Contact

The State of Montana is published by Last Best Future, a Montana 501(c)(3) nonprofit that brings together people, ideas and projects to shape the state’s future. Write to us at padden@lastbestfuture.org.

Press and interviews

If you’re writing about the results, please describe them as findings about the Montanans surveyed, and link to this site. For interviews or background on the survey, email us and say what you’re working on and your deadline.

The data

Every figure on the site is available as JSON and as a Markdown report, the questionnaire is on its own page, and the weighted respondent-level file can be downloaded as CSV. Questions about how the sample was drawn and weighted are best put to Montana State University’s Social Data Collection and Analysis Services, who ran the survey independently.

Corrections

If you think a figure or a headline is wrong, email us with the chart and what you expected, so we can check it against MSU’s weighted tables.

Next year’s survey and partnerships

We plan to ask every year. To suggest a question, to help reach more Montanans, or to work with us on what the results show, email us. To hear when the next results are out, join the mailing list from the menu on the results page.