The results are in.
Over 400 of you took my FlowerDust.net reader survey and I thought I’d share some intresting demographics about you group of crazy kids.
If you’re interested in all the details, you can download a nifty PDF I made of the results here.
- 60% of the readers who took the survey are women. Which honestly makes me believe it’s pretty evenly split. No offense guys, but I think women are more willing to take surveys than you are. :)
- 31.6% of you are aged 25-31, with the next largest group by age is 32-40 (27.2%)
- 94% have at least some college education, if not more. 23.2% have a grad degree (or two).
- You guys have some money. 32% make between $35k-65k a year. Almost 30% make $65k-100k. And 18% of you make $100k or more annually.
- 118 countries were represented. The USA had the most visits.
- Texas sends the most visitors within the US, followed by California and Tennessee.
- 51% of you attend a church activity at least once a week.
- Almost 24% are on a church staff. 11% of you “formerly” served in church leadership…interesting.
- 60% attend 1-2 conferences a year.
- You love to read! Almost 33% read twenty books or more annually.
- A surprising 31% of you don’t blog, but are active on Facebook (89.7%) and Twitter (71.1%)
- 36% read new FlowerDust.net posts as soon as they are up, and 52% “usually” read them.
- About half of you are new – have been around for under six months, but almost 29% have been reading for at least a year, if not two or three.
- Most people get their posts through RSS (51%) and found FlowerDust.net because of someone’s blogroll (29%) or an article I wrote (21%)
- THANK YOU to the 62% who have recommended something on FlowerDust.net to a friend!
- Your favorite topics? Social Justice, Compassion International trips and other travel, controversial/taboo topics, women and leadership, honest struggles, church life, burnout, depression, anxiety, book reviews, spiritual revelations and videos.
What do you think? Any surprises? Anything you’d like to add?
Thank you all for helping…it was really insightful!
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12 responses to “This Post is ALL About YOU!”
well aren’t we an interesting group of people? I’d love to hear from those formerly on church staffs. What do they do for a living now? I know that can be hard for those in ministry many years.
Jan Owen?s last blog post..Resting in God
Interesting results … what’s next?
Anticipating …
Linda Stoll?s last blog post..July’s Homekeeping Tasks
100K+ dang. that wasn’t me. lol.
Crystal Renaud?s last blog post..Abrupt Departure
The most amazing stat to me? The 118 countries that responded. Knew you had a good scattering worldwide. Didn’t dream it was that high. Wonderful!
If you do more polls in the future, one I’d be curious to see is how many of us live where we can actually use internet audio and video. We don’t, but more and more sites now use a lot of it. Some are totally dependent on it (so we can’t visit them at all).
Out here, to be strictly accurate, both are POSSIBLE. Barely. But audio means you let a 15-minute sermon load for 1 1-2 to 2 hours, then it all plays. And since the internet line is also our phone line, that’s not very practical. We rarely do it.
Video loads for 5 to 10 minutes; then shows about a 5 second clip, then repeats that cycle till it’s all done. That means a 3 minute video would take 3 to 6 hours to watch. So we miss all the videos. We do appreciate that you usually put in enough text to summarize for us.
We do sense God is going to have us move in the not-to-distant future. Unfortunately that may not help. The area we think he’s leading us to appears to have even less cell phone and internet coverage than here
I suspect the large majority of your readers can watch videos just fine. But also expect you’ll find that large parts of some thinly populated states like Wyoming and Montana, especially out-of-town areas like ours, can’t do it. So while you serve the majority (and rightly so), please don’t forget about us!
ditto. the agree that the 118 countries represented was a cool thing to find out. particularly cool that you saw that wide of a reach out of 400 surveys.
Crystal Renaud?s last blog post..Abrupt Departure
I think it is so wonderful how your generation is using the internet and social networking tools and blogs to interact. I am one of the “old girls” participating in this and find it sad that my group is not more tuned in. Keep up the good work.
yep, i am one of the 11% formerly in church leadership; i suspect Joy, me and you could have quite the interesting conversation about that :)
Anne,
I too, found the results of your recent poll fascinating. I love it that so many respondents are avid readers; and didn’t find it surprising that more than half are women. You men are missing out on some incredible writings here, so get after it and follow this blog!
I also am one of the 11% formerly in a church leadership role. I abdicated to my husband. Still teaching little ones and filling in elsewhere when necessary though.
I am one of the new readers of your blog, and am a new blogger myself. Just getting my feet wet in that area though.
Would like to thank you very much for the inspiration you give to us readers. Yes, I do now realize that I can still make a difference right here on my computer. Thank you, Anne for that insight.
Blessings to you.
Amy
Amy/Nenya71?s last blog post..61 Years – A Small Tribute
I didn’t see a place for former church leader status. Add me to that. No longer in ministry.
Interesting strata of folks on here.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Sara Ross?s last blog post..honor one another
Wow, you must spend some incredible time to make out those statistical data. Great to share it. Great too for your future surveys.
I bet I’m the only one who can say I read your site because we had burping contests together in junior high!