SURVEY ANALYSIS METHODOLOGY
Analyse by clubs descriptive statistics
Understanding general youth academy ecosystem
Analyse by working processes – inferential statistics
The results of the survey were analysed from two perspectives, descriptive and inferential statistics
U sing descriptive statistics enabled us to identify which working processes were the most used/ unused within the ecosystem. We then selected averages of working processes within the Quality Areas, taking a margin of 90% (or 85%-90%), and identifying what the clubs found within those margins do and don’t use. This is a new learning point, as it detects what is a ‘must’ to do. This enables you to compare
where your academy is in comparison the to the wider youth academy ecosystem. It certainly helped us to look at the relationships between clubs summarised in each working process percentage. The use of inferential statistics helped us focus on the relationships and the inter- correlation between the working processes. Those working processes with more inter-correlations suggest they are more important than others, and if they do occur, others might occur too. Again, this is a learning point; you might find you can analyse the correlation of working processes and compare that with your own set-up, and the intensity of focus you place on each of them. For this analysis, we used what is called the 'Pearson correlation'. The criteria was a significant correlation (margin 0.05).
Those working processes that appear within that margin, and those which correlate with 10 or more other working processes were identified and presented further on. All detected working processes were then designated to a Quality Area. The learning point here is that this might enable you to analyse your own academy in the same way the QA is mapped. Detecting which Quality Areas are more and less populated by identified working processes can illustrate when it comes to demonstrating the priority of an academy. Ultimately, our intention here is to assist in building a constructive environment, which might lead to new developments in your academy, or communication between you and your colleagues across Europe.
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YOUTH FOOTBALL 2021-23
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