I completed it anyway; I just guessed a bit for that part!
Ah, I didn’t mean suggesting any ranges, but allowing people to enter either a single number or a range.
Those other people seem to have had very limited ideas about how people live, but that appears to happen a lot. There’s currently a study in the EU about the use of IT in small companies (1-50 people) and about half the questions are irrelevant for companies with no employees (everybody is a partner) or with only one person (like every freelancer in the place). Those designs distort their own results by not accepting all the answers that are actually possible, while not limiting the pool of respondents to people for whom only the answers deemed acceptable are valid. Exaggerating, imagine a test where half the questions were along the lines of “have you ever felt discriminated against for your left-handedness?” which wasn’t limited to lefties.
I’m a stay at home mom, so how can I answer questions about whether my work keeps me away from my family? My work IS my family!
Is it American only or can a Scandinavian fellow play?
Well, then, I’ll add my two cents: I answered “family” to mean “any family” because I don’t have a spouse or kids. However, my sisters and parents live close by and I’m very close to them.
I wish the questions hadn’t been so “one-size-fits-all.” Since I work at home, there’s usually no real division between my work time and non-work time . . . especially when I have a short attention span.
Some N/A answers would have been nice, or just an I’m not sure option for a few things. But I did the best I could.
Given that it’s for a university in London, I’m assuming everybody can play. Whether it is London UK or London, Ontario
Yeah I’m a stay-at-home freelancer (well, mostly stay-at-home. I do teach a once-a-week class elsewhere and I’m about to leave the country for a week on business, but…) so a lot of the questions were difficult for me. Given that my work week can be anywhere from 3 hours to 30 hours depending on if I have a project in the works, the “in the last week…” data is pretty useless in my case.
Also questions about my “colleagues” were not really answerable.
Hopefully the data is in some way useful anyway. I did try.
Are you answering this survey during your work-time? would be a fitting question to ask in the survey
along with… ‘and how do you feel about that? guilty? indifferent? pleased to get away with it?’
I’m hampered a bit by the fact that I can’t use as description either of the two phrases that would sum up the purpose of the survey beautifully, on the grounds that to do so would entirely prejudice people’s responses. Suffice it to say that to everyone who (rightly) raises issues about the definition of ‘family’ and anyone who struggled to define work and non-work time… that’s the heart of what I’m looking at. It’s a huge area of study and none of the current research or the currently used terminology is entirely satisfying.
I’m in London UK, but none of the hypotheses are directly related to location, it just might be a confounding variable (it’s looking so far like it isn’t, actually) so all responses welcome from wherever you are.
Thanks again to everyone who has been interested enough to take the time to respond to the survey and to make comments. I’m really truly grateful and the responses have been better than I’d even hoped for.