GVU's Fifth WWW User Survey Usage Graphs

Frequency of Weather Information Use

Notes:

A quarter of respondents (25.6%) have never used the Web for weather information, another 28.2% have only accessed it a few times.

44.24% of Europeans have never accessed weather information, compared to only 20.0% percent of Americans.

Notes:

Females report accessing weather information less frequently than males.

Notes:

Older respondents are more likely to access weather information frequently than younger respondents.

Table of Data for All Categories

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

A few times 1869
28.24%
1169
28.31%
500
29.00%
1247
28.32%
178
30.17%
369
28.36%
1043
28.93%
133
26.44%

Don't know 83
1.25%
45
1.09%
27
1.57%
48
1.09%
12
2.03%
24
1.84%
34
0.94%
6
1.19%

Never 1692
25.56%
935
22.64%
531
30.80%
879
19.96%
261
44.24%
388
29.82%
834
23.13%
87
17.30%

Once per day 494
7.46%
345
8.35%
96
5.57%
380
8.63%
20
3.39%
76
5.84%
292
8.10%
59
11.73%

Once per month 417
6.30%
263
6.37%
100
5.80%
277
6.29%
35
5.93%
85
6.53%
224
6.21%
26
5.17%

Once per week 388
5.86%
275
6.66%
70
4.06%
279
6.34%
27
4.58%
90
6.92%
197
5.46%
35
6.96%

Several times per day 206
3.11%
143
3.46%
33
1.91%
165
3.75%
1
0.17%
41
3.15%
107
2.97%
20
3.98%

Several times per month 716
10.82%
455
11.02%
193
11.19%
538
12.22%
38
6.44%
114
8.76%
448
12.43%
52
10.34%

Several times per week 754
11.39%
500
12.11%
174
10.09%
590
13.40%
18
3.05%
114
8.76%
426
11.82%
85
16.90%

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