From: dhd@exnet.co.uk (Damon)
Newsgroups: exnet.misc,demon.local,uk.misc,uk.telecom
Subject: RESULTS of `home users' survey...
Date: 22 Nov 92 17:35:34 GMT
Organization: ExNet Systems Ltd Public Access News, London, UK

Thank you to all those (fewer than I expected!) who responded to the
`home users' survey.  I may run this again for all users in the UK at
some point in the future, though lots of people don't read uk.misc
(even users on our own system Bv<) so it still won't be a comprehensive
(never mind scientific) study.

The original posting follows below, then come the results summarised in
a useful way...

> Newsgroups: uk.misc
> Subject: Home systems... A survey...
> Distribution: uk
> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 19:22:30 GMT
> 
> I'm just interested to know how many people in the UK read USENET news
> at home---from a public-access system like mine, or from their local
> Uni or other educational establishment, or from their work.
> 
> By `read', I mean often, say at least once a week.
> 
> By `at home' I mean either by feed or by logging-in.
> 
> I'm just curious to know, and will summarise a response to the net in
> *about* a week from now.
> 
> Here is my little form to fill in.  I *won't* junk mail you, I'll
> discard names, mail headers, etc immediately.
> 
> Site you read your news from? (eg exnet.co.uk):
> Do you log in, or get a feed or both? (L/F/B):
> Is the site your own, commercial, from (say) a Uni, or from work? (O/C/E/W):
> How long have you been reading USENET news for in months?:
> First part of your postcode + approx location?:
> 
> Example for me:
> 
> Site you read your news from? (eg exnet.co.uk): exnet.co.uk
> Do you log in, or get a feed or both? (L/F/B): F
> Is the site your own, commercial, from (say) a Uni, or from work? (O/C/E/W): O
> How long have you been reading USENET news for in months?: 36
> First part of your postcode, approx location?: TW13, London
> 
> Ta,
>
> Damon


RESULTS
=======

Where someone responded with more than one answer I picked one of the
responses arbitrarily (usually the more `home' response, in fact).

Nothing particularly useful was present in the answers to the first
question nor in the postcodes, so those results are omitted.

Note that I did minimal editing of responses, so a site responding
`Islington' to `approx location' might equally well have answered
`London'.

To most or the questions the answer is summarised as:

  number-giving-this-answer   answer

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 1) Number of respondents
    =====================

  54

 2) Do you log in, or get a feed or both? (L/F/B)
    =============================================

  24 F
  18 L
  12 B

 3) Is the site your own, commercial, from (say) a Uni, or from work? (O/C/E/W)
    ===========================================================================

  24 O
  11 C
  11 W
   8 E

 4) How long have you been reading USENET news for in months?
    =========================================================

  [Mean: 34.5]

   1 168
   1 150
   1 120
   1 96
   1 90
   1 80
   2 72
   3 60
   1 54
   2 50
   2 48
   1 38
   5 36
   2 30
   1 28
   1 25
   2 24
   1 23
   3 18
   5 12
   6 6
   4 4
   3 3
   3 2
   1 1.5

 5) Approx location?
    ================

  10 London
   3 Cambridge
   2 Brighton
   2 Bristol
   2 Coventry
   2 Reading
   1 Abingdon
   1 Bath
   1 Bromley
   1 Chelmsford
   1 Chippenham
   1 Cirencester
   1 Croydon
   1 Doncaster
   1 Dundee
   1 Edinburgh
   1 Fife
   1 Finchley
   1 Glasgow
   1 Gloucestershire
   1 Hampstead
   1 Hatfield
   1 Herts
   1 Islington
   1 Manchester
   1 Merseyside
   1 Newcastle
   1 Nottingham
   1 Oxford
   1 Peterborough
   1 Shropshire
   1 Slough
   1 St Albans
   1 Warrington
   1 Watford
   1 West Midlands
   1 Winchester
   1 Woking
   1 Worthing

-- 
Damon Hart-Davis                          Internet: dhd@exnet.co.uk, d@hd.org

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