12th February 2009, 10:07 PM
Hello everybody.
The survey is over, and the votes are being counted...
Hopefully we will have finished the real report, which I'll put on Scribd, next week.
A big thing to note is that there were only a maximum of 160 respondents (maximum because not everybody submitted an answer to all the questions). I completely accept that that is due to a failure of marketing on my part, and next time around will try something else like targetting units as well to distribute surveys among their staff. It does also perhaps (maybe I'm just defending myself now, you decide
) say something about how field archaeologists are using the internet to learn what's going on in archaeology (although I imagine Hosty could probably confirm that the BAJR jobs page gets a lot more hits than any other BAJR page). As you might suspect, the overwhelming majority of respondents - 106 - came from the BAJR fora. Unfortunately there wasn't a way for me to track how many came from the BRITARCH e-mail list, but I have suspicions it wouldn't be (m)any...
If you would like a rough idea of what the report will say, I have put the summary statistics online at http://www.wikiarc.org/surveyresults I apologise that it really is just a big list of stats, and not eloquent prose. That is coming sometime soon... ish(I had to get help for that bit!).
One interesting thing, given the fact that there are a lot of BAJRites who answered, is that we're (in general - personally I don't quite fit into this) older, more experienced, more likely to be on permanent contracts, and more male than I would imagine the whole profile of the profession to be, yet a lot of us aren't better paid, or any more likely to be in the IfA or a union. And only one person *said* they were in the Digger's Forum. :face-huh:
Gosh, that was a long message.
Matt
The survey is over, and the votes are being counted...
Hopefully we will have finished the real report, which I'll put on Scribd, next week.
A big thing to note is that there were only a maximum of 160 respondents (maximum because not everybody submitted an answer to all the questions). I completely accept that that is due to a failure of marketing on my part, and next time around will try something else like targetting units as well to distribute surveys among their staff. It does also perhaps (maybe I'm just defending myself now, you decide
) say something about how field archaeologists are using the internet to learn what's going on in archaeology (although I imagine Hosty could probably confirm that the BAJR jobs page gets a lot more hits than any other BAJR page). As you might suspect, the overwhelming majority of respondents - 106 - came from the BAJR fora. Unfortunately there wasn't a way for me to track how many came from the BRITARCH e-mail list, but I have suspicions it wouldn't be (m)any...If you would like a rough idea of what the report will say, I have put the summary statistics online at http://www.wikiarc.org/surveyresults I apologise that it really is just a big list of stats, and not eloquent prose. That is coming sometime soon... ish(I had to get help for that bit!).
One interesting thing, given the fact that there are a lot of BAJRites who answered, is that we're (in general - personally I don't quite fit into this) older, more experienced, more likely to be on permanent contracts, and more male than I would imagine the whole profile of the profession to be, yet a lot of us aren't better paid, or any more likely to be in the IfA or a union. And only one person *said* they were in the Digger's Forum. :face-huh:
Gosh, that was a long message.
Matt