MoneySaving Poll: Our Annual Census

deepdale56 · 6 August 2015 at 7:26AM

Because the populations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are no bigger than most England regions.

Angry_Bear · 6 August 2015 at 4:01PM

Flick216 wrote: »

Couldn't find last year's!

But even so - why is it mostly white people who use the site? It just doesn't seem representative of the population.

Just curious, without googling, what proportion of the population do you expect is not "white British"?

Flick216 · 6 August 2015 at 4:37PM

Angry_Bear wrote: »

Just curious, without googling, what proportion of the population do you expect is not "white British"?

Goodness - I don't actually know! I guess more than the 5% represented on last year's census?

Well 2011 put it at 87.7%

Angry_Bear · 6 August 2015 at 4:53PM

Flick216 wrote: »

Goodness - I don't actually know! I guess more than the 5% represented on last year's census?

Well 2011 put it at 87.7%

I'm guessing you meant that the "White British" bit was 87.7%

12.3% is still a statistically signifcant difference from the 5% using this site, I wonder why? (Not a rhetorical question, I genuinely wonder

).

Was surprised NI was as high as 96% "White British"!

wildthing01 · 6 August 2015 at 8:26PM

Given that the majority of respondents are white, straight, married Christians with kids and educated to at least A Level, do the MSE team have an action plan around making the site more accessible to other groups? The response patterm is clearly not representative of the UK population so I think the team need to address that. (And I'm speaking as someone in the majority!)

Ectophile · 6 August 2015 at 10:33PM

wildthing01 wrote: »

Given that the majority of respondents are white, straight, married Christians with kids and educated to at least A Level, do the MSE team have an action plan around making the site more accessible to other groups? The response patterm is clearly not representative of the UK population so I think the team need to address that. (And I'm speaking as someone in the majority!)

Why would they want to do that? Well-educated people with children sounds like a very good demographic for attracting companies to agree to affiliation deals.

If they are going to pay MSE for every new customer introduced via a link from MSE, the last people they want are poor people who aren't going to spend much.

Flick216 · 7 August 2015 at 1:50PM

Angry_Bear wrote: »

I'm guessing you meant that the "White British" bit was 87.7%

12.3% is still a statistically signifcant difference from the 5% using this site, I wonder why? (Not a rhetorical question, I genuinely wonder ).

Was surprised NI was as high as 96% "White British"!

Yes - sorry! I just realised what I did!

I wonder why too? Do they feel they do not need to use a money saving site? I'll be honest - I do not use the money saving part! I'm here just for The Arms :rotfl: