Some Uk Stats

[+kbootb]

I can't remember why, but some time ago someone asked about the rise of caching in the uk.

 

I have used the date of each cachers first find to calculate the following.

Sorry the formatting is 'odd' but the forum software looks like it accepts TAB when pasting in from excel, but when viewing it these are stripped out, so I had to manually lay it out with dots.

 

month.......2001.........2002.........2003.........2004.........2005.........2006.........Grand Total

Jan...........2...............63............182...........241..........410...........605...........1503

Feb...........4...............73............146...........234..........557...........495...........1509

Mar...........6...............76............180...........261...........585...........458...........1566

Apr...........3...............79............162...........349...........475...........863..........1931

May...........6..............64............173...........325...........511...........182...........1261

Jun...........14.............86............184...........261..........424............................969

Jul............11.............75............187...........322...........572...........................1167

Aug...........47............112...........233...........357...........615...........................1364

Sep...........61.............99............226...........277...........424...........................1087

Oct...........50.............84............159...........309...........643...........................1245

Nov...........47.............62............136...........254...........346...........................845

Dec..........46.............58............199...........282...........428...........................1013

Total.........297..........931...........2167.........3472.........5990.........2603.........15460

 

Quick interpretation to help you round the table.

 

297 people joined in 2001,

5900 people joined in 2005

The month with the most joiners is April 06 with 863

 

(May 06 is only 182 as I grabbed this data about a week ago)

[+The Southseakers]

Interesting stats. The population growth seems roughly linear over each year (exlcuding the first) with a step change in gradient occuring at December/January/Feb - does this simply refelect the number of people who got a GPSr for christmas?

 

2002: roughly 80 per month

2003: roughly 180 per month

2004: roughly 300 per month

2005: roughly 500 per month

2006: ???

 

The rate of growth seems to be roughly doubling every twelve months - so at this rate the entire UK population will be cachers in the next 10 years

 

Another interesting set of stats would be the number of active cachers over time (i.e. the number of cachers who logged a find in the last 4 weeks)

[+davy boy]

I wonder how many are premium members? At $30 a time can't be bad!!!!!!

[barryhunter]

Another interesting set of stats would be the number of active cachers over time (i.e. the number of cachers who logged a find in the last 4 weeks)

 

this page in cachetools almost tells you that, (the number of cachers logging at least one cache by month)

[Deego]

Wow 2 caches found in 1996

 

Somebody has a time machine

[barryhunter]

someone playing silly b******s

 

This just demonstrates that you can choose ANY date you like when posting a log on a cache. This was written at 15:05 GMT, 14 Feb 2006

[+Teasel]

someone playing silly b******s

 

This just demonstrates that you can choose ANY date you like when posting a log on a cache. This was written at 15:05 GMT, 14 Feb 2006

Same goes for placed dates, I think. I once thought of placing "Shakespeare's first geocache", with a placed date somewhere in the 1600's, but then thought better of it!