GVU's Sixth WWW User Survey General Graphs

Falsification Of Information

Notes:

This question was rephrased since the last survey, so the results are not directly comparable.

For this survey, 63.1% of respondents said they had never provided false information to a site when registering. 3.4% preferred not to say, which leaves 33.5% who have provided false information. Of those who have provided false information, most (66.5%) do so infrequently (less than 25% of the time). Only 33.5% provide false information frequently (more than 25% of the time).

A smaller percentage of females than males report ever having falsified information. Also, the likelihood of having provided false information decreases with age.

Table of Data for All Categories

Falsification of Information	All	Male	Female	USA	Europe	19-25	26-50	50+
26-50	651.00 5.00%	509.00 5.58%	142.00 3.64%	535.00 4.94%	49.00 6.12%	178.00 7.58%	337.00 4.28%	27.00 1.78%
51-75	360.00 2.76%	293.00 3.21%	67.00 1.72%	295.00 2.72%	20.00 2.50%	102.00 4.34%	183.00 2.32%	15.00 0.99%
Never	8222.00 63.12%	5500.00 60.25%	2722.00 69.87%	6899.00 63.68%	467.00 58.38%	1156.00 49.21%	5269.00 66.88%	1232.00 81.11%
Not Say	439.00 3.37%	307.00 3.36%	132.00 3.39%	364.00 3.36%	28.00 3.50%	68.00 2.89%	224.00 2.84%	46.00 3.03%
Over 75	449.00 3.45%	374.00 4.10%	75.00 1.93%	355.00 3.28%	31.00 3.88%	107.00 4.56%	240.00 3.05%	34.00 2.24%
Under 25	2904.00 22.30%	2146.00 23.51%	758.00 19.46%	2386.00 22.02%	205.00 25.62%	738.00 31.42%	1625.00 20.63%	165.00 10.86%

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