Clojure community survey 2016 results

[Alex Miller]

Results and analysis are available here:

http://blog.cognitect.com/blog/2017/1/31/state-of-clojure-2016-results

Many thanks to all that responded!

Alex

[Erik Assum]

Thanks!

You say 2,420 people took the survey this year. How does that compare to previous years?

Erik.
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[Sean Corfield]

On 2/7/17, 11:01 AM, "Erik Assum" <clo...@googlegroups.com on behalf of er...@assum.net> wrote:
> You say 2,420 people took the survey this year. How does that compare to previous years?

The blog post says “This year we held steady in our response rate as 2,420 of you took the time and effort to weigh in on your experience” and http://blog.cognitect.com/blog/2016/1/28/state-of-clojure-2015-survey-results shows 2,445 responses last year.

Previous year was 1,339.

Sean

[Mars0i]

Thanks for the survey!

I think the size distribution for the academic and government/military categories might be due to different respondents deciding how to disambiguate the question in different ways.  For example, everyone who works for the U.S. government works in an organization of the same size, but some might view their organization instead as a government department or an entity within a department, or a research team within a larger entity, etc.  So you might say that you work in an organization of size 1-10 even if you work for the U.S. government.  If this is correct, the distribution for these categories isn't meaningful except as information about what people think of as their "organization" when they are forced to decide.

By contrast, in business, respondents might make similar decisions, but I suspect that's it's most common to view the organization as a "company", whether that's merely the smallest company for which one works, or instead a parent company that owns a smaller company for which one works, etc.  My intuition is that most people won't say they work for an organization of size 1-10 unless the smallest company they work for has no more than 10 employees.