The Glen Waverley Uniting Church PSALTER
Survey on worship services 2015
ChurchCouncil is always considering the number, style and timing of worship services. It was suggested at the congregational meeting in March that Council again canvas the congregation on the question of reducing the number of services. In response to this request, concil composed a survey. The survey focuses on examining the diversity of members' worship style preferences, to see if combining of services is possible. Questions concerning which services to combine and at what times, are not yet being considered.
The survey can be completed in paper form available at church or here, or on the web using this link. Completion before the Council meeting on 28th April will be helpful.
The following graphs show the results of the numerical questions from the first 49 surveys returned by April 16. These will be updated as more surveys are received. The anlaysis of the "free form" questions will take longer.
The first plot shows the average and standard deviation of the various questions."A sense of the holy" is the top performer. There may be different interpretations of what this means, and the spread of values is large, but it is clearly important to many people. |
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Its histogram shows this. The heights of the bars show the number of surveys that gave each score for this question. |
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It is also apparent from the averages plot that the time questions have large spreads. The plot to measure diversity is opposite. Each question has a position on the graph, vertically the number of +3 (essential) answers, and horizontally the number of -3 (won't come) answers. The two questions with 9 "essential"s are Organ and Choir. |
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This is confirmed by looking at the histogram for that question |
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More analysis will be coming, including different ways of counting the positive and negative scores.
Analysis by DavidMorgan