Happy Autism Acceptance Month! In celebration, we created this infographic to inform and share our data with you all. With one third of surveyed aces being on the autism spectrum we would like to spotlight the intersectionality experienced by autistic aces. This data comes for the 2019 Ace Community Survey data which will be in a report later this year, so be on the lookout! For more information on Autism Acceptance Month and autistic experiences please visit the Autism Society.
Update: The call for volunteers is now closed.
The Ace Community Survey Team is currently looking for new volunteers, specifically for people interested in translating our surveys and reports.
Our team designs and releases a survey every year, analyzes data, and produces reports. We seek to understand the diversity and well-being of ace communities, and educate activists and researchers with up to date information. We now aim to reach an even broader audience by releasing both survey and report in multiple languages.
And this is where we need you! As translation volunteer, your main tasks are:
Further details will be explained upon joining! We hold training sessions for new volunteers, and monthly meetings on chat.
Time commitments are flexible depending on your availability at any given part of the year, but we recommend setting aside at least 4-5 hours a month to do work on your own time, plus an additional hour for meetings.
If you’re interested, please fill out this form by the end of February, and allow 1-2 weeks for a response. (If you fill out the form at a later date, the response may be slower.) If you’d like more information, you may contact us at asexualcensus@gmail.com.
The survey is now closed. Thanks for participating!
Der Survey ist jetzt abgeschlossen. Vielen Dank für die Teilnahme!
La encuesta ha sido cerrada. ¡Gracias por participar!
It’s that time of year again – we are now recruiting participants for the Ace Community Survey!
The Ace Community Survey, run by the Ace Community Survey Team, collects valuable information on the demographics and experiences of members in the ace community, including asexual, demisexual, gray-asexual, and related identities. It is the largest survey of ace communities and creates a valuable pool of data for future ace community activists and researchers.
The survey is open to anyone: ace, non-ace, or still questioning. As long as you are 13 years of age or older, we want to hear from you! We want to get a wide variety of responses from as many parts of the community as possible, so we encourage you to share this link with any other potentially interested individuals you know or any ace communities you participate in.
Click here to take the 2020 Ace Community Survey:
https://forms.gle/HKrCJNCawLpXaW3w6
We recently published a report on the results from the 2017 and 2018 surveys here:
https://acecommunitysurvey.org/2020/10/29/2017-2018-ace-community-survey-report
You will be able to view any published results from the survey at asexualcensus.wordpress.com. If you would like to receive an automatic email update when new results or announcements are posted, you can subscribe here.
For answers to common questions about the survey, please see the FAQ here.
Se parli italiano e hai bisogno di aiuto nel compilare l’Ace Survey 2020 apri il link seguente in una finestra separata per visualizzare la guida all’Ace Survey 2020 in italiano: Sondaggio Sulla Comunità Asessuale
Si desea realizar la encuesta en español, por favor abra la guía de traducción al español en una ventana separada y haga clic en el botón de abajo que dice “siguiente/ next”.
Dies ist die Ankündigung für die Ace Community Survey 2020 auf Englisch, wenn Sie diese Umfrage lieber auf Deutsch bearbeiten möchten, öffnen Sie bitte die deutsche Übersetzung in einem separaten Fenster, öffnen Sie die englische Umfrage (https://forms.gle/HKrCJNCawLpXaW3w6) und klicken Sie dort auf den “Weiter”/ “Next”-Button .
Se você gostaria de responder à pesquisa em Português, por favor, abra o guia de tradução em Português em uma janela separada e clique no botão abaixo que diz “próximo / próximo”. https://acecommunitysurvey.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/pesquisa_da_comunidade_asexual_2020.pdf
As part of this year’s Ace Week, we are excited to share with you the summary results from the 2017 and 2018 Ace Community Surveys, which we are publishing together in one report:
Publishing two years of data in one report is part of our effort to get up to date with analysis for the most recent surveys. This year we have had an uptick in volunteers, which will hopefully enable us to perform additional data analysis and publish blog posts that offer a deep-dive into specific topics while we begin work on the report for the 2019 Survey.
If you are a researcher or community non-profit institution, you may request access to the data.
