2011 Membership Survey

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2011 Membership Survey Results

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The Membership Survey is held annually as a way to formally capture the membership’s thoughts and ideas on all aspects of the organization in a consistent format to be utilized by Executives and the Board of Directors in making decisions at the Administrative Meeting. It typically runs in the beginning of the year, to reflect thoughts from the prior calendar year; the 2011 Membership Survey was run from February 1st to the 15th 2012.

This report is designed to provide an overview of the results of the survey, compare against the previous year results and show how the results were utilized at the Spring Administrative Meeting. For the sake of being thorough and consistent, the survey results will be provided in alphabetical departmental order.

The 2011 Membership Survey had 212 respondents, as there were 571 members of the Tower as of January 1, 2012, this means that the respondents made up 37% of the Tower population. It should be noted that there were 253 respondents; however 41 of those did not complete the survey. Additionally, the Tower population statistic does not include Citizens and guests. In comparison, the 2010 Membership Survey had 208 respondents out of 641 Tower Members or 32% of the Tower population. This shows that we had more people participating in the survey in 2012 than in 2011.

Demographics

The following charts show the breakdown of respondents based on rank, affiliation, age, location, sex, education, and field of work.

We can see below that the majority of respondents are senior members, which was the case in both 2012 and 2011. This is not surprising as senior members make up the majority of membership.

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Both years saw that a large segment of respondents to the survey either chose not to provide their affiliation or did not have one. In 2012 for any respondent that did not self select as a senior member did not have an option to select an affiliation, whereas in 2011 affiliation was an option to all respondents. The drastic decrease from 2011 to 2012 in no affiliation would be due to this change in the survey, so that aspired Accepted and Soldiers would not have this option, nor would a self selected guest. Additionally it can be seen that the ratio of senior member affiliation in respondents reflects that of the Tower.

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The majority of respondents both years are within the age range of 25 to 34, which accurately reflects Tower membership age spread.

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Both years saw that the majority of respondents came from Canada, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

2010: USA 65%, UK 8%, Norway 5.75%, Canada 4.7%, and Sweden 3%

2011: USA 65%, Norway 5.5%, Canada 5%, UK 4.75%, and Sweden 3.5%

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The remaining countries respondent rates from 2010 and 2011 are below. Both years saw a total of twenty countries that had respondents.

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