Falsified Online Registration

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Notes:

• Over a quarter (26.2%) of respondents replied that they have provided false demographic information when registering with Web sites. This suggests that sites which rely on information collected from registered users, should interpret their numbers conservatively.

• 11.1% have never registered with a Web site.

• There were no noticeable differences between European and US respondents.

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Notes:

• More males than females report providing false registration information: 29.8% of males compared to 18.8% of females.

• More females report never having registered with a Web site.

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Notes:

• Younger respondents are much more likely to provide false registration information than are older respondents: 32.0% for 19-25 years old, 25.0% for 26-50 years old, and 13.6% for those over 50 years old.

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Table of Data for All Categories

falsify	All	Male	Female	USA	Europe	19-25	26-50	50+
never	665 11.13%	314 7.99%	245 15.37%	393 9.41%	63 11.01%	133 10.11%	311 9.41%	40 9.05%
no	3742 62.65%	2445 62.20%	1050 65.87%	2634 63.07%	363 63.46%	762 57.90%	2173 65.75%	342 77.38%
yes	1566 26.22%	1172 29.81%	299 18.76%	1149 27.51%	146 25.52%	421 31.99%	821 24.84%	60 13.57%

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