General-Purpose Demographics

In our second crowdsourcing task we collect demographic data of the workers. Therefore we use a set of general-purpose demographic variables. These variables are shown in the questionnaire below:

Q1: What is your gender?

○ male

○ female

○ other


Q2: How old are you? _____________________________


Q3: What is the highest level of education you have completed?

○ Still in school

○ Finished school with no qualifications

○ Secondary school-leaving certificate/Junior High Diploma

○ General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSEs)

○ Vocational secondary certification (completion of specialized secondary school/college)

○ A-levels/International Baccalaureate, subject-related higher education entrance qualification

○ Bachelor Degree (University)

○ Master Degree (University)

○ PhD


Q4: What do you do professionally?

○ Pupil/in school

○ Training/apprenticeship

○ University student

○ Employee

○ Civil servant

○ Self-employed

○ Unemployed/seeking employment


Q5: What is your family status?

○ single living with parents

○ single living alone

○ single living with partner

○ married

○ divorced

○ widowed


Q6: Do you have a US citizenship?

○ yes

○ no


Q7: Are you born in the US(required)

○ yes

○ no


Q8: What describes your political affiliation best?

○ I am in favor of the republican party

○ I am in favor of the democratic party

○ I am undecided

○ I am in favor of a third party/movement


Descriptive Statistics

230 subjects participated in the quantitative phase of our study. Of those, 85 (37%) submitted demographic information. These subjects had a mean age of 35.4 (SD 13.4) years. In the following we show, how they answered the demographic questionnaire:

Political Affiliation

Family Status

Education

Religion

Profession

Race