Canvass Response Rates by Stage from 2012 to 2016

This request has been withdrawn by the person who made it. There may be an explanation in the correspondence below.

Dear Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead,

I am requesting the date that each stage of the canvass was sent and responded to between 2012 and 2016 (inclusive), in order to model and analyse the costs incurred through the canvass, and trends thereof.

For each year, I require:

1) The date and method by which each stage of the canvass was sent (i.e. the day that the forms were delivered to the postal service, tagged as initial form, first reminder, or second reminder, or the day that door-knocking began, tagged as house visit). If not possible, date of export from the Electoral Management System (EMS).

e.g.
method,date,number of houses
Initial HEF,01/08/2012,123456
First Reminder,05/09/2012,24680
...

2) The number of responses received on each day of the canvass, broken down by:
a) Current ward if possible, or across the local authority if not.
b) The method of response (postal, to canvasser, in person, online, etc.).

e.g.
ward,method,03/08/2012,04/08/2012,05/08/2012,...
Ascot and Cheapside,post,0,0,4,...
Ascot and Cheapside,online,5,16,45,...
...

Part 2 of the data should be obtainable by direct query of the EMS database, part 1 is presumably recorded as part of correspondence with external printers.

Your time and co-operation in this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Yours faithfully,

S. Chishty

foi, Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead

Dear Sir/Madam

I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your information request - it has been allocated reference FOI71071

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 provides 20 working days to process requests - this period expires on 17/7/2017.

Regards

Martin Tubbs
Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead

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Dear Mr Tubbs,

Please accept my apologies for any work that this request may have put you to. I am currently pursuing an alternative avenue to acquire this data, so please consider this matter closed.

Yours sincerely,

S Chishty

foi, Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead

Thank you for letting me know.

Regards

Martin Tubbs
Information Governance Manager
Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead
Town Hall, St Ives Road
Maidenhead
SL6 1RF
01628 796945
07773 257457

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