Re: 2nd demographic survey

Joe Andrieu (andrieu@presence.COM)
Thu, 15 Dec 1994 15:53:42 -0800

At 1:40 PM 12/15/94, Arnold Kling wrote:
>Anyone gotten the results of the James Pitkow's 2nd demographic survey of
>Web users? http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/user_surveys/survey-09-1994/
>I tried to get it, but it died after 1% (it's a long postscript file).
>Curious as to the highlights. . .

I was able to get a copy. It's actually reasonably interesting.

Some 18,000 respondents, and a sizable amount of data. I still have severe
doubts as to the reality represented by the sample set, wrt self-selection,
but taken with that chunk of salt there are a few interesting tidbits:

61% of the respondents operate a WWW server.
54% of those servers are on 1 MB/sec connection. (T1 probably)
58% of the servers are NCSA HTTPD.

And the largest group of respondents were 'technical specialists' _not_
students. This should bring cheers from some folks. Additionally, the
distribution of ages among the respondents did fit a normal distribution.

Check it out. It's worth what it's worth. Sample bias is a problem, but
it is real information from 18,000 people on the Internet.

-j

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