[OSM-talk] from Allan Mustard regarding the OSMF survey

[k127 at gmx.de]

Allan, thank you for the feedback on some metrics, which inspired me make a modest proposal:

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.

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).

If you think this might help, you can find the file here: https://www.mapplications.org/limesurvey_question_123.lsq.gz <https://www.mapplications.org/limesurvey_question_123.lsq.gz> (for at least one month)


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?
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.


Best

Klaus


> Am 22.01.2021 um 20:19 schrieb Allan Mustard <allan.mustard at osmfoundation.org>:
> 
> Thank you all for spreading the word on the OSMF 2021 survey.  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 (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.
> 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 https://osmf.limequery.org/281662 <https://osmf.limequery.org/281662>  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!
> 
> Many thanks again for your support.
> 
> cheers,
> apm
> 
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