<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Allan, thank you for the feedback on some metrics, which inspired me make a modest proposal:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Since question D5 mentions that "no exact location is required", perhaps a drop-down field to select only the country instead of asking for an exact location on the map could improve acceptance.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><span class="">I can offer a question "Which country do you currently live in?" with this drop-down list. The question and country list has already been translated into the following languages: ar, bn, bs, de, el, en (base language), es, fa, fi, fr, hi, hu, id, it, ja, ko, mr, nl, pa, pl, pt, pt-BR, ro, ru, sv, swh, ta, te, tr, uk, ur, vi, yo, zh-Hans (thanks to Translators without Borders).<br class=""></span><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you think this might help, you can find the file here: <a href="https://www.mapplications.org/limesurvey_question_123.lsq.gz" class="">https://www.mapplications.org/limesurvey_question_123.lsq.gz</a> (for at least one month)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Another thought regarding the volume of participation: the survey is anonymous and therefore no participant data is linked to the responses. Is there a restriction that prevents the authors from creating a table of participants with the email addresses of all OSM users and sending out invitations to participate?</div><div class="">E.g. question D3 "Optional Demographic: How long have you been involved in the OSM project?" could thus be pre-filled based on the registration date.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Klaus</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Am 22.01.2021 um 20:19 schrieb Allan Mustard <<a href="mailto:allan.mustard@osmfoundation.org" class="">allan.mustard@osmfoundation.org</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class="">Thank you all for
spreading the word on the OSMF 2021 survey. </font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class=""><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif" class="">At the moment, after 5-1/2 days, we have 1496
responses, of which 1116 are "full", meaning they included
demographic data that will allow us to do some cross-sectional
analysis </font> (almost 29% of respondents decline to provide
demographic data). But keep spreading the word. We have 16
languages available: (English, Chinese (Traditional; Taiwan),
French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian,
Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Spanish, Turkish,
Ukrainian, Vietnamese). If you know of a group that needs another
language and can link me with someone to translate the
questionnaire, please do so! I have become adept at copying and
pasting languages I don't understand into Lime Survey.</font>
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<div class="moz-forward-container"><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class="">We needed 1067
respondents to achieve a 3% error term at the 95% confidence
level, but now I'd like for us to push for a 2% error term.
As you all know, the larger the sample, the more accurate
the estimates, and the wider we cast our net, the less the
selection bias. For that we need 4160 respondents. We have
three weeks left in the survey so it is possible if we
continue to spread the word. Please help! The URL is <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://osmf.limequery.org/281662" moz-do-not-send="true">https://osmf.limequery.org/281662</a>
Please spread the word in whatever other languages you can,
please encourage OSMers to participate, please use all
available communication channels to reach as many corners of
the OSMverse as you can!<br class="">
</font></p><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class="">Many thanks again
for your support.</font></p><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class="">cheers,<br class="">
apm<br class="">
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<i class="">Allan Mustard, Chairperson</i><br class="">
<i class="">Board of Directors</i><br class="">
<i class="">OpenStreetMap Foundation</i></font></p>
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