# Auroville/Social Research

Welcome to the social research page and work in progress about Auroville started on this page and transferred here
On this page and his talk page are accessible informations about a social research project to permit a changing team to :
* Follow the work in progress on viewing mode.
* Edit comment about the process on talk page.
* Joining the project team in and during any time for continuing the work where previous volunteers leave it and by the way continue de edit of this page.

## Introduction

This survey and research is a work in progress leading, sharing and building by switching volunteers team. The first step of the project is to fix his frame, structure and methodology to make it understandable for current and future volunteers. By the way, we hope that the project will achieve its purpose in the time needed for its completion and with the contribution of a variable contributor team.

## Methodology

After a certain time of exploration any kind of social research need a guideline to fix a certain direction and not to be lost or overbooking by the quantity of available informations. One of various tric system to fix this guideline is the formulation of a main question for the research on a single sentence.
From this single question, It will be possible to edit variety of sub-question which give partial answer to the main question. Matching with every sub-question various indicators should be created with divers method for collecting information. These methods are traditionally separated in two type : qualitative methods and quantitative methods.
Basically, qualitative methods mean collecting information by participative observation and interview (non directive of semi directive). This task need lot of time and personnel resource to meet people, charing daly live, make interview, transcription (audio to text) and analysis of qualitative data. The best is collecting of information with people who know this kind of job and have a certain experience. Research of already existing interview or analysis research can bring some time useful information and decrease work time.
On the other hand, qualitative methods mean collecting information by direct observation or survey to make statistical analyse. Usually the collect of information is not exhaustive but focus only on a representative sampling of all data available. To make sampling of data relevant, it’s very important to take care about statistic bias. That means that the sample of the population have to follow certain rule like, minimal sampling proportion, random selection or use of quota to collect information and use all different way to collect information by same proportion (phone, face to face, internet, ...).
Independently of methods, no social research is possible without source of information. For each question and each method, it’s necessary to identify the best source of information on the list of all source of information available.

## Main question

By an anonymous way in the Auroville population, how to make the share of informations more effective and close to the expectations of the population ?

### Definition of vocabulary used in the main question

Anonymous way
No divulgation of identities.
Auroville population
By priority:
* Resident (+ child)
* New comer (+ child)
* To be new comer (+ child)
* Guest
* Outsider Tourist
* Website visitor
Information
* Contain
* Activity
* News
* Official communication
* News
* Arts & Culture
* Education
* Health
* Economy
* Spirituality
* Environment
* City life
* Form
* Summary of meeting moments and decisions
* Presentations of programs
* Meetings announcement
* Profiles of aurovilan, service, project, units
* Investigative Journalism on hot topics of the moment
* Spiritual Readings
* More ?
The share
Transmission of information from everybody to everybody by all support than possible :
* Word of mouth
* Notice board
** Every community board
** Solar Kitchen &Terrace Caffe
** Center Guest House
** Visitor Center
** Indus Valley
** Quiet
** Le Morgan
* Paper
** News and notes
** Auroville Today
** Invocation
** Ritam
** La Revue d'Aurovllle
** Matrimandir Journal
** Auroville Outreach
** Pavilion of Tibetan Culture
** Farm Group Newsletter
** Annapurna Times
** Kuyil
** Land Fund Newslette
* Website
** www.auroville.org
** www.auroville.info
** www.miraura.org
** www.auroville-international.org
** www.aurovilletv.org
** www.sriaurobindosociety.org.in
** www.auroville-ce.site.voila.fr
** www.avisua.orgWww.earth-auroville.com
** www.auroville.org.in
** www.avitra.net
** www.aurovillebooks.com
** www.sciy.org
** www.aurovilleradio.org
** Tweeter ?
** More ?
Effective
* Functional
* Accessible
* Useful
* Interesting
* Clever
* Sufficient
* More ?
Expectations
* Desire
* Point of vue
* Request
* Satisfaction
* Proposes
Needs
* Type of information (See list below)
* Support of information (See list below)
* More ?

## Sub questions and indicators

* How to make information more effective ?
* What’s the information : Indicator : Consultancy and survey.
* What’s an information more effective ?
* Accessibility ? Indicator : Evolution of the consultation of media.
* Complete ? Indicator : Comparison between event, announcement and report.
* Up to date ? Indicator :
* How to make informations more close to the expectations of the population ?
* What the expectation of the population ?
* What’s the population ? Indicator : Registration data and google analytic
* What’s point of view of the population ? Indicator : Survey
* How to be close of the expectation ? Indicator : Frequent survey to Analysis satisfaction of the population *in correlation with technical and organisational changes.

## Sources of information

* Official datas from office or service
* Blue light service.
* Resident service office (Ms )
* Guest registration service (Mr Anand)
* Direct observation of auroville population
* On website Google analytic.
* Participant observation.
* Question, survey into the Auroville population
* Face to face
* By phone
* By Internet
* Other ?

## Sampling

The best method that would be closer to the reality of the opinion of the entire population of Auroville from consulting a sampling would be to establish a stratified sampling based on the different characteristic and identifiable répertoriable within the population to establish mutually exclusive groups.
With the information collected from the registration service of the inhabitants of Auroville, it is possible to establish this following stratification by:
* Status (aurovilian, New comer, To be new comer)
* Age
* Gender (female, male)
* Nationality
* Home community
* Activity (Type of work and workplace)
* Seniority in Auroville (date of entry)
According to an online calculator , with a 95% confidence level and an error rate of 5% (standard value applied in most polls), the number of people that make up the sample is expected to be 330.
Of these 330 people ideally chosen by random selection to allow probabilistic treatment processing, and always according to data reviewed by the Registration Service should be provided that the sample of 330 people.
The sheet contained all the analysis of the evolution of aurovilian population and the composition of the 330 people sampling is accessible on this page
Comment about the graph available on Auroville Radio (only in French).