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

[Allan Mustard]

Thanks, Klaus,

I'd love to do that...I am not a software developer so don't have a clue
as to how to integrate that into LimeSurvey.  Perhaps you could video
conference with me so we could discuss--I would not know where to begin,
and don't want to do something that cripples the survey in the middle of
it!  LimeSurvey doesn't have a built in list of countries--we
looked--but it does have the map function so the best we could do with
the built-in capability was to ask respondents to click anywhere in
their countries of residence, since the country is all we really want. 
LimeSurvey collects those lat-long coordinates, and Jean-Marc has built
a reverse geocoder so we can turn the coordinates into the name of the
country.

Now, what you propose would be great to incorporate into future surveys,
and I would be very keen to work on that with you.  Not having to
convert lat-long coordinates would be a relief.

Regarding creating a table of participants for mass mailings, we can
only do that with Foundation members, not with the general public--there
are some legal issues in certain countries.  We examined the idea of
emailing Foundation members, but were concerned that this could lead to
selection bias. We are thus publicizing the survey through social media,
the talk lists, and whatever networks we can reach.  I have posted a
notice on the main page of the wiki, in the calendar, and we have
submitted a pull request for a banner on osm.org.  I ask that everybody
continue to help publicize the survey.  It is especially important to
publicize it in other languages than English, in communications channels
local communities use.

Please PM me if you're willing to video conference with me about your
idea--I'd like to pursue it.

cheers,
apm

On 1/22/2021 4:16 PM, k127 at gmx.de wrote:
> 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
>> <mailto: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  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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