Hi Elena, It would be interesting to do a survey of the bobbin-lacemaking members of IOLI about area of education, highest degree obtained and when, career field, types of bobbin lace specialized in, maybe things like primarily self-taught or not, others?, and compare the stats from that to stats from the Dept of Labor and other US government agencies for a comparable population (age distribution, income perhaps, etc.) I realize this would be US-centric, but I'm not sure if OIDFA membership would be as representative a sample. Statistical analysis would be relatively straightforward once one figured out to discretize and categorize the data--the devil is in the details of the latter task! If you do it, my unsolicited advice is to frame lots of hypotheses first and work really hard on getting the survey questionnaire right relative to those hypotheses. I hope you pursue it!!
Nancy Connecticut, USA On Sat, May 19, 2018, 22:20 Elena wrote ...considered researching it further for a possible article topic... - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
