In April 2015, Walt Hickey at 538.com published an article entitled "Where People Go To Check The Weather". This article utilized survey data collected from 928 people which asked questions on if they typically check the weather on a daily basis and if so, what source they used to check the weather. Additional follow-up questions were asked about which specific websites or apps they used and if they had a smartwatch if they would check the weather on that smartwatch.
Friday, November 17, 2017
Background
Purpose
The "weather check" dataset that was used for the "Where People Go To Check The Weather" article, is available through the R package fivethirtyeight. Using this dataset, this article summarizes the weather source preferences for the Mountain Region of the United States by gender.
For our summary presented here, a subset of the original weather check dataset was extracted to only include responses with no missing data and only included respondents from the Mountain region of the US. The data subset used for our summary had 72 respondents.
Demographics of Survey Respondents in a Merged Table
This section provides demographic summary tables for the 72 survey respondents.
| Category | % | Category | % | Category | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 - 29 | 16.67 | FALSE | 38.89 | $0 to $9,999 | 4.17 |
| $200,000 and up | 6.94 | ||||
| Prefer not to answer | 18.06 | ||||
| 30 - 44 | 19.44 | TRUE | 61.11 | $10,000 to $24,999 | 13.89 |
| 45 - 59 | 30.56 | $25,000 to $49,999 | 12.50 | ||
| 60+ | 33.33 | $50,000 to $74,999 | 18.06 | ||
| $75,000 to $99,999 | 11.11 | ||||
| $100,000 to $124,999 | 6.94 | ||||
| $125,000 to $149,999 | 6.94 | ||||
| $150,000 to $174,999 | 1.39 | ||||
| $175,000 to $199,999 | 0.00 |
Weather Source Preference by Gender
Finally, here is a breakdown of the 72 survey respondents for the Mountain region of the US on how they check their daily weather by gender.
