BTS ARMY CENSUS

A census is a survey of a specific population.

The survey is completely anonymous and does not ask for any personal or identifying information.

While there are no age restrictions, we do ask that individuals under 18 obtain verbal permission from a parent/guardian as part of protocol.

We will update the data on this website to be utilized as a resource. Our team members themselves do not have plans to submit the data for publications. Data will simply be displayed for the public consumption.

Of course! We hope that this type of data will serve as a helpful source of information for those who are writing and talking about BTS and ARMY. We simply ask that you let us know when you reference ARMY Census in your work :)

*We have no control over who cites our data and what they use it for, but we urge those who do to cite it accurately and use our analysis.*

We understand that a project of this scale poses a few challenges and limitations. It is important that we provide the public with the most accurate data, while also remaining transparent in addressing these issues. Ultimately, this project has the potential to also serve as a guideline and recommendation on how to capture future global demographics.

• Consistency across countries: We understand that one of the biggest challenges of doing a global demographic survey is maintaining consistency of responses across countries. Questions related to educational status are especially difficult, and this is perhaps why they are rarely done on a worldwide scale. In these cases, there is no "perfect" set of answer options that will cover every single person from each country, nor are there even best recommendations from global entities on how to appropriately set this up. Simply put, there are varying levels of education. In the end, we will be reporting the most significant results in the most appropriate and accurate way.
• Realistic expectations: We know that it is an incredibly ambitious goal to capture a response from every single ARMY that exists in the world. However, we are confident that with the support of the fandom, we will be able to collect demographics data from at least a significant number of individuals through this ongoing effort and continue to tell a story about them. 
• Duplicated responses: Although we are relying on the honor system, we have set up our Google Forms to require a Gmail sign-in to limit each ARMY to one response per survey, per account. At the top of each copy of the Census you'll be able to see it says, "[your email] not shared." This means we, as researchers, have no way of viewing participant emails or any other Google Account information. Thus, even though sign-in is required to prevent duplicate responses, all responses on the ARMY Census are fully anonymous. If you have any further questions or concerns, please DM @ARMYCensus on Twitter.
• Contamination of data: Making a survey like this openly available does invite the potential for contamination of data by those who may not be BTS fans. Our team plans to screen responses regularly in order to flag submissions that seem unusual.

The best thing you can do to help is share the ARMY CENSUS project with as many people as you can. It is important that we reach as many ARMYs all over the world through different social media platforms and even by word of mouth. We know that this fandom has the special power to make this happen This is a special project that counts on all of us working together to spread the word <3

When the ARMY CENSUS is complete and results are out, we also need ARMY's help in disseminating the information and spreading the word.