The Reaction for Action survey has been open for over a month now, and has collected over 300 responses! We've decided to keep the survey open either until we reach 600 responses or the end of September. It's partially because the more responses the merrier, and also to keep working towards having a diverse, representative sample. Even though, we are hoping for more responses, I am pretty impressed by how many we have already. It speaks how to young people are looking for ways to share their experiences with sex ed and their desire to contribute feedback that could improve it for future generations.
At our meeting tonight, we took a peak at some of the data to see what it looked like. In the survey software we are using you can make a word cloud from qualitative responses, so we looked at those for the two main qualitative "write in" questions. While it was a little imperfect how it comes together and you need the context, it was still interesting! As you can see in the image below, "abstinence" appears in the word cloud but the responses were along the lines of "more than abstinence".
We spent the rest of the meeting discussing how to do qualitative analysis and then starting to code some of the data. I did qualitative analysis for my MPH research, and while it can be a slow process, it's something I've enjoyed doing. I'm really looking forward to digging into all of the data with the group and figuring out how to disseminate it!
