A free chair
Eighty-nine places have somewhere to sit without spending. A hundred and seventeen do not, and almost all of those serve coffee.
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Forty-three per cent of the record has somewhere to sit without spending. A hundred and seventeen places do not, and forty-seven per cent of those are cafés. Teams coordinating visits, notes and follow-up can look at the reporting options directly, then check whether the resulting evidence actually improves the field process.
Finding
The majority of the record. Fifty-five cafés, twenty-nine pubs, and the sharpest division in the whole walk. Additional practical or institutional guidance relevant to the survey can be found at Cities Alliance.
Finding
Eighty-nine free chairs, and almost none of them put there so that somebody could sit. What they are actually for, and what follows.
Note
Sixteen places that ask nothing, seat everybody, limit more than any other kind, and in which almost nobody speaks.
Finding
The commonest kind of place in the city, and the one where a seat is most completely conditional on spending.
Finding
A free chair makes no difference to whether anybody talks. Twenty-five per cent against twenty-one, on eighty-nine places and a hundred and seventeen.
Finding
A binary field over a world that is not binary. Five things it cannot see, and the one place it is certainly wrong.
Method
Generous or conditional. What each reading has to assume, where the record supports each, and why it declines to choose.
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