[MR] SCA census...fourth peerage

[JL Badgley]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:50 AM, ericowoody at yahoo.com
<ericowoody at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Since this is my first time posting to this list I will make it short. I am a avid member of the marshal communities as I fight both heavy and rapier I also ride for the Atlantian Cav. When I completed the census I was very excited about the SCA bouncing around the thought of the fourth peerage but when the results came out I was disappointed I did not see anything on that subject. I downloaded all the links and checked the several times maybe I just missed the result for that particular subject. Can anyone lead me in the right direction.
>

Please remember that the Census is still coming out.  Per the web page
with the announcement, the following has yet to be released:

Release 2: October, 2011
Strategic Recommendations for Discussion and Consideration from Release 1
In-depth Data Tables (data cross tabulations)

Future Releases: Late Fall 2011 (est) and Early 2012 (est)
Presentation Slides from new cross tabulations
Key Findings from new cross tabulations
**Additional Peerage Option questions**
**Same Gender Consort questions**
Closed-ended corporate related questions
Open-ended corporate related questions

(Emphasis mine)


There has been quite a bit of discussion about this topic on other
lists I'm on, including discussion from those who volunteered to be on
the committee or help with tabulation.  Information is coming out more
slowly than intended primarily because the committee realized that
there was too much identifying information in the survey itself, and
the SCA had promised anonymity.  Because of that, they have been
reading through the 17K+ responses to try to get rid of identifying
features.  In the 4th Peerage and Same Gender Consort questions, I
would be unsurprised to find a fair number of write-in information.
That all has to be processed manually if it is to be taken into
account.  Based on what I am hearing, I don't see anyone hiding any
information at this time.

I don't know if everyone saw the other announcement, but the SCA
Census Committee has apparently set up a time at Pennsic to discuss
their work, and I suggest interested parties either attend or contact
the SCA Census Committee directly (scacensus2010 at sca.org).

With responses totaling approximately 29% of the estimated population,
I find the responses quite interesting, personally.  Hopefully we can
use the responses effectively to move forward.  I do wish more people
had given their input.


-Ii Katsumori

PS: I just verified with my wife (who is a volunteer working on the
information, though not a decision-making committee member) and she
said that the additional peerage and other questions had more multiple
choice answers and are taking longer to tabulate; there are also some
crosstabulations that are taking a while to crunch through as well.