GVU's Fifth WWW User Survey General Graphs

Number of Dependents

Notes:

The majority of the users surveyed report having no dependents (61.7%). European users (74.0%) are more likely to have no dependents than US users (61.0%). This trend was also observed in the Fourth Survey.

Another trend extending back to the Third Survey, is that more users report having two dependents (16.4%) than one dependent (14.1%). total of 7.9% of the users have three or more dependents.

Notes:

Females reported having slightly more dependents than their male counterparts, though this difference is not statistically significant.

Notes:

As one would expect, the youngest and the eldest age groups report having fewer dependents, with the 26-50 age group having the most. 74.6% of the 19-25 yr olds and 73.2% of the 50+ group report having no dependents, with 60.6% for the 26-50 yr olds.

Table of Data for All Categories

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

0 7237
61.66%
5033
62.56%
2204
59.71%
5248
60.96%
939
73.94%
2040
74.56%
4212
60.60%
713
73.20%

1 1649
14.05%
1069
13.29%
580
15.71%
1243
14.44%
135
10.63%
269
9.83%
1012
14.56%
150
15.40%

2 1925
16.40%
1300
16.16%
625
16.93%
1431
16.62%
143
11.26%
282
10.31%
1180
16.98%
85
8.73%

3 648
5.52%
451
5.61%
197
5.34%
477
5.54%
39
3.07%
86
3.14%
395
5.68%
19
1.95%

4 182
1.55%
122
1.52%
60
1.63%
136
1.58%
10
0.79%
38
1.39%
100
1.44%
3
0.31%

5 56
0.48%
40
0.50%
16
0.43%
46
0.53%
2
0.16%
12
0.44%
32
0.46%
1
0.10%

6 22
0.19%
17
0.21%
5
0.14%
16
0.19%
2
0.16%
5
0.18%
13
0.19%
0
0.00%

7 5
0.04%
3
0.04%
2
0.05%
5
0.06%
0
0.00%
1
0.04%
4
0.06%
0
0.00%

8 2
0.02%
2
0.02%
0
0.00%
2
0.02%
0
0.00%
1
0.04%
1
0.01%
0
0.00%

9+ 10
0.09%
8
0.10%
2
0.05%
5
0.06%
0
0.00%
2
0.07%
2
0.03%
3
0.31%

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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