 and 15 business days off per year. Sixty-nine percent report having a commute time of less than 20 minutes.
