We are pleased to announce that raw data from the 2018 ace community census 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 2014-2017 is also available.

If you have any questions, please contact us at asexualcensus@gmail.com.

We are no longer accepting more volunteers. Thank you all!

The Ace Community Survey Team is currently looking for new volunteers, particularly people with programming or writing skills, as we try to work on our backlog of data and get out more analysis to the public.

The Survey Team is responsible for designing and releasing the Ace Community Survey each year.  The Asexual Community Survey is one of the biggest data sources of quantitative data about asexual-spectrum people, which also means there is a lot of work to be done analyzing it.

The major roles that we currently need volunteers for are:

• Basic analysis of survey data
  • We use Python for most analysis, but even people without experience in Python can learn how to use it.
• Exploratory analysis of survey data
  • We need curious people who can analyze data, and produce results that are of interest to the ace community.
• Improving code infrastructure
  • We’d like to further streamline our data analysis by writing more user-friendly code.
• Reading and interpreting text responses
  • In many places, survey respondents have the option to write text responses to questions, and these responses need to be interpreted!  No programming ability is necessary, but you must be familiar with ace concepts and terminology.
• Writing reports
  • Even when the analysis is done, we still need to summarize the results.
• Translation of reports into other languages
  • In order to make our reports more accessible to speakers of other languages, we’d like to translate them.  This is especially helpful for languages spoken by people with low English fluency.

If you’re unclear on the details, don’t worry, as we do training to help people understand the ins and outs of the survey.

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 hour for monthly team meetings.

If you’re interested, please fill out this form by the end of November, 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 2018 Survey is still open for responses!  To ensure that you have a chance to respond to it before it closes, we advise that you take it before November 15th.

We are pleased to announce that raw data from the 2017 ace community census 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 2014-2016 is also available.

In addition to the raw data, we are also making available interpreted data from 2014-2015.  That means that for questions that allowed written responses, we read those responses and coded them into categories.

If you have any questions, please contact us at asexualcensus@gmail.com.

Update: This search for volunteers is no longer ongoing.  You may still contact us to volunteer, but we may be a bit slow to respond as we currently aren’t dedicating resources to it.

Hello all! The Survey Team is currently looking for new volunteers, particularly people with programming or writing skills as we try to work on our backlog of data and get out more analysis to the public.

As you probably know if you are reading this blog, the survey team is the team that does the Ace Community Census each year. The Census is one of the major sources of quantitative data about asexuals, which also means it is a lot of work. We actually collect more data than our current volunteers have time to process, which is why we are looking for additional volunteers to join the team:

The major roles that we currently need volunteers for are:

• Analyzing survey data (primarily using Python and/or R)

• • We currently use Python 3 for most of our analysis, which is where we are currently most in need of assistance. We also use some R for our data preparation, so knowledge of R is also welcome.
• Writing up survey results, either as primary summary reports or one-off blog posts
  • No special software skills required, just a general familiarity with statistical analysis and semi-formal academic writing (think class report more than published thesis).
• Responding to data requests from researchers (by evaluating requests, sending the appropriate data, and forwarding any questions to the appropriate team members)
  • No software or statistics skills required. Mostly requires good communication skills and the ability to check for and respond to email updates ~once a week.
• Translation of the survey into additional languages:
  • We do not have the capacity to analyze additional surveys. Having an archive of data for another language may still be beneficial, or if someone with those language skills could help analyze data it would be most welcome.

If you are familiar with Python and some statistics, we strongly encourage you to help us analyze the survey. Without this we cannot complete our reports on the previous surveys. Knowledge in R is also welcome, since it has been used for data preparation.

For the reports, we just need people with good English academic writing skills – no special knowledge required, although a basic understanding of statistical analysis is recommended so that you can understand the things you are writing up.

In general, the roles in the survey team are flexible, with team members often assisting with several aspects of the survey and changing roles as needed.

Primary analysis of each year’s survey begins in late November after the survey has closed, but due to the current backlog of data we have from past years, analysis is currently conducted year-round.

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 monthly team meetings. (Note that team meetings may be more frequent in the couple of months leading up to the survey release in late october).

If you are interested in helping the survey team, please contact the Survey Team directly at asexualcensus@gmail.com. While new team members are considered on a rolling basis, we are ideally looking for volunteers who can start by September 10th. Please allow 1-2 weeks for a response.