Supplementary Report, 19 Dec 2012
(to be read in conjunction with ACR published Dec 2012)
This report provides analysis and conclusions drawn from the survey entitled ‘Preferred Age and Length of Service of an Archbishop’. The ACR has been discussing the potential age and length of service for the Archbishop to be elected in 2013. In order to encourage continued discussion, the survey was commissioned to elicit opinions of synod members.
The survey utilised an online response service, Survey Monkey. An email was sent to the ACR’s list of synod reps with an explanation and web link. The recipients were asked to forward it to other synod reps to ensure a sizeable sample of the synod. Responses were collected over a five day period.
The survey was made up of 24 questions consisting of open, closed-ended, and demographic types of questions. Some of the questions required one answer whilst others required ranking and multiple answers. The survey instrument and full report can be downloaded from the ACR website. This is a supplementary report intended to help synod members analyse the data more easily through the use of helpful graphs.
A total of 463 responses were collected. In order to obtain the most helpful analysis, potential bogus responses were detected, although all data has been reported on. 112 suspected bogus responses were identified. Of the good data, 127 were reported to be synod reps. Not all respondents answered all questions.