<div dir="ltr">Hi John,<div><br></div><div>Makes a lot of sense to me. We could possible make a kind of code of conduct for survey researching the OSM community. That could very well be part of a project Frank, Peter and I are launching: <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/joost%20schouppe/diary/42134">http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/joost%20schouppe/diary/42134</a></div><div><br></div><div>I think it would be really helpful if we set up a survey engine under the wings of the OSMF. That would make it easier to re-use surveys and share experiences and data between researchers. Also we could include a review proces before launching the questionaire, so e.g. questions can be internationalized (even if this is not a priority for the researcher themselves).</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-09-04 22:20 GMT+02:00 john whelan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jwhelan0112@gmail.com" target="_blank">jwhelan0112@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">At Statistics Canada they have a concept of respondent burden. Basically it means you try to limit the number of questions you ask people whilst still trying to get the answers in. Is this information available from another survey?<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">May I suggest a more formal arrangement where a survey is organised say every three / six months and researchers submit their questions to be included in the survey? This is done for a number of surveys at Statistics Canada and is a useful way to include one or two additional / supplementary questions to a survey.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">The advantage to the people running the studies is hopefully a wider set of respondents making their surveys more statistically valid. The advantage to the mappers are fewer messages in the mailing lists and fewer surveys asking to be completed.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">At the very least I'm sure Zoe and Laura could see if the data from their surveys could feed the other.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">There are other things that could be done such as random sampling then following up with the randomly selected sample this reduces self selection.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thoughts?<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks John<br></div></div>
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