House Demographics Survey

We are seeking to collect anonymous and accurate demographic information on the Caltech Houses. This study is a first — there is no data available for house-specific demographics. We need YOUR participation to make it possible! We already have 185 responses, so we’re showing a quick sneak peak of the data: the pie chart shows how many people have responded per house so far, and the stacked bar chart shows the number of people who responded, who identify as queer.

This is for our Data, Algorithms, and Society (CS/VC 162) class project. If you are curious about the results, please see our contact information at the end of the article, or on the form. We may publish the results in the Tech as well. [should I add that the survey is not affiliated with the Tech newspaper? “This survey is not affiliated with the California Tech newspaper in any way, shape, or form and for our class project”.]

Only summarized data will be published and analyzed. Individual responses will not be made available anywhere. Only the people running the survey (Maxwell and Alicia) will be able to see the full responses (contact information at the end of the article, or on the form). We will make no effort to personally identify any respondents.

This poll is inspired by demographic polls run in other colleges, for example by Princeton’s student newspaper runs an extremely comprehensive Senior Survey: https://projects.dailyprincetonian.com/senior-survey-2023/.

Please fill out the form according to how you identify. It should take <5 minutes. Follow the Honor code and answer honestly and truthfully!

Link: https://forms.gle/fdFBcnYUxmbRUM2T8. Share the form with your friends!

If you have filled it out already please look at it again, we have added more questions about race.

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, feel free to contact: Alicia Zhang (alicia@caltech.edu), or Maxwell Montemayor (montemayor@caltech.edu). We look forward to your responses!