Poll on age at time of purchase.

[ds251]

This poll was inspired by a post I saw in this forum.

 

[imgoingtodisney]

I got the letter my financing was approved on my 44th birthday!

 

[Regina]

Very interesting results so far.

We laughed when we did the math and realized that we would be in our 80's when the membership expires.

It looks like there will be quite a few of us senior members.

You youngun's better show us some respect!!

 

[dianeschlicht]

The reason for the bulge in that part of the curve is because of sheer numbers! We are, after all, still the "baby boomers". We create a bulge wherever we go! HMMM, maybe we are a bulge too!

 

[Granny]

Originally posted by dianeschlicht
The reason for the bulge in that part of the curve is because of sheer numbers! We are, after all, still the "baby boomers". We create a bulge wherever we go! HMMM, maybe we are a bulge too!

I'm always fighting the Battle of the Bulge!

And I can't tell you how jealous I am of those lucky ones who are able to buy DVC in their 20's! How cool is that?

 

[Lesley]

Granny, its very cool! Of course I'll only be getting one trip in while I'm still in my 20's...

And don't be jealous...I'm jealous of those of you who were able to join in the early 90's! We first found out about it in 1994 and there was just no way we could do it then.....just out of college with a baby on the way. We joined as soon as we could...which wasn't until last year. We waited a long time...and we're still waiting for our first trip home.

65 more days!

 

[Caskbill]

Diane, I know what you mean, but unfortunately statistically you can't actually say the bulge represents the baby boomers. This is because the poll asks when you first bought. This would include all dates from 1991 through 2001, a ten year stretch. Thus for every age posted, their current age is that age + anything up to an additional 10 years.

In my case when we bought I was in the 46-50 group, but now I'm closer to 60. I was born before the baby boomers (officially), even though my vote contributed to the 'bulge' in the data.

One thing you can probably safely deduce (based on incomes, etc), is that the 20 somethings year old group did <u>not</u> in general, purchase in 1991. Because of this, the data has a natural bias toward the middle age years.

Isn't statistics fun?

There are some conclusions one could probably deduce. If you compared this distribution to an age vs. income distribution, and an age vs. children (and children't ages) you would probably find most purchased about the time their disposable income had risen to a certain point, and perhaps also that their children were still at home and at an age where they would be doing Disney as a family for several years to come.

Since I haven't actually compared the above distributions, the above 'conclusions' are actually an estimated opinion.

In any case, when we bought it was with almost 50 years of Disney before us. And at this point we've still got 40 more to go.

 

[GrammieMame]

I bought for my children & grandchildren. I love the thought that my great-grandchildren will be staying at WLV and their parents will be telling them what fun they used to have there with their Grammie. I'm planning on a 100th birthday celebration at WDW, although I may have to forego R&R Coaster.

 

[GoofyDude]

I think it might be interesting to see what percentages are single vs. married, too! I was (and still am, BTW) single when I bought into DVC. Just kinda curious how many others out there were when they bought in.