I agree these would be interesting things to include.
We used to ask about income as part of our donation data section. But we’ve not included the donation questions since EAS 2020. If you like, I can provide further analyses of the income data from prior surveys. On the face of it, EA income and donations have been surprisingly low historically. But this is likely explained by the high percentage of student/very early career people in the community.
Also in 2020, we were asked to include a question about experiences of financial or employment instability as a child, which found relatively low levels. As noted in that post, we would generally recommend using a different measure if you want a proxy for SES, but this is the one we were asked to include. I do think that SES is a relatively neglected demographic (EA seems to be strikingly high SES background).
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I agree these would be interesting things to include.
We used to ask about income as part of our donation data section. But we’ve not included the donation questions since EAS 2020. If you like, I can provide further analyses of the income data from prior surveys. On the face of it, EA income and donations have been surprisingly low historically. But this is likely explained by the high percentage of student/very early career people in the community.
Also in 2020, we were asked to include a question about experiences of financial or employment instability as a child, which found relatively low levels. As noted in that post, we would generally recommend using a different measure if you want a proxy for SES, but this is the one we were asked to include. I do think that SES is a relatively neglected demographic (EA seems to be strikingly high SES background).