How to Measure

How to measure

In this section you’ll find out how to measure what matters to you and your organisation.

After using the storyboard and impact map you’ll have identified a few key things that are important to measure. Here you can:

•	Develop or choose indicators to show that change will happen, or has happened already.
•	Learn how to structure your investigation and how to ask good questions.
•	Choose the best way to collect information. You can choose the ‘research method’ or methods that best suit the type of information you need, budget, timetable, and skills.
•	Then get some tips on how to analyse or digest the information you’ve collected.
•	The bank of common indictors shows how progress against aims/objectives that many organisations hold in common can be measured. This area is divided into social, environmental, and economic indicators.

“Indicator: A thing that serves to give an indication: [a sign, symptom or hint] or suggestion of something else” - Oxford English Dictionary

“Indicators tell us that something is happening!”

	Introduction

	What to measure
	How to measure
	Develop good indicators
	Gather information
	Compare research methods
	Analyse the information
	Sample indicators bank
	Social indicators: individuals
	Social indicators: communities
	Environmental indicators
	Economic indicators