[Ansteorra] Fwd: SCA 2010 Census results are Live

[Ysabeau]

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From: Ysabeau <lady.ysabeau at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:31 PM
Subject: SCA 2010 Census results are Live
To: Barony of Bryn Gwlad <bryn-gwlad at lists.ansteorra.org>, "Kingdom of
Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>, Shire of Ffynnon
Gath <ffynnon-gath at ansteorra.org>


July, 2011

Greetings unto the Known World,

In July 2009, the SCA Census 2010 Committee was formed by the Board of
Directors to develop a census-level survey to help the SCA move forward into
the next decade; to identify, address and work on current issues; to gain a
deeper understanding into what makes the SCA what it is today; and to delve
into the reasons for joining, remaining in, and leaving the SCA.

The survey was fielded via the internet via Survey Monkey on August 1, 2010
and ran until December 1, 2010. Data coding, data cleaning, and identity
security edits were performed on the 17,821 completed surveys in the 1st and
2nd Quarters of 2011.

Be assured that the survey data collected or published will remain
completely anonymous and will not be sold or shared beyond this survey's
purpose. Because answers that will identify individual respondents cannot be
released, the Committee decided it was absolutely necessary to take some
extra time to work with experts in the field of data and identity security
to parse the data into releasable data sets or at least data summaries.

The Census Committee is proud to present the first release of data from the
SCA 2010 Census. Accompanying this release are a slide deck with charts and
graphs; a key findings document; a copy of the initial survey; a basic data
run of the responses to the survey and some in-depth data tables which offer
insights into further findings. These files can be downloaded
below<http://www.sca.org/scacensus2010/#below>.


There were a great many people spending a great amount of their scarce
personal time in the process of creating, conducting, and processing the
survey and its results. On behalf of the SCA 2010 Census Committee, we would
like to express our deepest and most sincere gratitude to all the volunteers
who literally donated months and months of their lives to help with the
survey process (and especially to those who supported our volunteers as they
coded the data).

The Census Committee will continue to process the data over the coming
quarters in order to provide more detailed analyses and actionable insights
and recommendations for society and kingdom officers, as well for as the
general populace, relating to other topics measured by this survey. Data and
findings will be released as they are finalized; please check back on
http://www.sca.org/scacensus2010/. Our goal in the next releases is to offer
deep dives into key topic areas including those regarding Peerage and
Consort policy options.

If you have any questions or comments, requests or suggestions for special
or specific analyses or future surveys, offers to help, or feedback about
the SCA 2010 Census please send them to scacensus2010 at sca.org.

Thank you, Lisa Sawyer
(Ysabeau of Prague)
Chairman, SCA 2010 Census Committee