Adding a People and Place Survey
- Ta Ethni Service Desk
- Shannon Berryman
A Survey in GAPP is a snapshot of a people group for the purpose of better understanding the people groups around your team to help your current Great Commission engagement or for doing research for future Great Commission engagement. By adding Surveys in GAPP, you are better able to increase your vision of God's work, inform your prayers about God’s work, improve your preparation for God’s work, and invite others to participate in God’s work.
Use the People and Place survey to mark places you find people groups around your team.
Because Templates are customizable by your Workspace owners, administrators, and creators, your version of this template may look slightly different. Questions may be phrased differently, be in a different order, or there may even be questions that do not appear in this article and video.
To record a “People and Place Survey” in GAPP:
Select the appropriate Team from the side menu and select Activities.
Now select the “Create Activity” button at the top of the screen.
From the drop-down list of Core Task categories, select “Entry” and in the pop-out menu, select “People and Place.”
In the “Contributors” section, select the “Add Member” symbol and the “Search” box to include anyone else from the team who was with you. Select the "Add Members" button.
In the “Location” section, select the “Default,” or “Current” button to use one of those pre-set locations.
If neither of those is the correct location where the people were found, select the Location selector to search for a different location. You can search for the location in the search box or move and zoom on the map to select the correct location. When you have the right location, select “Continue.”
In the “When” section, enter the date, date range, or time range over which the activity occurred.
In the “Type of Place” section, select the type of place the survey was done.
If the type of place is not in the default list, you can choose other and enter your own type
In the “Name of Place” section you can optionally enter a name for the place.
In the “People Groups Details” section, you can select the particular group or groups that were found.
For “Population Found” section select either the population range or the exact number of people from this people group that you found.
If you are chaining from another activity, you can select the "Copy from chained" button to automatically enter the people group, language, and religion information from the previous activity.
For “People Group” you can select one of your defaults or use the other option to select a different people group from the list. By default, this brings up the people groups that GAPP knows are near the location you selected, but if the people group you are looking for is still not in the list, you can select the search box and type the name of the people group you are looking for. And of course, if you don’t know the people group, you can leave it as “Unknown.”
For “Language” you can select one of your defaults or use the other option to select a different language from the list. By default, this brings up the languages that GAPP knows are near the location you selected, but if the language you are looking for is still not in the list, you can select the search box and type the name of the language you are looking for. And of course, if you don’t know the language, you can leave it as “Unknown.”
For “Religious Background” you can select one of your defaults or use the other option to select a different religion from the list. By default, this brings up the religions that GAPP knows are near the location you selected, but if the religion you are looking for is still not in the list, you can select the search box and type the name of the religion you are looking for. And of course, if you don’t know the religion, you can leave it as “Unknown.”
In the “Global Segments” section, you can optionally select any social segments that were found.
In the “Comments” box, add more details and select Submit.
You will then return to your Team Dashboard with an “Activity Created Successfully” notification at the bottom of the screen.
If you make a mistake, you can always select the edit button for the activity, make the necessary changes, and select save.
That’s it! You are preparing for another work of the Lord among all peoples and places. Praise God for the work He is doing!