Survey Research

The OTW's 2012 Community Survey report is now available

Last year the OTW ran a large survey to collect information from its user community about their use of our projects and awareness of our activities. There were 5,895 people who answered. Some early results were reported in the Survey Sunday posts on OTW News.

A report of all the survey results is now complete and is available as a single report (5.65 MB PDF). Given that the survey contained 89 questions and all questions have one or more graphs, this is a long document (183 pages in all). However, it is broken down into sections for the various projects and also includes a cross-tabulated section. We hope it will make for an interesting read!

For those who are interested, here is a look at the table of contents:

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Survey Sunday #7: Reflections from Development & Membership

As some readers may have read about in the OTW's last newsletter, the Survey Workgroup has been going through some changes. As the new leads we, Aja and Eylul, wanted to say hello and provide a brief update. Over the past month we have been working on our analysis processes to see what can be improved. We are starting our posts again although they may come out at a slower pace until we finish our internal reorganization.

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Survey Sunday Delay

Hi, this is Julia, the lead for the OTW's Survey Workgroup. I wanted to let you know that we will be skipping our regularly scheduled Survey Sunday post this week. The reason for the delay is actually very good news: a new statistics expert has recently joined our workgroup and is now helping us review our methodology. We have decided to rework our planned posts according to these new guidelines to make better and more meaningful use of the data.

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Survey Sunday #6: OTW Website

A short update on Survey Sundays

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Survey Sunday #5: Using and Finding Things at the AO3

About the answers

This week on Survey Sunday, as requested, we're releasing the first batch of AO3 related questions. These were:

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Survey Sunday #4: Awareness of the OTW, Projects, and News

This week on Survey Sunday, we're taking a look at some stats regarding news outlets and awareness of the OTW.

These questions read as follows:

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Survey Sunday #3: Fannishness and Fanworks

This week on Survey Sunday, we're taking a look at some stats regarding fannishness and fanworks in response to the following question:

  • "Pure nosiness makes me want to hear about the results of question 4 to 9."

These questions read as follows:

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Survey Sunday #2 - membership and donations!

This week on Survey Sunday, we're taking a look at some illuminating stats regarding OTW membership: why fans join the OTW, why fans don't join, and why fans don't renew their membership. As always throughout this series, we are only offering aggregate results and summary comments rather than individual responses.

Today we're going to focus on the following submitted question:

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Survey Sunday #1: ALL the questions

Welcome to our first Survey Sunday, where you will find a list of all questions asked in the OTW Community Survey. We introduced the idea in our previous post: we cannot release raw survey data to the public, but still want to give you the opportunity to interrogate that data. So from now through December, you can ask us questions relating to survey, and we'll try and dig up the answers.

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Announcing Survey Sunday!

To everyone following news on the OTW's Survey we conducted last month, we wanted to not only provide you with some more results, but also lay out our plan going forward in terms of

1) What we can release;
2) How quickly we can release it;
3) What sort of schedule you can expect.

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