As part of an ongoing project I am running with the Ordnance Survey (The UK Mapping Agency), I am looking at the demographic of hill walkers by age. What better group to choose to sample than SOTA. I appreciate the initial result may be skued by the age demography of Radio Amateurs. However, when mixed with feedback from other groups we should have some interesting results to analyse.
What I am asking you to do is vote in your age bracket. I have not requested to know who has voted, that is irrelavant. Obviously the more votes I get the better the result and smaller the margin of error.
Yes it is activators - hill walkers. We are trying to create a picture of the age range of hill walkers across the UK and the world. The input from SOTA forms just one part of the data gathering process. Hopefully I will be in a position to publish the results later in the year.
Hopefully I will be able to answer that question fairly soon - however, at first glance the answer is no - we are unique. I need to see and compare with other surveys being run at the moment.
Probably not. The mountaineering club that I am in consists mostly of people in their 20’s and 30’s with approximately equal numbers of males and females. They tend to drop out as they start families and some (like me) return when their offspring become independant, but returnees are in the minority.
I also wonder what an “average SOTA operator” is. Does he/she do one, ten, a hundred activations a year? Is there any correlation between age, sex and the number of activations a year?