An overview of the survey results to this point
An overview of the survey results to this point
As of Sunday, 11 may 2014, we have reached 800 survey respondents. According to the Cluster Map data on this blog site there have been 1628 visits from 104 countries -the most frequent of which from the UK- and 551 total visits from 34 US states.
It appears that the Cluster Map data indeed reflects that many of those completing the survey are actively serving aid workers deployed around the world. As you can see to the left, the most recent visitors include me -I am currently in Costa Rica- but also souls from quite an array of locations.
As the weeks have passed I have been quite amazed that the map above has red dots from so many locations, and I can’t help but wonder to myself these questions and more:
- Who are these people and what are their lives like this moment?
- Who have they left behind to do this work and for how long?
- What trials are they facing navigating day-to-day life in the field?
- How are they coping with issues like corruption, staff dramas, field-home office communication gaps, etc.?
- Are they in danger either physically or emotionally?
- How are their lives as expats woven into those in the local community?
- How are they able to compartmentalize their lives to make sense of who they are, where they are, and where they will go?
To the extent possible our goal remains with this blog to report -and perhaps comment on- these aid worker voices with fidelity, integrity, and with the hope that we share the goal of understanding ourselves just a little better.
Here are the raw results.
801 respondents started the survey with a completion rate of 72%.
Note: All open-ended responses have been blocked. You will have to navigate using the drop-down button to see all pages.
- Click here for all quantitative data.
- Click here for the same data comparing male and female.
- Click here for the same data comparing type of aid worker.
- Click here for same data comparing work situation.
Click back here in the next several days as I begin to present and comment on both the quantitative and qualitative data.
Email me with any bits that you would particularly like to see more in depth and/or have comment concerning.
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Tom Arcaro
Tom Arcaro is a professor of sociology at Elon University. He has been researching and studying the humanitarian aid and development ecosystem for nearly two decades and in 2016 published 'Aid Worker Voices'. He recently published his second and third books related to the humanitarians sector with 'Confronting Toxic Othering' published in 2021 and 'Dispatches from the Margins of the Humanitarian Sector' in 2022. A revised second edition of 'Confronting Toxic Othering' is now available from Kendall Hunt Publishers
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