That's actually quite high. I do think people in small town Iowa love to talk about their town. On phone interviews, we could get through a survey in 20 minutes - [Yet] it [often] takes about an hour.

That was a fun question. A different way of looking at the extent people trust each other is that question. Again, that's normative behavior. I know growing up we never had our door locked. That has changed.

State level legislators can use these scientifically researched results to help make policy. It's a source of information to know what's going on in rural Iowa.

What there really wasn't [information on] was 'what do people think'. We wanted to find out what it's like to live in these places from the people who live there; because they would know.

How does the community respond, and what are the social features in place?

The main goal is to find out what's going on out there in rural Iowa.