Unraveled

Jess and I just got back from TNNA and I really wanted to post the results from the survey that I did before we left. I apologize for the lackluster presentation – I didn’t want to delay any longer. Someone asked about the ages of Ravelry users in the forums and we thought that it would be fun to do a quick survey. BIG Thanks to all of the 11,000ish people that answered the survey.

It is important to note that this data comes from the survey responses of roughly 25% of Ravelry’s active users.

Edited to add the answers to the Monty Python question. Also, Ravelers who are reading this inside Ravelry – you can comment on this post by stopping by our blog.

Here we go:

ages

• Average age: 37
• Median age: 35
• < 20: 2%
• 20-29: 29%
• 30-39: 32%
• 40-49: 21%
• 50-59: 13%
• 60-69: 3%
• 70 and above: <1%

We have many wonderful users above the age of 75 but my graph didn’t show ages with only 1 respondent…

knitting or crochet?

Crocheters are in the minority but their numbers are increasing.

years of experience

I’ve got more information (going back to 1 user who began in 1933) but I wanted to quickly share some interesting data about users who began to knit and crochet during the last few years. The question that we asked was:

In what year did you start [knitting|crocheting] seriously? (ie. may be after you first learned)

What… is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

Results from the people who answered:

• African or European?: 3207
• something about… Shrubbery: 20
• something about… Elderberries: 19
• something about… Coconuts: 162
• Laden or Unladen?: 151
• 24 mph: 65
• 25 mph: 9
• forty-two: 56
• forty-three: 45
• Blue, no yellow!: 114