We received a total of 6,666* responses to this year’s survey. Thank you to everyone who participated! Plots of all results are included below the cut, and interactive plots for all results can be viewed here. You can also click on any plot below to open an interactive version. (This will be necessary to read the full answers to some questions, which may be cut off in the plot images below.)
Requests for additional analysis of this year’s survey results (e.g., relationships between questions, direct comparisons to results from past years, filtering of the results of one question by the results of another, etc.) can be submitted here.
Results from past surveys: 2015, 2017
*We previously reported receiving over 17,000 responses to this year’s survey, but all plots are based on 6,666 responses to the survey. This discrepancy is caused by an error made by Google. Google either previously misreported the total number of responses to this year’s survey, or it has lost all but 6,666 responses. We do not believe there is a way for us to determine which of these situations is the one that actually happened.
Edit (1/29/2019): After the survey was first opened, a number of questions were edited (primarily to add additional options or to allow multiple options to be selected). These changes are now listed with their corresponding plots below.
Channel Questions:
For the question above, the option "Other" was added after the survey was first opened.
For the question above, the option "Other" was added after the survey was first opened.
Preferences:
For the question above, the option "All" was added after the survey was first opened.
Video Preferences:
Phan:
The question above was amended after the survey was first opened to allow multiple options to be selected.
The question above was amended after the survey was first opened to allow multiple options to be selected.
The question above was amended after the survey was first opened to allow multiple options to be selected.
The question above was amended after the survey was first opened to allow multiple options to be selected.
The question above was amended after the survey was first opened to allow multiple options to be selected.
The question above was amended after the survey was first opened to allow multiple options to be selected.
The question above was amended after the survey was first opened to allow multiple options to be selected.
The question above was amended after the survey was first opened to allow multiple options to be selected.
The Phandom:
For the question above, the options "I consider myself to be part of the Phandom, and it is my only fandom" and "I do not consider myself to be part of any fandom" were added after the survey was first opened.
For the question above, the option "I would like to meet up in person, but it is impossible (geographically, financially, etc.)" was added after the survey was first opened.
Social Media:
Interactions with Dan and Phil:
Dan and Phil Products:
The question above was added after the survey was first opened.
The question above was added after the survey was first opened.
For the question above, the option "Yes: I was gifted a copy" was added after the survey was first opened.
For the question above, the option "I haven't bought anything" was added after the survey was first opened. The original omission of this option makes this plot fairly misleading. See this post for additional details.
Survey Participant Demographics:
The question above was amended after the survey was first opened to allow multiple options to be selected.
The question above was amended after the survey was first opened to allow multiple options to be selected.
For the question above, "Gay/Lesbian" was originally just "Gay" when the survey was first opened.
For the question above, "Gay/Lesbian" was originally just "Gay" when the survey was first opened.
For the question above, "Gay/Lesbian" was originally just "Gay" when the survey was first opened.
This post links to all of the individual posts containing additional analysis of the 2018 Dan and Phil Survey results. There are two parts to this post. In the first part, analysis posts that make comparisons to results from previous years are grouped together. In the second part, posts are grouped together according to the survey topic(s) the analysis pertains to. Most individual analysis posts are linked to more than once.
Original survey results can be found here.
———Part 1: Comparisons to Previous Years———
Can you show how the responses to the question about how survey participants perceive Dan and Phil's relationship have changed over time?
Can you show how the responses to the questions about how survey participants perceive Dan and Phil's sexualities have changed over time?
Can you show how the responses to the question about whether survey participants have started a relationship with someone thanks to Dan and Phil have changed over time?
How has the age distribution of survey participants changed over the years?
How have the responses to the questions about gender identity and whether people identify as cis, trans, non-binary, or intersex changed over the years?
Can you show how the responses to the questions about survey participants' sexuality and romantic attraction have changed over time?
———Part 2: Analysis by Survey Topic———
Channel Questions
How do people's first impressions of Dan and Phil's sexualities change by their year of discovery of Dan and Phil?
Preferences
what is the relationship between viewer sexuality and preferred type of content (joint, individual)?
Video Preferences
No analysis was performed on the questions pertaining to this topic.
Phan
Dan and Phil’s Relationship
Can you show how the responses to the question about how survey participants perceive Dan and Phil's relationship have changed over time?
For people who selected multiple answers for the question regarding their impression of the nature of Dan and Phil's relationship, what does the breakdown of combinations of responses look like?
what is the relationship between perception of Dan and Phil’s relationship and where survey participants’ consume content/feel they are a part of?
what is the relationship between perception of Dan and Phil’s relationship and survey participants' experience of sexuality/romantic attraction?
What is the relationship between viewer sexuality and if they ship phan?
How do the responses to the question about why or why not people ship Phan change by social media Phandom?
Dan and Phil’s Sexualities
Can you show how the responses to the questions about how survey participants perceive Dan and Phil's sexualities have changed over time?
what is the relationship between perception of Dan and Phil’s sexualities and where survey participants’ consume content/feel they are a part of?
What is the relationship between survey participants' view of Dan and Phil's sexuality and survey participants' age?
