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New Hampshire 2009 Civic Health Index

November 16, 2009

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Many New Hampshire communities pride themselves on their community spirit, and this ethos is reﬂected in the CHI survey data. New Hampshire residents show high levels of trust in others. Three-quarters of the respondents agreed that most people are honest (77 percent) and two-thirds agreed that most of the time people try to be helpful (66 percent) as opposed to just looking out for themselves (34 percent). Trust in others helps to foster individuals’ willingness to get engaged in community action,20 and we see this in New Hampshire. Over one-third (36 percent) reported having attended a club or community
meeting in the past year, while close to a quarter worked on a community project (26 percent) or attended a public meeting to discuss community affairs (23 percent). Additionally, 19 percent of residents said that they had worked with other people in
their neighborhood to solve a community problem (see Figure 3). Once again, education and church attendance matter in inﬂuencing community involvement. Respondents with even some college education are signiﬁcantly more likely than those without college experience to attend community and other public meetings, to work on a community project, and to work with other people in their neighborhood to solve a community
problem (see Figure 4). Similarly, churchgoers are more likely than those who never attend church to get involved in some of these aspects of community life.

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