2014 Tour of Manufacturing: Survey of Tour Hosts and Participants

Program Description:

In fall 2014, the Minnesota State Advanced Manufacturing Center of Excellence and its partners coordinated over 85 manufacturing businesses and three two-year colleges across Minnesota to provide tours of their facilities for students and educators, job seekers, other manufacturers, and the general public. This event, called the Dream It. Do It. Minnesota Statewide Tour of Manufacturing, took place from October 23 to 25, 2014. To help understand the implementation and impact of the tours, Wilder Research administered a paper-based survey to tour participants, as well as a web-based survey for the manufacturing businesses that hosted the tours. These are the materials associated with that survey, including a detailed report of findings.

Contents:

For orientation purposes, viewers should begin with the 360 Statewide Tour of Manufacturing materials summary PDF document, which offers a description of the survey, as well as contact information should more information be desired. This is provided as both a PDF and Word Document.

The 10-question Participant Survey itself is included, as both a word document and a PDF.

The 360 Statewide Tour of Manufacturing Report includes a section on survey methodology, findings, a conclusion, and data tables. Findings include Learning about the Tour of Manufacturing, preparing businesses for their tours, participation in the Tour of Manufacturing, Satisfaction with the Tour, attitudes towards manufacturing, and the experiences of the Tour hosts. Data tables cover the participant survey, cross-tabs by age, cross-tabs by gender, and host survey closed and open-ended question responses. This is available as both a PDF and word document.

Below is a list of the files contained within the .zip attachment. The size of each file is included in parenthesis.

2014 Tour of Manufacturing: Survey of Tour Hosts and Participants (6 files, 1.4 MB)

• 360 Statewide Tour of Manufacturing materials summary (360 Statewide Tour of Manufacturing materials summary.docx 539KB)
• 360 Statewide Tour of Manufacturing materials summary (360 Statewide Tour of Manufacturing materials summary.pdf 94KB)
• 360 Statewide Tour of Manufacturing Participant Survey (360 Statewide Tour of Manufacturing Participant Survey 2014.docx 198KB)
• 360 Statewide Tour of Manufacturing Participant Survey (360 Statewide Tour of Manufacturing Participant Survey 2014.pdf 52KB)
• 360 Statewide Tour of Manufacturing Report (360 Statewide Tour of Manufacturing Report 2014.docx (245KB)
• 360 Statewide Tour of Manufacturing Report (360 Statewide Tour of Manufacturing Report 2014.pdf 257KB)