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### Current Efforts

The survey sub-team is focused on monitoring diversity and exploring obstacles, motivations, and involvement of useRs in the community. Diversity will be monitored via basic demographic summaries from specifically designed surveys or other community surveys (e.g. useR! feedback survey).
The survey sub-team is focused on monitoring diversity and exploring obstacles, motivations, and involvement of useRs in the community.
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Diversity will be monitored via basic demographic summaries from specifically designed surveys or other community surveys (e.g. useR!
feedback survey).

### Former Efforts

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## Packages

### Maintainer Gender 2017
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In [Pinto, Wiese & Dias (2018). How Do Scientists Develop Scientific Software? An External Replication](http://gustavopinto.org/lost+found/saner-rene2018.pdf), the authors surveyed CRAN maintainers that self-identified as a
scientist. The survey was conducted starting in late November 2017 and ending in early January 2018. The respondents were contacted
by email and asked to complete an online questionnaire, with a response rate of 24% (a total of 1,553 responses).

<div class="commentbox"> In 2017, 10.9% of package maintainers who identified as scientists were women. </div>
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- 44.6% of respondents identify between 30 and 40 years of age at the time of the survey.

- Overwhelmingly, 80.0% of respondents identified as either having completed or are in progress of completing a doctorate degree.
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- Almost half (48.9%) of the respondents identify as being located in Europe and another 34.1% as being located in North America.
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<img src="../images/pinto_et_al_2018_gender_plot.png"
alt="In 2017, of the package author surveyed, 10.9% of respondents self-identify as female, about 88.2% identify as male, 0.1% of respondents self-identify as non-binary."
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<img src="../images/pinto_et_al_2018_age_cats_plot.png"
alt="44.6% of respondents identify between 30 and 40 years of age at the
time of the survey. 23.1% identify being younger than 30 and 31.7% as being
older than 40 years of age. The remainder did not provide an answer. "
width = "425"/>
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<img src="../images/pinto_et_al_2018_educ_plot.png"
alt="80.0% of respondents identify as either having completed or are in
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progress of completing a doctorate degree. 15.7% as either having completed
or are in progress of completing a master’s degree and 3.8% as either having
completed or are in progress of completing a bachelor’s degree. The remainder
did not provide an answer."
width = "425"/>
<img src="../images/pinto_et_al_2018_loc_plot.png"
alt="Almost half (48.9%) of the respondents self-identify their location in
Europe and another 34.1% self-identify their location in North America. The
remaining package authors who responded to the survey are distributed across
the globe, including Asia (5.8%), South America (5.6%), Oceania (4.1%),
Africa (0.5%), and Central America (0.3%). The remainder did not provide
an answer. "
width = "425"/>
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### Maintainer Gender 2016
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CRAN maintainers as of March 2016 were processed with the **genderizer**
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