Survey 2010 results
Two months ago, we pushed out a 2010 survey to find out stuff that may help us plan our events to better serve you.
Most responses occurred within two weeks, and have tailed off at 38 attempts to fill the survey with about 30 complete responses.
Here is a summary of the responses:
| 1. What time works best for an event? (leave a row blank if not usually good) | ||||
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| answered question | 36 | |||
| skipped question |
1 |
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| OK | Best | Rating Average |
Response Count |
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| Morning | 66.7% (10) | 33.3% (5) | 1.33 | 15 |
| Afternoon | 47.8% (11) | 52.2% (12) | 1.52 | 23 |
| Evening | 41.9% (13) | 58.1% (18) | 1.58 | 31 |
Evening works best.
| 2. What day works best for an event? (leave a row blank if not usually OK) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| answered question | 37 | |||
| skipped question |
0 |
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| OK | Best | Rating Average |
Response Count |
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| Any weekday | 100.0% (5) | 0.0% (0) | 1.00 | 5 |
| Any weekend day | 14.3% (3) | 85.7% (18) | 1.86 | 21 |
| Monday | 66.7% (2) | 33.3% (1) | 1.33 | 3 |
| Tuesday | 100.0% (2) | 0.0% (0) | 1.00 | 2 |
| Wednesday | 100.0% (3) | 0.0% (0) | 1.00 | 3 |
| Thursday | 100.0% (3) | 0.0% (0) | 1.00 | 3 |
| Friday | 60.0% (6) | 40.0% (4) | 1.40 | 10 |
| Saturday | 20.0% (4) | 80.0% (16) | 1.80 | 20 |
| Sunday | 37.5% (6) | 62.5% (10) | 1.63 | 16 |
Weekends are best, Saturday has a slight edge over Sunday.
| 3. How long should an event last? (in hours) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| answered question | 35 | ||
| skipped question |
2 |
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| Response Percent |
Response Count |
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| 1 | 5.7% | 2 | |
| 2 | 45.7% | 16 | |
| 3 | 37.1% | 13 | |
| 4 | 11.4% | 4 | |
| > 4 | 0.0% | 0 | |
2-3 hours is preferred length.
| 1. Would you go for? | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| answered question | 30 | |||
| skipped question |
7 |
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| Would go for | Can help organise | Can suggest venue | Response Count |
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| Sports | 100.0% (16) | 0.0% (0) | 0.0% (0) | 16 |
| Soccer | 100.0% (3) | 0.0% (0) | 0.0% (0) | 3 |
| Golf | 100.0% (5) | 0.0% (0) | 0.0% (0) | 5 |
| Tennis | 100.0% (5) | 0.0% (0) | 0.0% (0) | 5 |
| Puzzle-hunt | 100.0% (10) | 0.0% (0) | 0.0% (0) | 10 |
| Hiking | 100.0% (22) | 4.5% (1) | 9.1% (2) | 22 |
| Horse-riding | 100.0% (9) | 0.0% (0) | 0.0% (0) | 9 |
| Go-kart racing | 100.0% (11) | 0.0% (0) | 0.0% (0) | 11 |
| Laser tag | 100.0% (9) | 0.0% (0) | 0.0% (0) | 9 |
| Photography tour | 100.0% (8) | 12.5% (1) | 12.5% (1) | 8 |
| Wine-tasting | 94.1% (16) | 5.9% (1) | 11.8% (2) | 17 |
| Show repliesOther event (please specify, include venue or location if possible) | 11 | |||
Surprisingly large number wanted hiking and wine-tasting as events.
Here are the 11 replies for "other":
| 1. | Cruise of San Francisco Bay; Ocean Cod Fishing; White Water Rafting; Black Friday Mad Rush Shopping Trip; iFly trip (indoor skydiving); |
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| 2. | Fishing | ||
| 3. | Sports = going to a ball game bbq (not pot luck) snowboarding |
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| 4. | cooking class, food tour, art tour, art class, bowling, car rally, broadway musical, picnic, fishing | ||
| 5. | 1. dinner 2. events like arts/wine festivals, wicked show, recitals, g. khan exhibition at tech museum, stern grove. |
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| 6. | makan | ||
| 7. | Educate public school kids with talks/presentations about your careers or Spore or SE Asia | ||
| 8. | Unique business-specific events, e.g. biz updates from Singapore, SEA, briefing on activities of Singapore-based entities like GIC/Temasek, or startups in Singapore. | ||
| 9. | Potluck | ||
| 10. | Get together like National Day, I like those. |
| 2. What location works well for you? (leave blank if it doesn't work well) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| answered question | 33 | |||
| skipped question |
4 |
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| OK | Best | Rating Average |
Response Count |
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| San Francisco down to South San Francisco | 57.9% (11) | 42.1% (8) | 1.42 | 19 |
| Middle of Peninsula (Redwood City to Menlo Park) | 50.0% (12) | 50.0% (12) | 1.50 | 24 |
| South Bay (Palo Alto to San Jose) | 42.3% (11) | 57.7% (15) | 1.58 | 26 |
| East Bay | 77.8% (7) | 22.2% (2) | 1.22 | 9 |
| Berkeley/Oakland area | 100.0% (8) | 0.0% (0) | 1.00 | 8 |
Every time we get together, to help figure an event location, there's one reason Sofitel and Redwood City tend to win, because we have most people either in the middle or the South Bay.
We'll try and shoot for holding future events using the event list as a guide for priority, keeping to 2-3 hours, and Saturdays or Sundays.
By the way, we thought the worst time for an event was Monday, but apparently the results show Tuesday is the worst.