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I want to measure societal impacts of my initiative…
...by assessing its impact on community building

Aggregate indicator title

Community building 

Description

Recruitment, on boarding citizens, experts, policy makers 

Domain

Society

Qualitative/Quantitative

Quantitative & qualitative

Primary/Secondary data

Primary and Secondary data

Source of data

Primary: Participants

Secondary: Publicly available data sources e.g. project deliverables and publications

Time series

Not specified 

Unit of measurement (observation)

Absolute values & nominal 

Unit of analysis

Project

Analytical level (logic model)

Outcome, impact

Links with indicators in other domains

N/A

Data collection method(s)

Citizen scientists’ self-reports via surveys/questionnaires, focus groups, journaling, public data sources 

Data collection item(s)
  • How has participating in GROW Observatory enhanced your community?
  • To what extent has GROW strengthen the communication and networks in your community?
Indicator building

Not specified

Availability of data

Low

Feasibility

Moderately resource demanding

Comments/caveats

The concepts used for the indicator building are too complex to derive data collection items

Source of indicator definition

Woods et al. (2019)