Spearman Rank-Order Correlation Heatmap of Prison Officer Career Guidance Needs Survey Responses
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A Prison Officer Career Guidance Needs Survey was undertaken as part of the CCj4C Corrections Careers Erasmus+ KA3 Forward Looking Policy Project, funded by the European Union. The partnership consists of ministries of justice, prisons and adult education organisations from 6 European Member States and Turkey. As a precursor to this survey, the partership undertook an extensive literature and grey literature search, on prison and correctional officer/ public servant career guidance on a local, national and international level. The survey was developed collaboratively in the partnership based on this research. The aim of this survey was to hear directly from the service user (the prison officer) about their experience of career guidance and how the career development they receive impacts upon modern prison culture and more effective rehabilitation. The survey was delivered online via Google Forms and translated by native speakers. The survey was distributed in 5 countries: TR, IT, DE, RO and PT. There were 749 responses in total.
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From the responses given to the ‘Prison Officer Career Guidance Needs Survey’ the data from all responders was pooled and the strength of covariance between responses investigating by computing Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient (ρ) for each combination of responses. A value of 1 would indicate all responders provided the same answer to both questions, with -1 representing opposite responses to each question. A positive correlation indices that increasing positive responses to a particular question were often matched by positive responses to the second question. A negative correlation represents a trend in responses to indicate that when responders answered highly to one question, they often answered negatively to another. Where ‘No correlation’ is indicated, there was no indications of responses to one question correlating with responses to the other.