I want to measure societal impacts of my initiative…
...by assessing its impact on citizen-led research

Aggregate indicator title	Citizen-led research
Description	Alignment of project goals to the community demands and efficacy of engagement techniques
Domain	Society
Qualitative/Quantitative	Quantitative & qualitative
Primary/Secondary data	Primary data
Source of data	Participants
Time series	Yes, evaluation at four stages of a project - early stages, mid-project, end of the project, and post-project
Unit of measurement (observation)	Absolute values & nominal
Unit of analysis	Project
Analytical level (logic model)	Context
Links with indicators in other domains	N/A
Data collection method(s)	(online) self-evaluation questionnaires to be completed at four stages of a project - early evaluation, mid evaluation, end evaluation and post-project evaluation - designed to the profile of the respondents (i.e. civil society members, researchers, students, project managers)
Data collection item(s)	Not indicated, but can be derived from the 'indicator building' field
Indicator building	Community alignment Responsiveness to community alignment
Availability of data	Low
Feasibility	Moderately resource demanding
Comments/caveats	The items listed for the indicator building can be used to derive data collection items in simplistic ways. However, sound implementation would need to draw on scientific research in a number of relevant disciplines.
Source of indicator definition	Gresle et al. (2019)

I want to measure societal impacts of my initiative…...by assessing its impact on citizen-led research