#fandom census

[imasimpcentral]

Starkid Fandom Census

calling all starkid fans!! please fill out this census if you consider yourself a starkid fan and considering reposting THANK YOU!

Starkid Fandom Census

heavily inspired by @vampinof's dan and phil census on twitter. hosted by @oliverpliers on twitter

[newsiesfandomsurvey]

Some Preliminary Results!

We have been busy crunching the numbers, and we’re back with some results! In this post, we’ll talk about some basic demographics of the newsies fandom: Age, Gender, and where they’re from! If you find this interesting, please let us know what you’d like to see in another post.

So... the data.

We conducted a survey of Newsies fans between late May and December 2021. Fans had to be at least 18 years of age and able to provide informed consent. The survey and advertisement were in English. It was shared on various social media platforms. No identifying information (IP addresses, precise locations, birthdates, or names) were collected, although participants were about to answer some free response questions in ways that might have identified them.

You can learn more about the questions and find all the results on Github.

We had 160 unique respondents who consented to participate. (One person did not consent and two people submitted their survey results twice.) You can see spikes and plateaus in the recruitment data; we think most people participated when they saw a reblog or retweet! Most people found the survey through Tumblr.

[ID: A two panel figure. On the left, a plot showing the cumulative number of respondents to the survey over time. The x-axis shows months between May and December 2021, the y-axis shows cumulative number of participants. There are a series of spikes, with the largest jump in May, followed by spikes in August and November/December. The right panel shows a barchart with the number of people who found the survey through Tumblr (n=109), Twitter (n=21), Facebook (n=9), or had it shared by a friend (n=22). End ID]

Age

We asked about age, discretized into groups of 18-21, 22-25, 25-29, 30-34, 35-40, 41-45, and over 45. We were not able to include people under 18 in the survey because of certain quirks of the university ethics approval we received. This means our results are biased away from younger fans, but hopefully also gives a picture of the fandom. More than 60% of our respondents were under 25! So, Newsies seems like a young fandom. However, we also had 12 respondents over 40, maybe meaning that once you’re a fansie, you stick with it.

[ID: A bar chart of ages among survey participants. There are six groups: Ages 18-21 (70 respondents, 43.8%), 22-25 with 28 respondents, 17.5%), 26-30 (20 respondents, 12.5%), 31-35 (12 respondents, 7.5%), 36-40 (18 respondents, 11.2%) and 41 and older (12 respondents, 7.5%). End ID]

Gender

We also asked about gender in two questions: first, “What gender do you identify as?” and second, “Are you trans?.” We allowed some free text responses, as well as the four single choice options. Based on those responses, we added one new category, “Questioning,” based on responses like “IDK, gender is hard” and “I’ll let you know when I do.” We also had two answers which were combined into the genderqueer category. (Our ethics requireed us to collapse unique demographic categories into more common names or otherwise mask individual-level data).

Maybe unsurprisingly, most people who responded were women. More surprisingly, while none of the women who responded were trans, about 60% of the men were. In the pie charts below, the proportion of cis respondents are show in red, the proportion trans are shown in light blue, and black reflects those who chose not to respond; black in the bar charts does not reflect whether someone is cis or trans.

[ID: A bar chart showing gender distributions in the Newsies fandom with pie charts showing transgender identity for each gender. Genders were female (109 people, 68.1% with 100% cis participants); Male (n=12, 7.5%; with 2/3 trans respondents); Nonbinary (n=27, 16.9%; 2 non-respondents, 2/3 respondents were trans); Genderqueer (n=6, 3.8%, 2/3 trans), questioning (n=4, 2.5%), and 2 did not respond. End ID.]

Location

We had respondents all over the world. The map highlights countries respondents were from. The colors are meaningless and simply intended to highlight the locations where people live.

[ID: A world map showing where people who responded to the survey lived. Countries included the US, Canada, Brazil, United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, France, Spain, The Netherlands, Sweden, Thailand, and Australia. End ID]

We were also able to look at US states. People who responded lived in the states that are colored on the map; the colors are once again independent of the number of people.

[ID: States where respondents live. You can find the full list of 35 states here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jwdebelius/newsies-survey/main/data/states.txt. END ID]

What’s next?

