Ensuring Accuracy in results: 

Being an anonymous survey, the dataset can be subject to inaccurate and incomplete data. To counteract this, we carefully process the raw data into a useable subset that is the foundation for all reporting. 

The following process is applied to ensure data is as accurate as possible:

Step 1) For a response to be included the following minimum data must be supplied:

• State school is in
• Whether the schools is Public/Private/Catholic
• The number of Students
• The number of Staff
• The number of ICT Staff
• School Fees

Step 2) Data is validated and minor errors corrected (eg If asked annual budget, someone specifies 150k, this is corrected to 150,000)

Step 3) Data integrity is checked, with extremes or obviously incorrect data being omitted (eg If a school has indicated they have 1000 computers but only 120 students or perhaps a school reported they have 10 IT support staff, but some have no department structure or wage data and they have not listed any volunteers or students)

Step 4) As the survey does not require all fields to be completed, if there is not enough data for a particular metric, aggregated data is not calculated and there will be some form of indication in the report to the reader that this particular item may be inaccurate