We are delighted to announce that we have launched our new online, interactive database .
Although the database is accessible online, it can also be downloaded in Excel spread sheet format.
The database allows its users to:
- Search for individual writers and find out more about their demographic characteristics, such as age/year of birth, gender, occupational category, marital status.
- Search for writers with specific demographic characteristics, such as gender, or year of birth.
- Identify writers’ writing behaviours – showing the directives to which individual writers have responded.
- Search for directives and themes.
We have written some FAQs intended to help new users. There are also some simple tools (with instructions) to compare the Mass Observation writers with the broader UK population.
We hope that the database is easy to use. But if you identify any problems, please use the contact information at the top of the database website.
Over the next few weeks we are going to be publishing some ‘How to use the database’ videos/vlogs on the Mass Observation Archive’s YouTube channel.
We are also going to publish some videos/vlogs on some of the findings from the analyses that we have been working on. Please watch this space for updates.
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