[Talk-us] [HOT] Surveys and studies

[Charlotte Wolter]

John,

         If someone named Allessanbdro were in charge, a study,
such as Zoe's, never would happen, Clearly, from the reactions
on the email lists, a gender topic is very threatening to a number
of members.
         I still feel we are much better off with independent research.
An internal research organization won't ask hard questions. That's
why most large organizations--businesses, government, etc.--if they
want to know what's really going on, bring in outside, independent
researchers.

Charlotte


At 05:24 AM 9/5/2017, you wrote:

>
>Do we want to set up or partner with someone as a partner,
>as is the fashionable way these days, our own base survey?
>To do it properly it would need some planning. Alessandro
>might have some ideas or contacts. Note to Alessandro this
>is very preliminary at the moment.
>As background to the OpenStreetMap mailing group I first
>posted this on HOT and the message is below. We had two
>researchers doing very similar questions and neither were
>getting the number of responses they would like.
>Statistics Canada likes to recycle or reuse survey data were
>possible, its cheaper than running yet another survey for a start.
>The implications need thinking through.
>
>So thoughts?
>
>Cheerio John
>
>
>
>On 5 September 2017 at 03:29, joost schouppe 
><<mailto:joost.schouppe at gmail.com>joost.schouppe at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi John,
>
>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:Â 
><http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/joost%20schouppe/diary/42134>http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/joost%20schouppe/diary/42134
>
>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).
>
>2017-09-04 22:20 GMT+02:00 john whelan 
><<mailto:jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>:
>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?
>
>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.
>
>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.
>
>At the very least I'm sure Zoe and Laura could 
>see if the data from their surveys could feed the other.
>
>There are other things that could be done such 
>as random sampling then following up with the 
>randomly selected sample this reduces self selection.
>
>Thoughts?
>
>Thanks John
>
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