<div dir="auto">Trust is the most important thing in surveys. To get accurate surveys you need to select the target group with care to get a random sample and then you need to think about the response rate. Running the same survey in Canada and the US the response rate was above 90% when Stats Canada ran it in Canada. In the US it was done by a private company and the response rate was around 60%.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The problem is those missing 30% are probably the most interesting ones and it takes away from the authority of the results. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So if you're an academic do you want to base your PhD on a survey with low response rates or would you prefer to run your own?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The software choice is basically irrelevant.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The first step has to be to talk to the academics and see how they would like to see a random sample generated and what safeguards they can come up with to get the response rate to a reasonable standard.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Have you thought about languages by the way or that in many parts of the world governments are not trusted?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'm not sure if the above can be addressed but it might be worth thinking about in the planning stages.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheerio John</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 Jan 2018 12:40 pm, "Clifford Snow" <<a href="mailto:clifford@snowandsnow.us">clifford@snowandsnow.us</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Joost,<div>I like your suggestion. I've use Lime Survey in the past. It is a solid package. It's easy to create and modify questions in different formats. The web interface is easy for users to understand. </div><div><br></div><div>Setting it up on a linux machine isn't too hard. I've done it once on an AWS ubuntu instance, although I'd also be happy to defer to someone with more experience.</div><div><br></div><div>Let me know how I can help.</div><div><br></div><div>Clifford</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 7:21 AM, joost schouppe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joost.schouppe@gmail.com" target="_blank">joost.schouppe@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>There has been some talk on surveys and the like in the OSM ecosystem, and it was mentioned that it might not be a problem to set up a survey engine ourselves. This would make it easier to survey different kinds of mappers, as well as have some sort of common ground between researchers and OSM, and make it possible to pool questions about similar subjects so as to avoid over-surveying people.</div><div><br></div><div>So I would like to formally propose we do that. I'm a big fan of the open source Limesurvey package. I've only used it as a user, but if I can get an OSMF machine, I'd be willing to see if I can set it up. But I would be more than happy to leave it to more experienced people.</div><div><br></div><div>To discuss all the stuff related to this, I just asked for the creation af a science mailing list, as described on the mialing lists wiki page.</div><div><br></div><div>Last, maybe we need a separate working group to handle the basic infrastructure. Some of the data on that server will be privacy-sensitive. It is perfectly possible to have different roles for different people, so it would only need to be one or two people who need access to the sensitive stuff. A similar non-disclosure agreement to the one used in the MWG might be enough.<span class="m_-6460988209740179633HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_-6460988209740179633m_160468347342843244gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Joost Schouppe</div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/joost%20schouppe/" target="_blank">OpenStreetMap</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/joostjakob" target="_blank">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pub/joost-schouppe/48/939/603" target="_blank">Link<wbr>edIn</a> | <a href="http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/members/97979802/" target="_blank">Meetup</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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