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Other information. There is other information available in this and
past surveys. Much was collected according to the hope that a consistent
data base would be built over the years so that future members might be
able to study historical trends, even if there were not time or effort
available to analyze or report on all of it at present. The opportunity
to study the incidence of the various attributed and their interrela-
tionship is certainly great.  For example, an entire report could be
constructed on the women of the survey; another on the young people; still
other on young men or women.  Correlations of sex, age and occupation
with factors like sobriety, drug addiction, origin in a rehab, etc., could
occupy analysts for some time, and might help us to understand what is
happening in our Fellowship.

Limitations.  There are limitations to the data of the surveys.  Perhaps
most tantalizing is that the rate at which members abandon active parti-
cipation in A.A. can be estimated, but there isn't a clue as to the
causes.  In surveys of this kind in the outside world, provision is often
made for follow-up to determine such vital information, but that has not
seemed possible for us.

There are limitations in the survey coverage.  The population surveyed is
the 48,000 groups registered at G.S.O. (roughly 980,000 members.) The
many groups that are not registered at G.S.O. are not included.  It is
conceivable that the members attending such groups have different
characteristics.  It is also possible that some members in groups that
were surveyed failed to or refused to complete the questionnaires, and
that such members have different characteristics.

In other respects the way in which questionnaires are administered to
groups has undoubtedly not been uniform, even though a good random
selection of groups is made to start with.

Nevertheless, the consistency of results from survey to survey (Appendix
B) suggests that each presents a good overall picture of our Fellowship.

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