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Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes

Overview

Understanding your local environment is the first step to identifying needs, improving facilities, and

fostering a greater sense of community. Students who take an active interest in the area around their

school can make it safer, cleaner, and a more attractive place for people to be. After collecting data about

your local area, you can analyze it with other available information to form an assessment of the

suitability of the facilities and design suggestions for improvement.

As part of a class group representing the youth in your area, you’re interested in learning what facilities

are available to you around your school. Are there parks, play areas, sport facilities, and indoor

entertainment venues? Can these facilities be used during the day and after dark? Do people feel safe in

these areas? Are they actually used? Do the facilities in the area suit the people who live there? Can these

facilities be accessed by walking from school?

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Design a survey on the web.

• Share a survey with others.

• Collect data in a web form.

• Observe data records being submitted.

• Compare the results of the survey against each other.

• Analyze the results of the survey.

To complete this lesson, you’ll need a Creator level account in an ArcGIS organization. Go to

https://survey123.arcgis.com/#/ and sign in. If you don’t have an account, click Try It Now and sign up

for an organizational account, and then sign in.

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Construct your survey

First, you’ll construct the survey for you and your classmates to fill in. You can create a single survey as a

group or create one each and then choose one single survey for everyone to use in the field. Either way, all

the data should be collected from a single survey.

1. Go to https://survey123.arcgis.com/#/ and sign in with your ArcGIS organizational account.

2. Click Create a New Survey.

3. Under Using the web designer, click Get Started.

4. Enter a name for your survey, tags that will identify your survey, and a summary of what the

survey is about.

5. Click Create.

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The files required for your survey will now be generated and saved in ArcGIS Online. Once it’s

created, you can add questions to your survey, such as the following:

a) Where is the facility?

b) What type of facility is it?

c) Describe the condition of the facility.

d) Is it accessible after dark?

e) If yes to previous, is there adequate lighting?

f) How many people could it accommodate?

g) How many people are currently using the facility?

h) What is the current time?

You can create questions on your survey by dragging the question type from the list (on the

right) to the survey page (on the left). The first question will be a GeoPoint, which lets you

add the location of the surveyed item.

6. In the Add pane, click GeoPoint.

The question is added to the survey, and the Edit pane opens.

7. For Label, type Where is the facility?

Your survey now has one question.

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8. Add four Single Choice questions:

a. For question 2, change the label to What type of facility is it? and add

three choices: playground, open parkland, and indoor entertainment.

b. For question 3, change the label to Describe the condition of the

facility and add three choices: well maintained, ok, and not

maintained.

c. For question 4, change the label to Is it accessible after dark? and add two

choices of yes and no. Be sure to delete the unused third choice from the list.

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d. For question 5, change the label to Is there adequate lighting? and add two

choices of yes and no.

The question Is there adequate lighting? is dependent on the previous question, Is it

accessible after dark? Because it is dependent, it should only be displayed if the respondent

answered yes to the previous question. To create this behavior, you’ll set a rule.

9. Click question 4 to select it and click Set Rule.

10. In the Set Rule pop-up, for If, choose yes, and for Show, choose 5. Is there adequate lighting?

Click OK.

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These questions are now marked with arrows that show they are linked.

11. In the Add pane, click Number and change the Label text to How many people can it

accommodate?

12. In the Hint box, type or paste Enter an estimate to the nearest 10. For

Validation, check the Must be an integer box.

13. For question 7, add another number question with the label How many people are

currently using the facility? Check the Must be an integer box.

14. For question 8, in the Add pane, click Time. Change the label to What is the current

time? For Default Value, choose Submitting time.

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15. Click Save.

You can optionally click Preview to see what your survey will look like to users completing

the survey.

16. Click Publish. In the Publish Survey pane, click Publish to confirm.

The publishing process may take a minute. Once it is completed, your survey is ready to share with others.

Share your survey

Discuss with your class group which survey will be used by everyone and share that one survey. All people

filling in the survey should use the one survey so that results are stored in the same file in ArcGIS Online.

After choosing which survey will be shared, the owner of that survey should follow these steps:

1. Go to https://survey123.arcgis.com/ and sign in with your ArcGIS account.

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Once your survey is published, it’s available for you to complete, or to share with others.

2. On the survey ribbon, click the Collaborate tab.

3. For Choose who can submit data to this survey, click Members of my organization.

This setting allows anyone in your organization with the survey link to complete your survey.

