3.2.1.1. Profile of the Respondents
The majority of the respondents’ age are between 45-59 and the minimum number of participants are above 60. Male respondents are 7,4 % more that female respondents. Survey questions were answered by people from wide range of cities both in Turkey and abroad. Most of the participants are live in Izmir, Turkey, followed by Istanbul and Ankara. According to the responses, there are 19 people from different countries such as Cyprus, Hungary and Germany who contributed to the online survey. Number of people who are student, worker and retired are nearly even with a small dominance of workers. The majority of the workers have an occupation in the field of education with their description of jobs: academicians, lecturers and teachers. It is followed by government officials and engineers. People who have been placed in the group named “Other” describe their jobs as technician, businessman, manager, archaeologist, interpreter, contractor, psychologist, painter, secretary, sportsman and social media specialist. The greater part of the participants doesn’t have any disability. Predominantly, people have two kids who are above 18, mostly female and don’t have any disability.
3.2.2. Questions about Public Spaces
This section consisted of general questions about all public spaces in relation their usage. There were 8 questions. Criteria aimed to measure participant’s use of public spaces according to frequency of use, their company, sitting arrangements in public spaces and participant’s priorities in a public space in terms of negative and positive means. Only pictures were shown and explanation of the pictures that are in italics were not given to the respondents. Questions and their results can be graphically depicted as follows.
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