What are people's basic characteristics?

The Demographics Survey (DS) is a 4-question measure of people’s basic characteristics. The questions measure five variables including age, gender, additional gender responses, race/ethnicity, and country of origin. This survey can be used to explore relationships between demographics and variables like risk-taking tendencies, social connection, or mental health. Past research suggests that people who identify as women tended to experience greater social connection than those that identified as men (Umberson et al., 2022).


Resources:

• Umberson, D., Lin, Z., & Cha, H. (2022). Gender and social isolation across the life course. Journal of health and social behavior, 63(3), 319-335.

Parameters

• This survey cannot be tweaked.

Disclaimer
Any languages that are currently offered besides English for this survey are not necessarily validated translations. This survey was translated using Google Translate and verified by members of the community.

What data is collected? How is it scored?
The following variables are recorded:

• Demographic_age: Higher scores mean participants are older.
• Demographic_gender: Shows whether participants identify as man, woman, non-binary, transgender, other, or prefer not to say.
• Demographic_other_gender: Shows any text participants typed into the "other" box.
• Demographic_race_ethnicity: Shows which race/ethnicity participants choose (participants can choose all of the options that apply to them).
• Demographic_country: Shows participants’ country of origin.

Raw data: 4 questions broken into 5 variables (age, gender, additional gender responses, race/ethnicity, and country of origin).

Calculation:
See the variable descriptions above for more information.