Gender

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Notes:

• Overall, 31.5% of the users are female and the other 68.5% are male. This represents a moderate increase in female users from the Fourth Survey, where 29.3% reported being female, and quite a significant jump from the Third Survey (April 1995), where 15.5% reported being female.

• The US segment continues to be integrating more female users into its user base than other countries, with 34.4% of the users being female in the US (65.6% male). Europe reports only 15.2% females. However, this is a 45% increase from the the Fourth Survey, where 10.5% of the European users were female.

• Compared to random sampling surveys, like O'Rielly, FIND/SVP, and Nielsen, the gender ratios for the Fifth survey are all with the reported margin of error, i.e., no statistical differences.

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• The younger age groups report more females than the older groups (32.1% 19-25 yrs old, 30.1% 26-50 yrs old, and 24.7% over 50 yrs old).

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Table of Data for All Categories

gender	All	Male	Female	USA	Europe	19-25	26-50	50+
female	3691 31.45%	0 0.00%	3691 100.00%	2957 34.35%	193 15.20%	879 32.13%	2124 30.56%	241 24.74%
male	8045 68.55%	8045 100.00%	0 0.00%	5652 65.65%	1077 84.80%	1857 67.87%	4827 69.44%	733 75.26%

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GVU's WWW Surveying Team
Graphics, Visualization, & Usability Center
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0280