I actually did roughly this analysis last year and have shared the results with some donors. At the time we didn’t release it because we were still chasing up giving data from 2013 and without having completed donation reporting for that year we didn’t have that many years’ worth of data to report (i.e. it couldn’t say anything about switching to allowing online sign-ups). It also simply takes a lot of work to polish up that kind of analysis to make sure you aren’t publishing errors.
It should be public at some point (as part of the impact evaluation Michelle is working on).
It also simply takes a lot of work to polish up that kind of analysis to make sure you aren’t publishing errors.
This should make publishing the raw/cohort data more appealing—CEA doesn’t have to actually do the analysis itself, just maintain data integrity, which it should be doing as a matter of course.
I actually did roughly this analysis last year and have shared the results with some donors. At the time we didn’t release it because we were still chasing up giving data from 2013 and without having completed donation reporting for that year we didn’t have that many years’ worth of data to report (i.e. it couldn’t say anything about switching to allowing online sign-ups). It also simply takes a lot of work to polish up that kind of analysis to make sure you aren’t publishing errors.
It should be public at some point (as part of the impact evaluation Michelle is working on).
Glad to hear it!
This should make publishing the raw/cohort data more appealing—CEA doesn’t have to actually do the analysis itself, just maintain data integrity, which it should be doing as a matter of course.