Survey Results

I'm sure everyone is sick and tired of all the political polls - so what better time to present some of the results of the EWUG Conference Survey!

About 20% of the conference attendees filled out a survey (and I'm not going to compute the margin of error). So here are the results :

What ESRI technology attendees wanted to learn more about:

• 9.2 release - 73%
• ArcMap - 59%
• ArcServer - 34%
• ArcIMS - 29%
  
• ArcGIS Explorer - 20%
  

What applications of GIS attendees wanted to learn more about:

• General GIS - 59%
• Planning & Zoning - 37%
• Addressing - 32%
  
• GPS - 29%
• Cadastral - 27%
• Utilities - 24%
  
• Transportation - 24%

Other results:

• 97% found the conferences facilities as Good or Excellent
• Thursday (90%) is the most convenient day to have the conference, followed by Wednesday (76%), and tied with Tuesday and Friday (41%)
• 73% prefer to have fewer concurrent sessions and a longer conference length (2 tracks for 2 days) rather than having a more concurrent sessions and a shorter conference (4 tracks for 1 day)
• 71% of the attendees stayed at the conference hotel, of those who did not stay at the hotel, the majority went back home after the conference.
  
• 69% found the conference food as Good or Excellent
• 56% preferred complementary meals and food variety over lower conference registration costs
• 51% have attended a WLIA conference this year
• 34% have never attended an EWUG conference before
• 20% attended some other GIS conference this year besides WLIA (GITA, ESRI-UC, etc.)
  

We're still reading all the write-in comments, so these findings will be presented as they become available.

Have any suggestion for next year - let us know!