In reply to Sandman:
> In response to some comments received in the actual survey so far, it is open to anyone to complete (regardless of ethic background) so apologies if that wasn't clear! Also, it's looking like I may have some people skipping questions which I thought I'd managed to ask SurveyMonkey to avoid; can anyone tell me if they've been able to skip questions?
Hi Sandy, forgive my curiosity but how will you deal with the question of any bias that may arise in your analysis through the self-selecting nature of your survey method?
It strikes me that those people who are interested enough to complete the survey might be unrepresentative of the population as a whole. It's perfectly possible that minority groups (e.g. recent immigrants or their descendants) might be more (or less) motivated to complete the survey and that such groups might therefore be over or under-represented in your sample. In other words you might not end up measuring the ethnic minority participation in climbing at all, but end up instead measuring ethnic minority participation in surveys like this, within the wider climbing population. How do you account for that possibility?