Topics of Documents Authored

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Notes:

• For this question, users were allowed to mark more than one answer.

• As with the fourth survey, the most popular topics of pages authored are personal home pages (78.6%) and work-related pages (75.2%). Similarly the least popular topics remain conferences (13.1%) and sports (10.2%).

• The percentages for all categories are up slightly from the fourth survey, except for meta-indices ("pointers") and research topics.

• An equal or higher percentage of European respondents report author pages across all categories.

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Table of Data for All Categories

topics	All	USA	Europe
ads	793 24.64%	440 25.60%	89 27.05%
art	546 16.97%	311 18.09%	62 18.84%
bio	2528 78.56%	1386 80.63%	262 79.64%
conferences	422 13.11%	218 12.68%	51 15.50%
enmt	1310 40.71%	731 42.52%	146 44.38%
news	661 20.54%	343 19.95%	72 21.88%
other	1095 34.03%	574 33.39%	128 38.91%
pointers	500 15.54%	286 16.64%	79 24.01%
product	801 24.89%	438 25.48%	91 27.66%
resrch	1139 35.39%	630 36.65%	129 39.21%
sport	327 10.16%	172 10.01%	30 9.12%
work	2421 75.23%	1346 78.30%	270 82.07%

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