OR-hackathon-20120323

Friday 23 March

  1. Worked on ORG survey : added variable mnemonics
  2. Did a quick tally of responses to "why do you participate?" and "why don't your participate?" Each could be answered in zero to three open-ended answers. Required a little massaging of the data for questions 16 and 17 because blank answers were often coded as blanks (that is, a few spaces) and in other cases they were code n/a or na. Did a quick global edit of these. There might have been others that I missed. Bottom line: the numbers probably undercount non-answers.
Reasons Why Yes
0 1 2 3 TOTAL
Reasons Why No 0 911 42 59 1901 2913
Reasons Why No 1 36 19 27 199 281
Reasons Why No 2 38 17 29 256 340
Reasons Why No 3 198 12 24 1305 1539
TOTAL 1183 90 139 3661 5073
Reasons Why Yes
0 1 2 3 Total
Reasons Why No 0 18% 1% 1% 37% 57%
Reasons Why No 1 1% 0% 1% 4% 6%
Reasons Why No 2 1% 0% 1% 5% 7%
Reasons Why No 3 4% 0% 0% 26% 30%
Total 23% 2% 3% 72% 100%

Take away: about 6% had some reasons NO and no reasons YES. 39% had some reasons YES and no reasons NO. 37% had some of each. 18% had none. Those interested in ambivalence and the internal conversations people have about participation have about 1900 repsponses to look at.