Many thanks to everyone who took the survey! We couldn’t have done it without you. If you are interested in participating in the 2020 Ace Community Survey, keep an eye out — we will be releasing a link tomorrow!
Here at the Ace Community Survey team, intersectionality is an essential part of our identities as it is for those in the broader ace community. This Bi Visibility Day, we have released a visibility report to challenge biphobia and increase bi awareness using data taken from the 2019 Ace Community Survey. Please enjoy and share this infographic to spread awareness of where the bi and ace communities overlap. For more information about Bi Visibility Day which is celebrated every September 23rd, feel free to visit https://bivisibilityday.com/
Click for the full size!
Special thanks goes out to Lea for data analysis and quality control, and Robin for quality control.
We are pleased to announce that raw data from the 2019 Ace Community Survey is now available for researchers wishing to perform additional analysis!
If you are a researcher and would like to request a copy of the raw data, please fill out the new data request form here. Raw data from previous years is also available.
If you have any questions, please contact us at asexualcensus@gmail.com.
This call for volunteers is now closed. If you’re still very interested, please e-mail us directly.
The Ace Community Survey Team is currently looking for new volunteers, particularly people with programming or technical writing skills.
Our team designs and releases a survey every year, analyzes data, and produces reports. We seek to understand the diversity and well-being of ace communities, and educate activists and researchers with up to date information.
The major roles that we currently need volunteers for are:
Further details will be explained upon joining! We hold training sessions for new volunteers, and monthly meetings on chat.
Time commitments are flexible depending on your availability at any given part of the year, but we recommend setting aside at least 4-5 hours a month to do work on your own time, plus an additional hour for meetings.
If you’re interested, please fill out this form by the end of April, and allow 1-2 weeks for a response. (If you fill out the form at a later date, the response may be slower.) If you’d like more information, you may contact us at asexualcensus@gmail.com.
by René Mellema & Tristan Miller
Recently, there has been a lot of discussion about the interaction between the asexual and aromantic communities. Following our review of extant aro community surveys, we contribute to the discussion by reviewing the information we have about aromantic and aromantic-spectrum respondents to the 2017 Ace Community Survey.
Although our survey recruits from asexual communities rather than aromantic communities, we are able to gather information about people on the aromantic spectrum, including some allosexual people. Some of our important findings are as follows:
Further details are below. Continue reading
The 2019 survey is now closed! Thanks to all who participated!
It’s that time of year again – we are now recruiting participants for the Ace Community Survey!
The Ace Community Survey, run by the Ace Community Survey Team, collects valuable information on the demographics and experiences of members in the ace community, including asexual, demisexual, gray-asexual, and related identities. It is the largest survey of ace communities and creates a valuable pool of data for future ace community activists and researchers.
This year, we are working in conjunction with Dr. Lauren Beach from the Institute for Gender and Sexual Minority Health and Wellbeing at Northwestern University. Our collaboration will help further research into health disparities of sexual minority groups.
The survey is open to anyone: ace, non-ace, or still questioning. As long as you are 13 years of age or older we want to hear from you! We want to get a wide variety of responses from as many parts of the community as possible, so we encourage you to share this link with any other potentially interested individuals you know or any ace communities you participate in.
Click here to take the 2019 Ace Community Survey:
https://forms.gle/PZqPREQDE6MCibSV8
You will be able to view any published results from the survey at asexualcensus.wordpress.com. If you would like to receive an automatic email update when new results or announcements are posted, you can subscribe here.
For answers to common questions about the survey, please see the FAQ here.
“Aromantic” is an identity that is often defined as lacking romantic attraction. There is also an aromantic spectrum (often shortened to “arospec”, “aro”, or occasionally, “aromantic”), which includes many aromantic-related identities such as greyromantic, quoiromantic, and lithromantic. While aro people have long existed in ace communities, in recent years there has been growing interest in the aromantic spectrum as an independent entity. In particular, there are communities that are centered around aro identities, and which strive to include aromantic people who are not on the asexual spectrum.
The Ace Community Survey Team is interested in serving aro communities, especially where our existing infrastructure makes us uniquely capable of doing so. However, we must first recognize the survey work that aro communities have already done. Our goal is to: a) highlight notable aro community surveys that have published results, b) state some of the basic results, and c) identify topics that interest the creators of these surveys.
