Survey: APCUG Demographic Survey

What is your sex?

Describe the size of your workplace. (For those employed by large corporations, this refers to the part of your organization where your influence is felt.)

What influence over computer purchasing decisions do you have? a = Large corporation and big influencer; b = Large corporation and small influencer; c = Small business (may be own business) and big influencer; d = Small business and small influencer; e = not working, but big influencer of others; f = not working and small influencer of others

How would you describe your general computing proficiency (as concerns your personal computing needs, not as compared to others)?

What is the average age of your home PC or PCs, in years? If the PC has been gradually upgraded, treat the CPU as the determinant of age.

What brand of CPUs are in all your home PCs? (Check all that apply)

How much memory (RAM) is in your main home PC? (Choose lower value if you have some intermediate value)

What is the speed of your main home PC?

What is the total capacity of the hard disk/s in your main home PC?

What operating system/s is/are used on your home PCs? (Check all that apply)

What is the speed of your main modem in bits per second?

Which of the following computer peripherals do you own? (Check all that apply)

Which of the following do you intend to buy in the next 6 months? Check all that apply)

In the past 12 months, how much did you spend on hardware? (Do not use the $ symbol in these questions)

In the past 12 months, how much did you spend on consumables (paper, diskettes, CDs, cartridges etc)?

In the past 12 months, how much did you spend on software?

How many hours per week do you use a computer for non-business activities?

Have you ever purchased goods or services over the Internet?

Check all commercial computer magazines you read regularly, that is, two out of three consecutive issues.

In which industry sector do you work now?

How many computers (desktop and portable) in your organization? ("organization" refers to your immediate workplace as defined earlier, not in the global sense)

Where does your organization buy its desktop computers? (Dell and Gateway are examples of Direct vendors)

Where does your organization buy its network servers? (Dell and Gateway are examples of Direct vendors)

Where does your organization buy its PC software?

What brand of CPUs are in all your business PCs? (Tick all that apply)

What is the primary Network operating system at work?

What is the operating system on your primary work PC? (can be a desktop or laptop)

How old (in years) is your primary work PC? If the PC has been gradually upgraded, treat the CPU as the determinant of age.

How much memory (RAM) is in your primary work PC? (Choose lower value if you have some intermediate value)

What is the speed of your primary work PC?

What is the total capacity of the hard disk/s in your primary work PC?

How many hours per week do you use a computer for business activities?

How many years have you been a member of this user group? (Say 1 if less than 1)

How many members (approximately) are there in your user group?

How did you find out about your user group?

Why did you join your UG?

Why will you remain a member? If you will not renew, please say why in the Comments field.

What types of programs do you like at your monthly meetings? (Check all that apply)

What types of presentations do you like at your monthly meetings? (Check all that apply)

How many people (including yourself) read your copy of the newsletter?

When do you discard each issue of the newsletter?

What percentage of pages do you usually read?

How likely is a newsletter review to influence your purchase decision compared to reviews in commercial publications?

Likelihood to buy from a newsletter advertiser, compared to a non-advertiser, assuming everything else is identical

Please express your views about any aspect of your user group, both good and bad. (This is the last question.)