Alternatively, you might choose to share your survey with everyone. Note that when your

survey is public, each survey submission is anonymous. If you want to know who has completed

your survey (and perhaps, how many times), it is recommended to share your survey with

members of your organization or an ArcGIS Online group. When you share in this way, ArcGIS

Online user information will be included in each survey response.

4. Click Save.

You can now distribute the link for your survey to your class. You can do one of the following:

a. Send the link via email.

b. Display or print the QR code.

5. Click Open the survey in a new tab.

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This is the survey that you and your classmates will fill in as it looks on the web.

Surveys created in the Survey123 website can be filled in either on the web or in the Survey123 field

app. This lesson assumes that you will be filling in your survey on the web.

If your class regularly uses Survey123, or if you need to be able to fill in your survey while offline, you

may choose to use the Survey123 field app. To download the Survey123 field app on iOS or Android,

search for Survey123 in the app store. To download the Survey123 field app for your desktop, go to

https://doc.arcgis.com/en/survey123/download/.

Complete your survey

It’s now time to go outside! Individually or in groups, take the survey outside and fill it in.

Decide on the number of records your class would like to have to start analyzing data. You might agree

that everyone will attempt to collect five locations around school over the next two days. Alternatively,

you can all go out at once for a half an hour, spread in all directions from the school, and collect

whatever information can be gathered in that fixed time period. Overlapping data collection of facility

information at different times is a great way to analyze usage patterns. For example, one person may

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visit a playground before school and see there are no people there, and another may visit the same

playground after school and see it full.

To complete the survey, all class members need the same survey on their device. Follow the email link or

scan the QR code from the previous step to open the survey on your device.

A time estimate has not been included for this section of the lesson. This section can be as short or long as

the group chooses. More time will lead to more data collected and more to analyze.

Review the survey submissions and analyze your survey results against

other data

1. Return to the My Surveys page and open your survey. Click the Overview tab.

How many records are listed—1, 2, 20, 50?

Scroll to the bottom of the Overview page. How many records has each class member

completed? Who collected the most?

2. Click the Analyze tab.

Study the graph of what type of facilities were observed. Which is the most common? Change

the representation of the question to a Map—see that the different answers are shown in a

different color.

Scroll to the other questions. Are there any interesting responses? What proportion of the

facilities that are accessible after dark have adequate lighting?

Does time appear to influence the number of users of a facility?

3. On the Data tab, click Open in Map Viewer.

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A Map Viewer window opens in your survey. Map Viewer is an online tool that allows you to

view your survey results overlaid with other data. You can perform geographical analysis and

create maps to share with others.

4. On the ribbon, click Analysis and expand Use Proximity. Click Create Drive-Time Areas.

5. For Measure, click Driving Time and choose Walking Time. For the time increment, type 15

minutes.

6. For Areas from different points, choose Dissolve.

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7. Leave defaults for all other sections of this tool and click Run Analysis.

8. Study the walk-time results.

Do the walk-time areas overlap each other? Do they overlap your school?

9. On the ribbon, click Analysis and expand Data Enrichment. Click Enrich Layer.

10. Click Select Variables.

The Data Browser window opens. This variable contains demographic data that can be added to

your layer.

11. In the Data Browser window, click Population. In the Popular Variable list, choose 2018 Total

Population (Esri) and click Apply.

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The new layer is added to your map. Select a point and see the attribute data that has been added

to the point.

In the above images, you can see that out of a total daytime population of 9,642, 1,580 (or 16% of

the population) are under the age of 15.

12. On the ribbon, click Add and choose Search for layers.

13. Click My Content and choose ArcGIS Online.

From the Add pane, you can choose more data to add to the map. Look for layers such as these:

a. Schools (yours and others nearby)

b. Alternative venues were youth may congregate, for example, McDonalds or Starbucks

c. Major freeways or construction areas

d. New construction developments

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Add these layers to your map and see if they are close to the facilities. Will they impact the

usability of the facility? Do you need to cross a dangerous road to get to the facility from

school? Is a new house development going to add more demand to an already undersized

playground? If there are five junior schools in the area and only three playgrounds, is that a

sufficient number of facilities for the local community?

Summary

In this lesson, you have created a survey to collect information about exisiting facilities for youths in your

school area. By calculating the walking time areas to these facilities and comparing them to other layers of

information, you can identify the suitablity of the facilities and opportunities for improvement.

Creating surveys is a great way to collect data for anaylsis—either from the collection information only, or

by comparing it to other existing data.