Thought you all might find this interesting.  It's about six years out of date (created 3/99), but it gives you the general idea.  I obtained this when I was looking into putting an Acaeum ad into issue #300 (which I did).

GENDER
Male…………………………..…………..94%
Female……………………….…..………06%

MARITAL STATUS
Single…………………………….……....62%
Married……………………………..…...37%

AGE
Under 15……………..………....….…01%
15-24………………….…………………..22%
25-34………..……..……...……....….54%
35-44……………….……….…...……..16%
45 and over……………….......…...07%
MEDIAN AGE                   30

OCCUPATION
Student………………….………………..22%
Professional/Managerial…...……41%
Service/Skilled…………………..…..18%
Sales/Clerical……………………....…07%
Not Employed……………………..…..03%
Other………………………..……………..11%

EDUCATION
Some High School……………………10%
Graduated High School…....…...10%
Some College……………………......30%
Vocational/Technical………....…..07%
College- 4 Year Degree…….….…28%
Post Graduate………………....…....15%

INCOME
Less than $15,000……………….....12%
$15,001-24,999…………………......13%
$25,000-34,999…………………...….18%
$35,000-49,999………………….…...19%
$50,000-74,999…………….……..….19%
$75,000 and above……………...….15%
MEDIAN INCOME                    $46,600

deimos3428 wrote:Very interesting stuff.  I find myself wondering which of those %s would have changed in the last 6 years, and in which directions...all except for gender have changed for me.  

lol.. me too...

Howdy,

FoulFoot wrote:GENDER
Male…………………………..…………..94%
Female……………………….…..………06%

Ah yes, now we see why they went to the female pronoun in the 3e books! Obviously there would be more female custom-, er, players if the pronouns weren't so sexist.  


Futures Bright,

Paul

I would say the attendance at the Gencon runs around a max of 4% female (while Origins is probably around 1%, at best). And that would include nonplaying girlfriends or wives and dealer employees and/or relatives. And they used to have that stupid Sci-Fi Saturday thing when all the Trekkies showed up - many more females per capita in that group.

That 6% seemed kind of high to me, but I do not know how many respondents they had. Females might be more likely to respond, and if the overall total was low, we get a final percentage that may not be completely accurate. That would also account for the fairly even salary totals. It should not be so eveny distributed.

I can say with a fair amount of certainty they had a low poll turnout.

I also have to agree about the female genderization of the game. It is flat out stupid. I never played a female character. Never. And I never will. I will leave that to those who feel they need to, for whatever reason.

bbarsh wrote:I never played a female character. Never. And I never will. I will leave that to those who feel they need to, for whatever reason.

We tried this at one point, and quickly determined that none of us could convincingly play a female character.  The house rule became that you could only play your own gender (at some point we had a few female players, they somehow managed just fine).

From a reseller's point of view: I don't any hard numbers, but I would estimate that at least 8-10% of my Dungeons & Dragons sales go to females.

Assuming you're speaking of online sales (I'm not aware if you have a ground location), I wonder how many of those are sons asking Mom to use her credit card...?

Well, FWIW, recent ad demographics info for all of Paizo's books are available at paizo.com - Paizo Publishing

No, I have not been to one in three years now.

20%      

That would mean about 4,000 females at the con???

Like, I said, I have not been in awhile, but those numbers sure seem odd.