Compiling our Data

Almost a year ago, we conducted a survey of the Ramavaram community in order to understand information about the population there and assess their current status and needs. We also thought it would be useful in order to see how far we had progressed in the community. The survey itself was written by Apta and myself and it was conducted by a large team of volunteers. We were able to reach most of the houses in the Ramavaram community that day and on subsequent trips. In order to target the houses most accurately, we divided the community into blocks and gave each of the houses a number. Alex made a great map of the community, which we still use to this day.

Alex's Map (.jpg)
Recently, some of our board members have been talking to Dr. Sathyasekaran, the Head of the Department of Community Medicine in our college. He has suggested that we formally compile the data we have collected thus far to analyze it and to figure out what additional information we need.

The first step is entering all of the data we have collected into the computer. This is being done by Apoorvaa and Lalitha. After this, we plan on importing it into a statistical software in order to be better able to analyze the information. Hopefully this can be done early this week and we can have some of the results of that survey for us to use.