GVU's Fifth WWW User Survey General Graphs

Age

Notes:

The average age of all the Web users that responded to the Fifth Survey is 33.0 years old, a slight increase from the Fourth Survey, which had an average age of 32.7 years old.

One of the re-occurring differences between European and US users is age profiles, with the European users (average age 28.8) being younger than their US counterparts (average age 33.9). These averages are almost the same as observed in the Fourth Survey (European 29.7; US 33.2).

Notes:

As with the Fourth Survey, there are few major differences between the age profiles for man and women. The average age for women is 31.9 years old, which is slightly younger than the men, which have an average age of 33.4 years old. These numbers are almost identical to the Fourth survey where the average ages were 31.8 yrs old for women and 33.1 yrs old for men.

A trend observed in the Fourth Survey that continues in the Fifth Survey is for the women to have a stronger presence within the 11-20 year old range, with 12.9% of the women belonging to the 16-20 yr old category compared to 10.1% of the men. The stronger presence of younger women is supported by the occupational data which also shows a strong presence of women college students.

Table of Data for All Categories

age All Male Female USA Europe 19-25 26-50 50+

Mean 32.95 33.39 31.94 33.89 28.83 22.26 36.07 56.74

For more information or to submit comments:
send e-mail to www-survey@cc.gatech.edu.
GVU's WWW Surveying Team
Graphics, Visualization, & Usability Center
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0280