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Post date: Sep 22, 2020 5:14:15 AM
Here’s a statistic that may be interesting to some, as of today, 21 September 2020. Since NaHaiWriMo began in February of 2010 (yes, we’re celebrating our tenth anniversary this year), we’ve had 113 months of individual prompters, and three months of having a different prompter for each day of the month (pass-the-baton months). Not counting the pass-the-baton months, of those 113 other months, just 39 of those months have been prompted by males, or 34.5 percent. Many prompters have done the task more than once, so if we take out those duplications, only 19 of the 69 different individual prompters we’ve had have been male, or 27.5 percent. These percentages fall a little below the demographic statistics I can see for the NaHaiWriMo Facebook page as its administrator, which identifies site visitors as 63 percent female and 35 percent male (the remaining 2 percent being unknown or unspecified). We might wonder why haiku, or NaHaiWriMo, or perhaps the social media technology in this case, attracts nearly twice as many females as males, but I have no explanation for this.
As of today, we have 3,227 likes and 3,195 followers, although of course most people are not active, or at most are active only during our “official” month of February each year. Other Facebook statistics show that the biggest percentages of users are older, with the following specific stats:
Ages 13–17: 0.3 percent
Ages 18–24 2 percent
Ages 25–34 6 percent
Ages 35–44 9 percent
Ages 45–54 15 percent
Ages 55–64 15 percent
Ages 65+ 17 percent
The preceding percentages add up to only 64.3 percent, so the ages of the remaining 35.7 percent must be unknown or unspecified. The top countries, by number of fans on Facebook, are as follows:
United States of America 1,738 likes
Canada 221
United Kingdom 197
India 188
France 109
Australia 106
Bulgaria 44
Philippines 33
Italy 27
Japan 27
Indonesia 21
Bangladesh 21
Romania 21
New Zealand 21
Ireland 20
Malaysia 18
Sweden 17
Israel 16
Brazil 15
Germany 15
Netherlands 14
Pakistan 14
United Arab Emirates 14
Nigeria 14
Poland 13
Belgium 12
Trinidad and Tobago 12
Russia 10
Serbia 10
Saudi Arabia 10
Turkey 9
Argentina 9
Singapore 9
Mexico 8
Spain 8
South Africa 8
Algeria 7
Myanmar 7
Kenya 6
Iran 6
Hungary 6
Croatia 6
Switzerland 6
Iraq 6
Sri Lanka 6
(plus additional countries)
Some surprises for me are Bulgaria, Bangladesh, and the United Arab Emirates. The top ten cities, by number of fans on Facebook, are these:
New York, New York 51 likes
Seattle, Washington 47
Los Angeles, California 33
Toronto, Ontario 30
Vancouver, British Columbia 30
London, United Kingdom 27
Melbourne, Australia 24
Sofia, Bulgaria 24
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India 23
Delhi, India 23
For me, a surprise here is Sofia, Bulgaria. One other statistic is that NaHaiWriMo has grown every year since it began, more than ten years ago, but more important than statistics is the fact that the our purpose is to share, enjoy, and celebrate haiku.
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