what kiwis die of - part ii: the battle of the sexes survey
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In January 2013 we asked New Zealanders for there thoughts on gender differences between causes of death.TRANSCRIPT
What Kiwis* die of - Part II:‘The battle of the sexes’ survey.
*The inhabitants of New Zealand rather than the flightless bird….
This survey was inspired by the Guardian newspaper’s infographic ‘What we die of’ and is a collaboration between microbiologist Dr Siouxsie Wiles, chief number cruncher Dr Paul Gardner and data visualisation extraordinaire Dr Mike Dickison.
Paul (@ppgardne) is a Royal Society of NZ Rutherford Discovery Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Bioinformatics at the University of Canterbury's School of Biological Sciences. He gets very excited about RNA. Mike (@adzebill) is a freelance information designer with a PhD on the evolution of giant flightless birds. He quite likes ukuleles too. Siouxsie (@SiouxsieW) is a Health Research Council of NZ Hercus Fellow at the University of Auckland’s Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences. She is rather keen on nasty bacteria and anything that glows in the dark.
The survey
On the 31st January 2013 we used Twitter, Facebook and email to entice over 100 people to fill out our survey
(http://t.co/Wd5di4MG) using the SurveyMonkey website.
Like all online surveys, ours should not be considered representative of the population of New Zealand, but rather
of people on social media who were happy to fill out our survey.
Almost 30,000 people die in New Zealand each year. We are interested to know whether you think there are any differences between what men and women die of.
Please don’t cheat and google any of the answers, we want to know what you THINK the answer is! All will be revealed on http://sciblogs.co.nz/infectious-thoughts/ on Friday 1st Feb.Thanks for taking part!
Siouxsie (@SiouxsieW), Mike (@adzebill) & Paul (@ppgardne)
Q1. Do you think there are any differences between the numbers of men and women dying in NZ?
(110 responses, 0 skipped Q)
Roughly the same
% o
f re
spo
nd
ants
More menthan women
More womenthan men
14,615 men14,589 women
Q2. Compared to women, how many men get breast cancer?
% o
f re
spo
nd
ants
None 1:10 1:50
658 women & 7 men
1:100 1:500
Q3. Do you think there are differences between the numbers of men and women dying of strokes and brain haemorrhages?
(110 responses, 0 skipped Q)
No difference
% o
f re
spo
nd
ants
More menthan women
More womenthan men
937 men1551 women
Q4. Do you think there are differences between the numbers of men and women dying of diabetes?
(107 responses, 3 skipped Q)
No difference
% o
f re
spo
nd
ants
More menthan women
More womenthan men
482 men387 women
Q5. Do you think there are differences between the numbers of men and women committing suicide?
(109 responses, 1 skipped Q)
No difference
% o
f re
spo
nd
ants
More menthan women
More womenthan men
393 men117 women
Q6. Do you think there are differences between the numbers of men and women killed in traffic accidents?
(110 responses, 0 skipped Q)
No difference
% o
f re
spo
nd
ants
More menthan women
More womenthan men
336 men138 women
Q7. Do you think there are differences between the numbers of men and women dying of melanoma?
(110 responses, 0 skipped Q)
No difference
% o
f re
spo
nd
ants
More menthan women
More womenthan men
290 men155 women
Q8. Are you male or female? N
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Q9. How old are you?
Age
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