Newsgroups: bit.listserv.edstat-l
Date:         Sat, 7 Nov 1992 14:37:00 EST
Reply-To:     Douglas Andrews <ANDREWS@WITTENBERG.EDU>
From:         Douglas Andrews <ANDREWS@WITTENBERG.EDU>
Subject:      demographic questionaire

===== QUESTIONAIRE BELOW -- PLEASE RESPOND BY NOVEMBER 20 =====

Thanks to everyone who gave me feedback on the first version of
the questionaire.  The revised versions had as many as 17
questions, some of which were quite elaborate.  For convenience
and expediency, however, I have trimmed the final version to the
6 questions you see below.  The resulting profile of our group
will of course be rather crude -- but that's all I wanted in the
first place.  So forgive me, please, if the questions don't apply
to everyone's situation perfectly.

I've structured the questions so that all the responses will be
categorical.  I've done so because I want the data in a tidy form
that I can post to the list.  To this end, I request that your
response to this survey consist of a single line of six letters.
For example, as a small-college PhD statistician teaching mostly
intro courses in a math department, I would respond to the survey
with nothing more than

   icagab

And of course -- send your single-line response directly to me,
rather than to the group.  Deadline for response will be Friday,
November 20.  Shortly thereafter, I'll post the data along with
univariate summaries for each question.

Again, thanks for all the advice and patience.

  doug andrews
  wittenberg u.
  springfield, ohio

  andrews.wittenbg           (bitnet)
  andrews.wittenberg.edu     (internet)


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1. CATEGORIZE THE EXTENT OF YOUR FORMAL STATISTICS EDUCATION:

a    no formal stat education
b    no stat degree, but some academic coursework
c    no stat degree, but courses on the job
d    BA/BS (major)
e    BA/BS (minor)
f    MS    (major)
g    MS    (minor)
h    MAS
i    PhD   (major)
j    PhD   (minor)


2. CATEGORIZE YOUR CURRENT EMPLOYMENT ENVIRONMENT:

a    unemployed
b    student
c    academia: college
d    academia: university
e    industry
f    business/managerial
g    privately contracted consulting
h    government
i    medicine
j    other


3. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING TAKES THE GREATEST PORTION OF YOUR
TIME/EFFORT AT WORK?

a    teaching (and academic advising)
b    research
c    consulting
d    computing
e    other


4. CATEGORIZE YOUR PRIMARY FIELD OF APPLICATION:

a    industry/manufacturing
b    natural/physical sciences
c    social/behavioral sciences
d    agriculture
e    business
f    environmental
g    teaching: general stat -- no particular application
h    research: general stat -- no particular application
i    other


5. WHICH LEVEL OF EDUCATION GETS THE BIGGEST PORTION OF YOUR STAT
ED TIME/EFFORT?

a    undergrad: non-stat majors
b    undergrad: stat majors
c    graduate:  non-stat majors
d    graduate:  stat majors
e    other
f    (I'm not involved in formal statistics education.)


6. CATEGORIZE YOUR ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT:

a    statistics
b    mathematics
c    natural/physical sciences
d    social/behavioral sciences
e    humanities
f    other
g    (I'm not in academia.)

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