[game_edu] New Demographics Report?

[Jason Della Rocca]

Hi all,

Oh yes, would be awesome to do a refresh on the workforce demographics
survey! Actually, it was always the plan to do it every year...

As a bit of background, the survey was NOT handled by the SIGs.

Out of the blue, I got an email from an anthropology student who was
looking to do a summer internship/co-op (paid for by the school) and
wanted to come work at the IGDA and look into the question of gender
in games.

After discussing options, we settled on the idea of doing a more
comprehensive demographics survey and report. He did the bulk of the
survey creation and administration. And he worked with the Women in
Games SIG and Diversity Committee and the Accessibility SIG to get
their input/feedback on the questions.

The student also did the bulk of the analysis and the first draft of
the report before his internship was done. I did the final version of
report. Again, the various SIGs/committees had a chance to review
drafts and provide feedback.

Not sure relying on a SIG to do it will get us very far... Good news
is that we did post the survey file and the raw data online. So,
re-administering it and crunching some comparisons will be less
painful....

Regards,
Jason


On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Bill Crosbie <bill.crosbie at gmail.com> wrote:

> Beth,

>

> This is a great idea.  That report came out of the diversity SIG.  I

> know there was talk on the IGDA facebook stream asking about the

> status of both the LGBT and Diversity SIGs and there were several

> people discussing the need to reboot/kickstart that group.

>

> I'll post a request and see if anyone from that group picks up on

> it/gets back with some more information.

>

> Bill

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> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Beth Aileen Lameman

> <beth at bethaileen.com> wrote:

>> Hey everyone! I hate to throw out an idea that I have no resources to

>> follow-up on myself, but...

>>

>> I frequently use the Diversity Survey/Demographics Report

>> (http://archives.igda.org/diversity/report.php) as a reference in

>> articles and it's starting to feel awfully outdated. 2005 was forever

>> ago! (Scary.)

>>

>> I am hoping that someone out there will be able to take on running a

>> new survey and following up with reports.

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