| Survey report Fluwiki
General
The survey was open from 13 November 2008 to 9 December 2008. In total, 103 respondents started survey, of which 78 (75.7%) finished the survey. Next we will describe the data for every survey question.
Example graph
The graph most used in this survey report is the top 5 bar chart. It visualizes the 5 predefined answer options that respondents found most important. The Other category on the right side of the graph represents the cumulative total of all other predefined answer options, which have a lower ranking.
Profile
Figure 1: Age distribution (n=99)
Figure 1 gives an overview of Fluwiki's age distribution. A vast majority (85.8%) is 40 years or older and nearly one third is 55 years or older.
Figure 2: Gender distribution (n=101)
As illustrated by figure 2, most visitors of fluwiki are female (64.4%).
Figure 3 Distribution of educational levels (n=102)
Fluwiki visitors are fairly high educated. The majority (71.6%) holds an academic degree.
Figure 4: Nationality distribution (n=98)
Fluwiki is an American website, which is represented in the nationality of the visitors: 81.6% of the visitors come from the USA, followed by United Kingdom (6.1%) and Canada (3.1%).
Figure 5: Top 5 primary areas of employment (n=93)
As shown in Figure 5, most visitors are working in the Health care and Social assistance sector (20.4%), Government and Public administration sector (10.8%) and Primary / Secondary education sector (8.6%). In addition, 16.1% of the visitors are retired.
Internet experience
Figure 6: Years of internet experience (n=102)
Most visitors are very familiar with internet: 64.7% has more than 10 years of experience.
Time spent on website
Figure 7: Distribution of the time spent on Fluwiki (n=93)
Figure 7 shows the distribution of the time spent on the website. The largest group are visitors who spent an hour or less (31.1%). However, a considerable minority (35.9%) spends more than 4 hours and almost 5% spends even 20 or more hours a week.
Online Activities
Figure 8: Distribution of online activities (n=92)
What are Fluwiki's visitors most favourite online activities? According to figure 8, most visitors are reading (33.9%), searching (20.0%) and collecting (16.4%). Only a small share is actually creating content (6.5%).
Most favourite topics
Figure 9: Distribution of the top 5 topics discussed on Fluwiki (n=89)
Knowledge on influenza pandemic is the most important topic (44.3%), followed by best practices (13.4%) and personal experiences (8.1%). Private information, regular chit-chat, is one of the least favourite topics (0.8%)
Benefits
Figure 10: Distribution of the most important benefits (n=89)
Access to specialists on influenza pandemic (15.4%) and the acquisition of specific knowledge, e.g. from the wiki, (33.7%) are the most important benefits attributed to Fluwiki. Social benefits, like Cross-cultural experience, Expanding my network, the acquisition of New friends and entertainment are of minor importance: together they count for only 5% of the most important benefits to join Fluwiki.
Drawbacks
Figure 11: Distribution of perceived drawbacks (n=66)
The drawbacks visitors have are quite diverse, indicating by the small differences in share between the options. Domination of few peers / opinions (17.2%), limited reliability of information (15.4%) and risk of privacy infringements/ open access to my personal information (13.7%) are considered as the most important drawbacks.
Impacts
Figure 12: Distribution of the top 10 impacts (n=66)
The most important impact of Fluwiki is that users introduce or develop new policies regarding influenza pandemic (15.7%) and the information available saves visitors time (13.7%).
Values
Figure 13: Top 10 values associated with fluwiki (n=84)
Figure 14: Top 5 values least associated with fluwiki (n=84)
Figure 13 and 14 show the most and the least associated values, attributed to Fluwiki. Fluwiki is especially characterized by "Community sense" (17.8%), Expertise (14.7%) and Professionalism (9.1%). Social values, like Empathy, Cohesiveness and Acceptation and formality are least associated with Fluwiki.
Most favourite functionalities
Figure 15: Distribution of the most favourite functionalities of Fluwiki (n=84)
More than 75% of the visitors favour Fluwiki's Forum (52.9%) and wiki (24.6%).
Feedback
37 respondents filled out the open question what they would like to see in a next version of Fluwiki's website. The top 3 points of improvement are:
1. User interface: easy access and navigation
2. Ability to edit / comment
3. More effective search engine |
