Internet demographic and usage survey
benoit Lips
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This internet survey is an important part of a sociological study about
electronic communications. It aims at establishing the internet user
profile. Completing this form takes less than 10 minutes.
Feel free to post this survey (unchanged!) to any others appropriate
place (valid until 11-94).
Thank you for your time and your help,
Benoit Lips
Replies and infos: <li...@pcpm.ucl.ac.be>
Do you want to receive a summary of this analysis (1-Yes/2-No):
If yes, please indicate your e-mail adress:
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Important note: If you have any trouble with a question, answer 0 (zero).
If there is more than one answer, please separate by commas.
0) Where did you find this survey (small description, for information
propagation study ...):
Personal information
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1) Age:
2) Sex (M/F):
3) Sector of activity:
4) Country:
Internet usage:
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How would you rate your experience
1-novice
2-basic
3-experienced
4-guru
with:
5) Computers:
6) Internet:
7) How many years have you been using computers (years):
8) How many years have you been using internet (years):
9) How many years have you been using BBS services (years):
10) What platform do you mainly use to access internet services
1-Macintosh
2-PC DOS
3-PC Windows
4-Unix
5-Others
Your answer:
11) What is your primary use of internet
1-Professional
2-Personal
Your answer:
12) Do you use commercial BBS services
1-Yes
2-No
Your answer:
13) If yes, which
1-America Online
2-Prodigy
3-Compuserve
4-Genie
5-Others
Your answer:
14) Do you use videotex services
1-Yes
2-No
Your answer:
15) What kind of connection to internet do you use
1-LAN-WAN (your local network or a larger network)
2-Dialup-modem
3-leased line
4-PSTN
5-ISDN
6-Others
0-Don't know
Your answer:
16) Who provides you an internet connection
1-Private company
2-Institutional (Academic and Research Netw.))
Your answer:
17) Who pay for it
1-You (Personnal)
2-You (Professional)
3-Your company)
Your answer:
18) How much does it cost ? (connexion + providers charges, estimation
US$/month):
19) How would you qualify the costs (from 1 (cheap) to 5 (expensive), 0
(don't know)) ?:
In the following list
1-E-mail
2-FTP
3-telnet
4-gopher
5-Wais
6-IRC
7-WWW
8-Archie
9-Others
Your answer:
20) What is your main internet tool (one answer only, 1-9):
21) What are the others (all that apply, decreasing order of interest):
22) Using keywords, indicate your majors fields of interests for internet
informations (max. 10, like hobby, computers, communication, travel,
business opportunities, ...):
23) How often do you use internet access (in a month):
24) Estimate the meantime of one connection/utilisation (in minutes) (If
you have a permanent connection, indicate utilisation meantime ):
25) Have you met any of your "internet" correspondent
1-Never
2-sometimes
3-regulary
Your answer:
26) Have you ever contributed to the internet world
1-shareware
2-infos
3-answers to usenet news
4-others
5-Never
Your answer:
27) What is yoour main source of information regarding internet
1-books
2-magazines
3-internet
4-provider
5-others
Your answer:
28) Have you bought books about internet
1-Yes
2-No
Your answer :
29) If yes, how many:
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Note: This form is copyrighted Benoit Lips 8-94, all right reserved.
And don't forget to send your reply to <li...@pcpm.ucl.ac.be>
Thank you very much for your time!
gand...@mit.edu
I cannot complete the survey below and so am returning it to you. Before
I can feel comfortable completing it and forwarding it to others,
you should first be more descriptive aobut the study - who is sponsoring
it, who is doing it, what the goals of the survey are, and how it might
be used, who will be working with the data, etc.. As you know,
people are becoming very wary of descriptive surveys such as this
which have very little information context and whose purposes are
not well-defined.
There is no provision for privacy or protection of individual
user names and profiles; the reply feature will
link individuals to the demographics of the survey; this is a
flawed gathering mechanism, and the concerns about how this
information (no matter how innocous) may be used are very real.
I am copying this back to the isoc-interest list, because I
believe that all of us need to raise our awareness regarding
protections on the net.
I hope you will take steps to insure privacy and provide better
information about this project so that users will then be
reassured and encouraged to participate.
Thanks,
Greg Anderson
MIT Libraries
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