Dr. Amanda North

When the census data is published, it is weighted to represent all practicing urologists. And I, as a disclaimer, I am not a statistician, but we have people who are experts into statistical services who create the data that you see on the website, and it has been weighted to represent all practicing urologists.

So as a disclaimer, for those who want to just pull the census data off and publish based on that, doing their own statistics, it's actually not a good way to do it. It's better to get the data from the AUA, which you can do, because it has been weighted to try to represent our entire practicing urology community.

So as a disclaimer, for those who want to just pull the census data off and publish based on that, doing their own statistics, it's actually not a good way to do it. It's better to get the data from the AUA, which you can do, because it has been weighted to try to represent our entire practicing urology community.

So as a disclaimer, for those who want to just pull the census data off and publish based on that, doing their own statistics, it's actually not a good way to do it. It's better to get the data from the AUA, which you can do, because it has been weighted to try to represent our entire practicing urology community.

And so I think that's a really important disclaimer when we're talking about a 13.5% response rate.

And so I think that's a really important disclaimer when we're talking about a 13.5% response rate.

And so I think that's a really important disclaimer when we're talking about a 13.5% response rate.

Obviously, there's going to be a response bias. And it's hard to say who has the response bias. At least half of the responses to the census respond at the annual meeting every year. So every year at the annual meeting, we have stations set up with computers and AUA staff, and we strongly encourage people to come fill out the census by giving them little freebies. super cute t-shirts.

Obviously, there's going to be a response bias. And it's hard to say who has the response bias. At least half of the responses to the census respond at the annual meeting every year. So every year at the annual meeting, we have stations set up with computers and AUA staff, and we strongly encourage people to come fill out the census by giving them little freebies. super cute t-shirts.

Obviously, there's going to be a response bias. And it's hard to say who has the response bias. At least half of the responses to the census respond at the annual meeting every year. So every year at the annual meeting, we have stations set up with computers and AUA staff, and we strongly encourage people to come fill out the census by giving them little freebies. super cute t-shirts.

I have a pair of AUA census sunglasses that are to die for. I wear them every day. And so we bribe people to come fill out the census at the annual meeting. So we do skew slightly heavily towards whoever attended the annual meeting that year, which is also how we get a lot of our international respondents, by the way. And then, of course, there's word of mouth. So I'm sure that

I have a pair of AUA census sunglasses that are to die for. I wear them every day. And so we bribe people to come fill out the census at the annual meeting. So we do skew slightly heavily towards whoever attended the annual meeting that year, which is also how we get a lot of our international respondents, by the way. And then, of course, there's word of mouth. So I'm sure that

I have a pair of AUA census sunglasses that are to die for. I wear them every day. And so we bribe people to come fill out the census at the annual meeting. So we do skew slightly heavily towards whoever attended the annual meeting that year, which is also how we get a lot of our international respondents, by the way. And then, of course, there's word of mouth. So I'm sure that

People who are active on the platform formerly known as Twitter are getting constant reminders because we tend to tweet. I think we still call it tweeting. We tweet and retweet the link to the census. So there is a little bit of a bias towards that. Our partner organizations, for example, my friends and colleagues in SWOO, are very good at encouraging people to fill out the census.

People who are active on the platform formerly known as Twitter are getting constant reminders because we tend to tweet. I think we still call it tweeting. We tweet and retweet the link to the census. So there is a little bit of a bias towards that. Our partner organizations, for example, my friends and colleagues in SWOO, are very good at encouraging people to fill out the census.

People who are active on the platform formerly known as Twitter are getting constant reminders because we tend to tweet. I think we still call it tweeting. We tweet and retweet the link to the census. So there is a little bit of a bias towards that. Our partner organizations, for example, my friends and colleagues in SWOO, are very good at encouraging people to fill out the census.

So I wouldn't be surprised if we get a disproportionate amount of women because we really push the census through SWU, thanks to all my friends in SWU who have been helpful with that. So yes, there probably is a little bit of a bias.

So I wouldn't be surprised if we get a disproportionate amount of women because we really push the census through SWU, thanks to all my friends in SWU who have been helpful with that. So yes, there probably is a little bit of a bias.

So I wouldn't be surprised if we get a disproportionate amount of women because we really push the census through SWU, thanks to all my friends in SWU who have been helpful with that. So yes, there probably is a little bit of a bias.

We know that people who are truly disconnected from the AUA are going to be less likely to fill out the census, but it's still a pretty large number of respondents overall. So given that any survey is going to be somewhat biased, I think the census is the best we're going to do, at least for now. Has it been pretty consistent over the years?