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Dear colleagues,

My co-authors and I are looking to collect data with employed individuals across a range of 25 to 30 countries, on a platform like MTurk. We came across Crowdflower, who boasts 5 million workers across 154 countries.

We would be grateful if anyone could share their experience with Crowdflower. Was it reliable? Were respondents employed individuals? To what extent were they representative of the countries' populations?

Suggestions about other platforms for international data collection would be great! If there is interest in the question I will compile a summary of responses and share it on the listserv.

Thank you very much,

Ariane

Ariane Ollier-Malaterre, PhD

School of Management

University of Quebec in Montréal (UQAM)

ollier.ariane@uqam.ca

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ariane_Ollier-Malaterre

Recipient of the 2014 R.M. Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research

Ariane,

For a detailed discussion of various platforms (e.g., guru, elance, odesk, microworkers) as well as capabilities in terms of not only conducting surveys but also experimental studies, see the following article (available at http://mypage.iu.edu/~haguinis/pubs.html):

·       Aguinis, H., & Lawal, S. O. 2012. Conducting field experiments using eLancing's natural environment. Journal of Business Venturing, 27: 493-505.

I hope this helps and best of luck with your study.

All the best,

--Herman.

Dear colleagues,

My co-authors and I are looking to collect data with employed individuals across a range of 25 to 30 countries, on a platform like MTurk. We came across Crowdflower, who boasts 5 million workers across 154 countries.

We would be grateful if anyone could share their experience with Crowdflower. Was it reliable? Were respondents employed individuals? To what extent were they representative of the countries' populations?

Suggestions about other platforms for international data collection would be great! If there is interest in the question I will compile a summary of responses and share it on the listserv.

Thank you very much,

Ariane

Ariane Ollier-Malaterre, PhD

School of Management

University of Quebec in Montréal (UQAM)

ollier.ariane@uqam.ca

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ariane_Ollier-Malaterre

Recipient of the 2014 R.M. Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research

Dear Ariane,

Just read your email and hope it's not too late...

I strongly recommend that you do not use crowdflower. They are having major problems with fraudulent respondents. In my specific case, someone got the payment code, generated new IP's, and skipped to the end of my survey about 60 times. Thus no useable data and drained funds. I then informed crowdflower about this problem and they were completely horrible in their response. I'm still trying to get refunded and it's been about 2 months.

The short story is completely avoid crowdflower!  

Haven't heard of the same problems with Mturk.

All the best, Brian