We're wrapping up the survey in most languages today. According to statistics which I have not validated, we have received more than 115,000 questionnaires. I'm very pleased by this high response rate, which bodes well for future surveys.
We expect first results to be published within the next eight weeks. We've learned a lot through this process, and I am very grateful for all the help and feedback, and of course for everyone who took the time to go through the survey and forgave its imperfections. We'll try to take all feedback into account as we begin interpreting the results.
The following languages will continue running for a week or two because they had a late launch or a low response rate:
Chinese (Simplified /Traditional) Japanese Afrikaans Bahasa Indonesia Greek Esperanto
Thanks again for all help, Erik
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
We're wrapping up the survey in most languages today. According to statistics which I have not validated, we have received more than 115,000 questionnaires. I'm very pleased by this high response rate, which bodes well for future surveys.
We expect first results to be published within the next eight weeks. We've learned a lot through this process, and I am very grateful for all the help and feedback, and of course for everyone who took the time to go through the survey and forgave its imperfections. We'll try to take all feedback into account as we begin interpreting the results.
It is now 11 weeks later. Any idea when we might see the survey results released?
-Robert Rohde
2009/1/22 Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com:
It is now 11 weeks later. Any idea when we might see the survey results released?
I've sent the survey team a first set of priority questions for analysis. I haven't received an ETA yet, but I will report results as soon as they become available, and I hope it's a matter of weeks, not months, at this point. This will not yet be the full in-depth analysis, which will probably take until March/April.
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
2009/1/22 Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com:
It is now 11 weeks later. Any idea when we might see the survey results released?
I've sent the survey team a first set of priority questions for analysis. I haven't received an ETA yet, but I will report results as soon as they become available, and I hope it's a matter of weeks, not months, at this point. This will not yet be the full in-depth analysis, which will probably take until March/April.
This still feels like an awful long time. I understand the desire to do synthesis and interpretation, but is there some reason why basic summary data can't be released much faster than 3+ months? For example, the number of people choosing each option on each question. While there is value in picking apart subgroups and performing regressions (especially when you have such a huge sample size!), many of us aren't even sure what the first-order patterns will look like so it would be nice to see some data released.
-Robert Rohde
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