We have a lot more survey results! If you’d like to access the data, you can find it on our GitHub page. We’ve got the code that was used to analyze this data, plus some more analysis that we didn’t present here.

We’d like to do more of these posts if there’s interest! What other things would you be interested in knowing about: Favorite media, Favorite ships, Favorite characters, queer identities, fandom participation, or something else?

Thanks!

We want to thank everyone who participated in the survey!

We’d also like to thank @color--pals​ for permission to use their lovely color palette!

[voltroncensus]

Welcome to Voltron Census 2018, the beginning of an annual inquisitive analysis which hopes to learn more about what drives the opinions and interests of members of the Voltron fandom. 

This census will use the sample group (you) to learn more about the demographics of the Voltron: Legendary Defender fandom. Statistics on identities, shipping, ages, and more will be collected as a means to further understand why members of this fandom like the things they like, and what could possibly be behind this! This is fully anonymous, although you will have to sign into your google account to complete it. This is to prevent anyone from filling out the form multiple times to skew the results. Please answer honestly!

Rules:

answer honestly

only fill it out once

please spread the word! if you have a voltron account on another platform please spread the word there. 

*optional* follow this blog for updates and the final statistics once the form is closed! as of yet there is no closing date in mind, but it will likely be open for multiple months. 

click here, or on the image, to be taken to the questionnaire! 

[startingxi]

Have you ever wondered how many blogs support each team? What is the age range of our fandom? Where does everybody live? This fandom census is a follow-up to our last fandom census from November 2014 and aims to compare the state of the fandom then to the state of the fandom now!

From now until 20th January we are conducting a census of the football fandom!  On 22nd January we'll be sharing the results of the census and comparing how the fandom has changed over the last three years (or, if you're curious now, you can check out the results of 2014's census here.)

Please fill out this census once and be sure to share it with others!  Thanks for participating; we can't wait to share the results with you!

To complete the census: { c l i c k h e r e }

ETA 1: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, & Wales have now been differentiated!  Thank you to those who pointed this out!

ETA 2: Hong Kong has been added as an option; River Plate has been added as an option for favorite team; SC Freiburg typo has been corrected!

ETA 3: Other is now an option for favorite team, along with space to fill in your favorite team.

[thelesmisbigbang]

I'm really excited about the whole Les Misérables Big bang. Thank you ! Also, will you publish the results of your demographic survey? I'm curious

We’re super excited too!!

Results will be published, but not until a while after the Big Bang closes. We want everyone to have a chance to respond to the form, and the Mods are increasingly busy with the event, so we don’t have time to analyze and present the numbers for publication right now. But it will be posted to our blog when the results are in! There are already some fascinating patterns emerging in the data (which includes ~700 people so far).

[startingxi]

thank you for conducting the survey!!!!! was there anything particularly striking about the results? like, did anything surprise you?

i’m glad that folks have enjoyed participating in this process!  there were a few things that caught my eye:

the fandom perception of barcelona being more popular than real madrid and the perception of bayern munich being more popular than borussia dortmund, when in both cases the opposite is true.

the number of bundesliga fans was a pleasant surprise for me. i personally don’t follow bundesliga sides at all really except during ucl, so seeing that result was interesting to me.

i was surprised that nwsl wasn’t more widely followed, however i’m thinking that may be because the survey itself may have seemed more geared toward men’s soccer. i’ll try to make the next version even more inclusive in hopes of getting an even more accurate picture of the fandom as a whole.

mostly i was really happy that so many people took the time to respond, and i’m especially looking forward to seeing how we change and grow over time!  

-ali/ @guti

[startingxi]

When will the census results be published? Is the data going to be available for public use?

the census will close on janurary 20th and the goal is to have everything ready and published on january 22nd.  i’m planning to share the unfiltered results, along with a post containing some graphics/charts of edited results (combining spelling/abbreviated names into a single answer, not edited answers, just edited for spelling/clarity.)  if you’re interested in using the data, you’re welcome to it.  and once it’s closed, i’d be happy to share the survey itself.  you can hit me (ali) up personally on my blog ( @guti ) or hit up the mod team here at startingxi! :)

[femmefandom]

If you participate in fandom, we want YOU to contribute to #science!

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IT'S TIME FOR A FANDOM CENSUS!

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