Help With Profilling the Profession

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The data is there to use or not to use.

This survey seems to have become some kind of cyclical event that somebody has decided that field archaeologists need? But the demand is not coming from field archaeologists or rather field archaeologists dont seem to be funding it. It appears that EH are behind it although there are a myriad of logos on the sponsors and partners http://www.profilingtheprofession.co.uk/...tners.html
I have tried tracking down just how the funding is marshalled but have failed so far. Could anybody point out any sources.

Seems to me that if anybody wanted to profile the professional that somebody like bajr running virtualy the only worthwhile jobs bullitien in britain would be the most obvious cost effective body to profile the profession and I would imagine that everybody could then easily see that it would be politically biased (honourously so of course). I see bajr logo on the sponser page, I hope that they are not there as a charity. Sorry doug but I dont trust or except the premises -are there any, or results of these surveys because I dont understand why your sponser/s are funding it. Why do you want to know what we did last year so that you can compare it with something that happened the year before? because there might not be an equal number of girls and boys doing archaeology out of the 1 or 2 thousand people (out of a population of 70 million) who might get lucky enough to sit in a site hut this year.

These public servants appear to want to talk about salaries when our world is dominated by contracts, even in the units. A bit like bajr, ifa and everbody are trying to propegate the myth that we work permanant salaried jobs in council units and the state of the nation can be calibrated by the inadequacy of our pensions. I would like it to be said that definition of an archaeologist is that they work contracts and I dont mean employment rights. Bit like you do doug, bajr, .....

wasnt someone not so long ago on bajr trying to tell us that we had to watch some construction analysis data, forget who