Countybudget simulator drew 14,800 page views and 294 submissions but design limits skew results

Sedgwick County staff presented early analytics from the county's first online budget simulation, saying it reached about 14,809 page views and produced 294 completed submissions during a May launch that was later extended by a week.

Dr. David, who led the presentation at the June staff meeting, told commissioners the tool recorded a total of roughly 974 hours and 55 minutes of time on the simulation and showed a median on-page time around four minutes. "This is very, preliminary," he said, and described the data as a starting point for internal improvements and for the recommended budget stage.

The nut of the presentation: the simulation achieved substantially more reach than in-person outreach but produced a relatively small number of full submissions. Among submitters, county staff reported that 71% identified as residential property owners, 22% as non-owners and about 6% as both residential and commercial owners. Ownership responses at exit were close to 70% owners and 16% renters. Age and education among submitters skewed toward middle-age and higher education: 30-49-year-olds made up about…