What is the relationship between survey participants' view of Dan and Phil's sexuality and survey participants' country of residence?
What is the relationship between survey participants' view of Dan and Phil's sexuality and survey participants' gender identity?
What is the relationship between survey participants' view of Dan and Phil's sexuality and survey participants' own experience of sexuality/romantic attraction?
How do people's first impressions of Dan and Phil's sexualities change by their year of discovery of Dan and Phil?
The Phandom
what is the relationship between perception of Dan and Phil’s relationship and where survey participants’ consume content/feel they are a part of?
How do the responses to the question about why or why not people ship Phan change by social media Phandom?
what is the relationship between perception of Dan and Phil’s sexualities and where survey participants’ consume content/feel they are a part of?
What does the age distribution of the Phandom look like by platform (Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, etc.)?
Can you show how the responses to the question about whether survey participants have started a relationship with someone thanks to Dan and Phil have changed over time?
Social Media
I was looking at the social media questions and I'd be curious to see how many people responding to the survey even had accounts on those websites, so the numbers could be compared. E.g. if 6/10 people used Twitter but only 4/6 of those followed Dan on Twitter, that could be something that's brought up. Maybe next time?
How does frequency of commenting on Dan and Phil's YouTube videos change with age?
Interactions with Dan and Phil
What is the breakdown of age for the questions relating to whether Dan or Phil have ever interacted with survey participants on social media?
What is the breakdown of country of residence for the questions relating to whether Dan or Phil have ever interacted with survey participants on social media?
What is the breakdown of gender identity for the questions relating to whether Dan or Phil have ever interacted with survey participants on social media?
What is the breakdown of experience of sexuality for the questions relating to whether Dan or Phil have ever interacted with survey participants on social media?
What is the breakdown of experience of romantic attraction for the questions relating to whether Dan or Phil have ever interacted with survey participants on social media?
Dan and Phil Products
"I would be interested in a general 'Have you ever spent money on a Dan and/or Phil product or event?' question as well, or at least pulling from this data how many respondents answered yes to any of the tour/book/merch questions." and (paraphrasing) How do responses about having bought and/or having been given something produced by Dan and Phil change with age?
each question about the DH shop had more people indicating they’d bought something than the last. Can you break that down?
Survey Participant Demographics
Age
How has the age distribution of survey participants changed over the years?
"I would be interested in a general 'Have you ever spent money on a Dan and/or Phil product or event?' question as well, or at least pulling from this data how many respondents answered yes to any of the tour/book/merch questions." and (paraphrasing) How do responses about having bought and/or having been given something produced by Dan and Phil change with age?
What is the relationship between survey participants' view of Dan and Phil's sexuality and survey participants' age?
What does the age distribution of the Phandom look like by platform (Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, etc.)?
How does frequency of commenting on Dan and Phil's YouTube videos change with age?
What is the breakdown of age for the questions relating to whether Dan or Phil have ever interacted with survey participants on social media?
Country of Residence
What is the relationship between survey participants' view of Dan and Phil's sexuality and survey participants' country of residence?
What is the breakdown of country of residence for the questions relating to whether Dan or Phil have ever interacted with survey participants on social media?
Gender Identity
How have the responses to the questions about gender identity and whether people identify as cis, trans, non-binary, or intersex changed over the years?
What is the relationship between survey participants' view of Dan and Phil's sexuality and survey participants' gender identity?
What is the breakdown of gender identity for the questions relating to whether Dan or Phil have ever interacted with survey participants on social media?
What is the relationship between cis/trans/non-binary/intersex/etc. identity of survey participants and their gender identity?
What is the relationship between survey participants' experience of sexuality and romantic attraction and their gender identity?
Sexuality/Romantic Attraction
Can you show how the responses to the questions about survey participants' sexuality and romantic attraction have changed over time?
what is the relationship between viewer sexuality and preferred type of content (joint, individual)?
what is the relationship between perception of Dan and Phil’s relationship and survey participants' experience of sexuality/romantic attraction?
What is the relationship between viewer sexuality and if they ship phan?
What is the relationship between survey participants' view of Dan and Phil's sexuality and survey participants' own experience of sexuality/romantic attraction?
What is the breakdown of experience of sexuality for the questions relating to whether Dan or Phil have ever interacted with survey participants on social media?
What is the breakdown of experience of romantic attraction for the questions relating to whether Dan or Phil have ever interacted with survey participants on social media?
What is the relationship between survey participants' experience of sexuality and romantic attraction and their gender identity?
As with previous years, we are releasing the raw responses to the survey to give everyone the opportunity to do whatever analysis they would like on the data. Timestamps have been removed, and the rows representing individual responses have been shuffled to protect the anonymity of people who took the survey at the same time as a friend or group. Have fun exploring the raw data!
We are gearing up to release the Dan and Phil Survey 2018 however we have a few things that we need extra help with before we can and we are looking for your help!
What we are looking for is:
- 2-3 people to help with the stats and analyzing of the survey when all the data is in.
- Someone to design us a header and icon for 2018.
If you can help out with either of the above them please send us a message, off anon.
Even if you cannot help with the above, a RT would really help us out to spread the word as much as possible <3
