How Old Are You?

[Eric Tipton]

Greetings!

A simple question to find out some demographic info about our hobby. What is your age? No worries. This is an anonymous poll. Let's see some large voter turnout on this one. We are building market research from various poll questions that will be published in an upcoming article. So, how old are you?

[Tyler Underwood]

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Outstanding idea ET!

[Elaine Kessinger]

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I suppose you'd not like "fun" answers like: Old enough to know better, still too young to care?

[Dbackfed]

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Throw this on the Facebook page and you'll increase the response I think. These numbers don't even reflect a small EFUBU event.

[LibertyHallVols]

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I notice that the current "spikes" in the population are folks in their early 30's and in their early 50's. I think this may show the effect that the hobby has on parents...

Early 30's... folks with no kids, or young kids.
Early 50's... newly minted "empty nesters" who can dedicate more time and effort to the hobby.

Folks between those two ages are growing their careers, as well as raising children who are involved in an increasing number of activities (sports, scouting, clubs, "social" (for the southern folks)) that virtually eliminate parents' free time...
...and disposable income!

It will be interesting to see if this trend persists as the number of poll participants increases.

[Eric Tipton]

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Throw this on the Facebook page and you'll increase the response I think. These numbers don't even reflect a small EFUBU event.

Jason, yep, it was posted on FB as soon as the poll went up over the weekend. Pinned it to the top of our page this morning. We would like to get a lot more votes to give us a better sample. Keep them coming! Only takes a minute to log in and vote. We can talk all day long on social media whether the hobby is growing or dying or we can all participate and look for some answers.

[Pennvolunteer]

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My role model....

[Dbackfed]

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Jason, yep, it was posted on FB as soon as the poll went up over the weekend. Pinned it to the top of our page this morning. We would like to get a lot more votes to give us a better sample. Keep them coming! Only takes a minute to log in and vote. We can talk all day long on social media whether the hobby is growing or dying or we can all participate and look for some answers.

Eric, Facebook is actually how I saw to log in here ;-)

[Jmcook]

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Greetings!

A simple question to find out some demographic info about our hobby. What is your age? No worries. This is an anonymous poll. Let's see some large voter turnout on this one. We are building market research from various poll questions that will be published in an upcoming article. So, how old are you?

My father began reenacting when I was 3. I am now 33 years old. My father is 61.

[mike_zulu]

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Just voted thank you gentlemen

[Eric Tipton]

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Up to 176 votes. Thank you to everyone who has participated so far. Want to see a good sample for an authentic event? Let's get to at least 200.

[Eric Tipton]

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Up to 190! C'mon now, ten more!

[Craig L Barry]

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It is surprising to me actually how it is spread out statistically among the various age groups. Even allowing for "small sample size" this suggests a broader base of appeal than I thought. I am more surprised that the under 25 demographic isn't fuller, too. I guess they have the time but not the money or interest?

[Dale Beasley]

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Too old for long road marches!

[jm951]

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Being way too close to 60 for comfort, I'm not so sure that I could do another soldier impression. It's not because of the marching and physical stuff because I'm in far better condition than most 30yo but rather just how many combatants were of my age in the War? I'm thinking of some type of other impression, civilian or other part of the military where age wouldn't have been a barrier or liability.