Introduction to Proxy Variables

by Heather Krause | Jun 12, 2020 | Analysis, Data Collection & Sourcing, Project Design

In my early years of analyzing data, I worked on a project that was designed to improve women’s self-empowerment. We needed to develop some data that would help us understand the potential impact of the project. Measuring self-empowerment is not a straightforward...

Framing Research Questions that Reflect Who is Expected to Change

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+ ...

In Conversation with Catherine Harnois

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...

Keeping Data Inclusivity Without Diluting your Results

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...

Why Big Data Needs Small Data

by Heather Krause | Jan 10, 2020 | Data Collection & Sourcing, Featured, 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,...