(1) We didn’t ask people how much money they donated to individual charities, that’s right. The data is available in the github repository for the project—search for ‘github’ in the report
(2) I agree that conducting the survey at the start of the calendar year would be better. Whether we would do that depends to some extent on whether we’d want to wait six months until we start the next survey. We are tightening up the feedback loop—we’re improving the code used to analyse it every time. This year the survey was handed around quite a few people - we hope next year to have a dedicated person who can focus entirely full-time on it.
Thanks! On point (1), I downloaded the raw data shortly after posting the comment and realized that the existence of people who have donated to multiple charities makes the analysis difficult. Apologies for not doing that before posting the comment.
(1) We didn’t ask people how much money they donated to individual charities, that’s right. The data is available in the github repository for the project—search for ‘github’ in the report
(2) I agree that conducting the survey at the start of the calendar year would be better. Whether we would do that depends to some extent on whether we’d want to wait six months until we start the next survey. We are tightening up the feedback loop—we’re improving the code used to analyse it every time. This year the survey was handed around quite a few people - we hope next year to have a dedicated person who can focus entirely full-time on it.
Thanks! On point (1), I downloaded the raw data shortly after posting the comment and realized that the existence of people who have donated to multiple charities makes the analysis difficult. Apologies for not doing that before posting the comment.
If you waited until Jan 2017, would you ask about both 2015 and 2016 donations?