by Heather Krause | May 22, 2020 | Project Design
We were involved in a project trying to understand the impact of a new school board program. The program was intended to reduce LGBTQ+ bullying and improve the inclusive climate within the schools. The boards wanted to know how much improvement we saw in LGBTQ+ ...
by Heather Krause | Mar 2, 2020 | Analysis, Communication & Distribution, Data Collection & Sourcing, Guest Posts
When I was a graduate student, I was studying mathematical statistics and was interested in ways to use my work as a feminist. I took several women’s studies research methods classes and asked a variety of professors how to use quantitative statistics from a feminist...
by Heather Krause | Jan 17, 2020 | Analysis, Data Collection & Sourcing, Project Design
Let’s say you are surveying 100 people out of 10,000. You want to analyse the data from your sample of 100 to get answers about the likely behaviours and preferences of the overall 10,000 person population. Part of your project focuses on equity among sexual...
by Heather Krause | Jan 10, 2020 | Data Collection & Sourcing, Project Design
We now have unparalleled access to enormous amounts of data, automatically generated and gathered, which represent sample sizes that are nearly impossible to replicate with traditional survey methods. People excitedly tell us that many major equity issues,...
by Alexia Pretari | Jan 10, 2020 | Data Collection & Sourcing, Guest Posts
What is the role of quantitative surveys in shedding light on different lived realities? Which choices made during the design of an impact evaluation affect who is represented and listened to? Data collections can make structural inequalities invisible and...
