This post is part of the AO3 census data analysis.
N.B. The above percentages refer to % of total responses to this question, and sum to 100%. Percentages shown below refer to the % of total survey participants unless otherwise specified.
This question was phrased as "What language(s) do you normally use on the archive?" with the instructions "Check all which apply."
Responses
Translations of the language names into English were not shown on the survey, but have been provided below for ease of reference.
The responses were selected with the following frequencies:
English - 9974 respondents. 99.7%
Русский [Russian] - 58 respondents. 0.6%
Español [Spanish] - 168 respondents. 1.7%
Français [French] - 151 respondents. 1.5%
Italiano [Italian] - 42 respondents. 0.4%
Deutsch [German] - 120 respondents. 1.2%
中文 [Chinese] - 25 respondents. 0.2%
Polski [Polish] - 41 respondents. 0.4%
Português [Portuguese] - 37 respondents. 0.4%
Bahasa Indonesia [Indonesian] - 5 respondents. 0.0%
Other: Textbox - 27 respondents. 0.3%
23 respondents (0.2%) did not respond to this question.
A total of 10648 boxes were checked, or an average of 1.07 per response. The most responses given by a single person was 4. 9376 respondents (93.9%) selected only one box.
606 respondents checked two or more boxes, accounting for 1272 responses in total. Of those 606 people:
605 selected English (47.6%)
58 selected Русский (4.6%)
167 selected Español (13.1%)
150 selected Français (11.8%)
41 selected Italiano (3.2%)
120 selected Deutsch (9.4%)
24 selected 中文 (1.9%)
40 selected Polski (3.1%)
36 selected Português (2.8%)
4 selected Bahasa Indonesia (0.3%)
27 selected Other (2.1%)
Other
Of the 27 write-in responses, the following were entered more than once:
Nederlands/Dutch (6 responses)
Hebrew (5 responses)
Finnish (5 responses)
Danish/Dansk (3 responses)
日本語 [Japanese] (3 responses)
Svenska/Swedish (2 responses)
Limitations
This survey was written in English, and thus will have an obvious bias towards English-language fandom.
