Looking back on 5th international Repair Café webinar
Over three hundred volunteers from Repair Cafés around the world attended the fifth international Repair Café webinar on Friday 25 April. It was the most…
RepairMonitor factsheet provides insight into repair data for 2024
Repair Café volunteers entered more repair data than ever before in 2024. More than 37,000 repairs were recorded in the RepairMonitor, the online tool for data collection in Repair Cafés worldwide. Of these, 62 percent were successful. This can be seen in the latest factsheet with results from the RepairMonitor.
Vacuum cleaners, coffee makers, and trousers/pants were the most popular items brought to Repair Cafés in 2024. The factsheet also lists the most common problems for each of these three items. For example, vacuum cleaners often had damaged cords or plugs, switches were broken, or there were motor problems.
Public dashboard with eight visualisations
The current results of the RepairMonitor can be viewed at any time via a public dashboard with eight visualisations. This dashboard provides insight into the most frequently offered products and brands, participating Repair Cafés, reasons why repairs are unsuccessful etc. Visitors can filter the results by indicators such as country, year, Repair Café and product category. They can also download the entire dataset for further independent research.
RepairMonitor is being expanded and improved
Repair Café International is taking a close look at the RepairMonitor this year. The system is being rebuilt, expanded, and improved in numerous ways. This should make it attractive for even more Repair Cafés to enter repair data and provide more information about the repairs they carry out. This should lead to a larger and better dataset.
This dataset will benefit all kinds of parties: repairers will be able to repair better, policymakers will be able to make better rules to promote repair, manufacturers will have additional tools to increase the repairability of their products, and researchers will have better data to analyse. The updated RepairMonitor is expected to be available in autumn.
More information
- Download the factsheet with the results of the RepairMonitor in 2024
- View the RepairMonitor dashboard
- Read background information about the RepairMonitor dashboard
- Check out our previous articles about the RepairMonitor
- Register your Repair Café as a RepairMonitor participant
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