Demographics – Geography
Where in the world are you involved in ESL/EFL education?
Again, 11% of respondents declined to indicate their geographic location. That 1/8th of respondents are consistently not answering could indicate a secret cadre of nonconformists in our midst. Watch your back! And your front.
Unsurprisingly, the largest contingent of respondents, 32%, hails from Asia with 11% positioned in China alone. A nearly equal number, 31%, of respondents hail from the English-speaking part of North America, possibly indicating a skew to the data resulting from the kinds of North American-based journals, periodicals and Internet resources which passed on word of the survey to their interest groups.
Europe-centered professionals accounted for nine percent while those in Mexico and Latin America accounted for just six percent of respondents. Africa was almost a no-show while the Middle East and Anza made a showing of seven percent and four percent respectively.
Canada |
40
|
7.86%
|
USA |
117
|
22.99%
|
Mexico |
18
|
3.54%
|
Central/South America |
12
|
2.36%
|
Europe |
35
|
6.88%
|
UK |
6
|
1.18%
|
Russia |
5
|
0.98%
|
Indochina |
31
|
6.09%
|
China |
53
|
10.41%
|
Japan |
34
|
6.68%
|
Korea |
26
|
5.11%
|
Other Asia |
18
|
3.54%
|
Middle East |
37
|
7.27%
|
Africa |
1
|
0.20%
|
Australia/New Zealand |
22
|
4.32%
|
Other |
5
|
0.98%
|
No answer |
49
|
9.63%
|
Total |
509
|
100.00%
|