[OSM-talk] On the 2021 OpenStreetMap Foundation community survey

Wed Feb 17 19:03:04 UTC 2021

Alan &c -- 
Thanks so very much to everyone who helped made this happen. The total number of total responses is encouraging. It would have been so great to have more women participate, as well as more people from outside the EU/NAM region, but the fact that we have reached 50% of responses from outside those regions is a great step forward for us as a community. I am sure the translations have helped a great deal. 
Looking forward to seeing the result summary.
--
  Martijn van Exel
  m at rtijn.org


On Tue, Feb 16, 2021, at 18:50, Allan Mustard wrote:
> First off, many thanks to everyone who participated in the OSMF 2021 community survey, which ended on February 14th.  The Board is busily analyzing the results, and I have posted a notional schedule for release of anonymized data and statistics on the Board wiki at https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/2021_Survey_Results#Plan_for_Presentation_of_Survey_Results.  If there are specific desires for summary statistics, please let me know, and we'll consider adding them to the list of analytical tasks if they are judged to be of general interest.  We recognize that there may be summary statistics of interest to people that cannot be derived from anonymized data.  Before peppering me with questions about how the data will be anonymized, please read https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/2021_Survey_Results#Anonymization_of_Survey_Data_to_Preserve_Privacy.
> 
> Second, I thank all the volunteer translators who rendered the survey into 15 foreign languages from the original English:  Beyza Emin (Arabic), Dennis Raylin Chen (Chinese), Jean-Marc Liotier (French), Tobias Knerr (German), Harry Mahardhika Machmud (Indonesian), Alessandro Sarretta (Italian), Satoshi Iida (Japanese), Dongha Hwang (Korean), Mohammed Faisal (Kurdish), Mateusz Bartczak (Polish), Eduardo Addad de Oliveira and Vitor George (Portuguese), Miriam Gonzelez (Spanish), Said Turksever (Turkish), Andrey Golovin (Ukrainian), and Minh Nguyen (Vietnamese). The Persian was a machine translation, and I provided the Russian translation, for a total of 18 languages.  This is the broadest array of languages offered in any OSM survey to date.
> 
> LimeSurvey reported 2,958 full responses, with 4,228 total responses.  Upon downloading the data, we found 2,958 responses to all mandatory questions, and smaller numbers with demographic data.  For example, 2,284 people provided the country of residence (which we will use for parsing some of the responses), and 2,831 replied to "What is your gender?"  Roughly 1,270 people started to take the survey but broke off before completing the mandatory questions, with the result that these entries provide us with no data.  With well over 2,200 full responses, however, we have a very robust set of data, and look forward to sharing it in spreadsheet form soon.  We will release raw data and normalized data simultaneously, and both spreadsheets will be anonymized to protect the privacy of respondents.
> 
> A few advance tidbits:  
> * Out of the 2,958 who provided some demographic data, 2,489 identified themselves as mappers, or 84 percent.  This is a mapper-driven project.
> * Based on the demographic data, people from 121 countries responded.  The largest number from any single country reside in Germany (411), and 1,080 (almost 1/3 of respondents providing demographic data) reside in the European Union.  Fuller information on countries represented in the survey can be found here: https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/2021_Survey_Results#Countries_participating
> * Out of the 2,831 respondents who declared gender data, 232 (8.2%) are women, 2,522 (89.1%) are men, 44 (1.5%) are non-binary, and 33 (1.2%) are other.
> * 614 members of the OSM Foundation responded to the survey, i.e., slightly less than 1/3 of the OSMF membership.
> 
> Results will be posted to https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/2021_Survey_Results as they are ready.  Our top priority is preservation of anonymity in order to respect the privacy of all respondents to the survey, followed by a desire to share the results as expeditiously as wel can.  

> Again, many thanks to all who participated in the survey.

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