Who are Ravelry's users?

Jess and I just got back from TNNA and I really wanted to post the results from the survey that I did before we left. I apologize for the lackluster presentation - I didn't want to delay any longer. Someone asked about the ages of Ravelry users in the forums and we thought that it would be fun to do a quick survey. BIG Thanks to all of the 11,000ish people that answered the survey. It is important to note that this data comes from the survey responses of roughly 25% of Ravelry's active users. Edited to add the answers to the Monty Python question. Also, Ravelers who are reading this inside Ravelry - you can comment on this post by stopping by our blog. Here we go:

ages

Average age: 37
Median age: 35
< 20: 2%
20-29: 29%
30-39: 32%
40-49: 21%
50-59: 13%
60-69: 3%
70 and above: <1%

We have many wonderful users above the age of 75 but my graph didn't show ages with only 1 respondent...

knitting or crochet?

Crocheters are in the minority but their numbers are increasing.

years of experience

I've got more information (going back to 1 user who began in 1933) but I wanted to quickly share some interesting data about users who began to knit and crochet during the last few years. The question that we asked was: