Are you a virgin? MyGaming survey results

The MyGaming Lifestyle Survey 2014 has wrapped up, we’ve crunched the numbers, and now we will begin to tease out the results over the next week.

Firstly, we have the demographics that paint a picture of the MyGaming readers and survey participants.

A note on the survey sample: with a sample size of 1,136 we can target a statistical confidence level of 99%, with a confidence interval of 3.83 on a 50% dichotomous response result.

Of course it is necessary to bear in mind the audience, which will comprise largely of MyGaming and MyBroadband readers, and nature of the survey – therefore tech-savvy individuals with access to the Internet will make up our respondents.

Since this is a broad descriptor of the nature of a modern online gamer, we think it’s fair to say this survey represents the high-end segment of the South African gaming market.

Gender

Male: 95.95%
Female: 4.05%

Age

Youngest: 11
Average: 29.44
Oldest: 83

Looking at the spread, most respondents fell between 24 and 33 years of age.

Virginity status

A question that caused a hubbub among some readers and participants was “Are you a virgin?” Our motivation for asking this was questioned, and simply put, we wanted to provide a data point to counter the common aspersion that all gamers are basement-dwelling virgins.

Here are the results of the question “Are you a virgin?”:

Yes: 18.22%
No: 81.78%

Of the 1,107 respondents over the age of 18 asked “Are you a virgin?”:

Yes: 16.17%
No: 83.83%

Relationship status

Single: 36.80%
In a relationship: 31.87%
Married: 30.02%
Divorced: 1.32%

Where do MyGaming readers come from?

Johannesburg: 29.84%
Cape Town: 24.65%
Pretoria: 18.22%
Durban: 6.43%
Other Gauteng: 3.61%
Port Elizabeth: 3.35%
Other Western Cape: 2.90%
Other KZN: 1.76%
North West: 1.41%
Bloemfontein: 1.23%
Do not reside in South Africa: 1.14%
Other Free State: 1.14%
Mpumalanga: 0.97%
East London: 0.79%
Limpopo: 0.79%
Northen Cape: 0.70%
Pietermaritzburg: 0.70%
Other Eastern Cape: 0.35%

HOESÊ?!

We asked survey participants to indicate the primary language spoken in their household.

English: 58.54%
Afrikaans: 38.29%
Other: 0.79%
isiZulu: 0.44%
Setswana: 0.44%
Sesotho: 0.35%
Tshivenda: 0.35%
Xitsonga: 0.35%
isiXhosa: 0.26%
Sesotho sa Leboa: 0.18%
isiNdebele: 0.00%
siSwati: 0.00%

So there you have it for the demographics results. This will be a base article for the upcoming reveals of other lifestyle habits, such as spending and consumption of games, booze, smokes, and fast food.