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Internet Demographics Survey
Internet users are affluent, well educated, mostly from the US and relatively new to the Web. This is a summary of the 3rd annual demographic Web survey by the Graphics and Visualization Laboratory, which provides worldwide Internet demographic analysis. Figures are based on their 1995 survey.

Average age across all users was 35.01 years old
15.5% of the users were female, 82.0% male, 2.5% "Rather not say!".
Overall median income is between $50,000 and $60,000 US dollars, estimated average income $69,000.
80.6% of the respondents were from the US, 9.8% from Europe, and 5.8% from Canada and Mexico, with other major geographical locations being represented, but to a lesser degree.
Computer (31.4%) and Educational (23.7%) occupations represent the majority of respondents. Professional (21.9%), Management (12.2%), and "other" occupations (10.8%) fill out the other categories.
Over 50% of users are relatively new, having first accessed the Internet within the past 12 months.
50.3% of the users are married, with 40.0% being single, 5.7% divorced.
39.0% of all users do not subscribe to an online service, with Prodigy (37.0%), America Online (30.0%), and Compuserve (21.1%) being the most dominant subscribe online services.
Primary Internet providers are: local online providers (27.9%), major online providers (27.5%), & educational providers (26.5%).
85.7% of computers were reported as being shared.

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