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Paper surveys were used. When the data collector was unable to obtain a completed survey from the sampled customer, he /she attempted to survey the next customer instead. Situations requiring this type of substitution included customers who did not speak English, refused to participate in the survey, or did not live in Orange County. Substitution was discouraged and data collectors were trained to be persistent and try to get at least the key piece of information from the sampled customer. A survey was deemed "complete enough" if the data collector was able to ascertain whether or not the customer lives inside town limits; substitutes were not sought in situations where this information was determined, even if the respondent was unable or unwilling to answer the remainder of the survey questions. The number of substitutions at all sites was low, ranging from 0 to a maximum of 3 per site per day. In total, 1,335 surveys were completed during the 2 week data collection period.. The number of surveys completed at each site by day of week is shown in Table 1. Table 1. Number of Surveys Completed by Site and Day OCSWM staff reviewed the survey forms and keyed the data into an online data entry program provided by the Odum Institute. Only six forms had to be omitted due to data collector error making it unclear whether the customer lived inside or outside town limits; all other forms were of good quality. WEIGHTING Data collectors recorded the total number of customers who entered each site each day of data collection. These totals allowed us to generate precise weights for each survey date and site. The weight was generated simply by dividing the total number of uses for the day /site by the number of surveys completed for that day /site. Due to good fidelity to prescribed data collection procedures, the weights varied little from the expected values based on the sampling design —that is, a weight of "5" for surveys at most days /sites and "15" for Eubanks Rd and Walnut Grove Church Rd on Saturday and Sunday. One exception was that the Bradshaw 5 Monday Tuesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Total Bradshaw Qu. 31 27 37 31 126 Eubanks 70 86 88 73 35 24 376 Ferguson 55 44 65 61 225 High Rock 59 49 75 20 203 Walnut Grove 76 92 86 83 38 30 405 Total 146 323 174 276 250 166 1,335 OCSWM staff reviewed the survey forms and keyed the data into an online data entry program provided by the Odum Institute. Only six forms had to be omitted due to data collector error making it unclear whether the customer lived inside or outside town limits; all other forms were of good quality. WEIGHTING Data collectors recorded the total number of customers who entered each site each day of data collection. These totals allowed us to generate precise weights for each survey date and site. The weight was generated simply by dividing the total number of uses for the day /site by the number of surveys completed for that day /site. Due to good fidelity to prescribed data collection procedures, the weights varied little from the expected values based on the sampling design —that is, a weight of "5" for surveys at most days /sites and "15" for Eubanks Rd and Walnut Grove Church Rd on Saturday and Sunday. One exception was that the Bradshaw 5