by Julie Bort

Demographics of Top Concerns survey respondents

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Jul 21, 20031 min

As the following charts denote, the 100 IT professionals who participated in our annual Top Concerns survey come from a cross section of industries, but are all from enterprise-sized organizations and manage employees.

All respondents have direct IT responsibilities, with titles in the IT field or upper management.

Title	% of respondents
MIS/IS/IT/DP manager or director	29%
LAN, WAN or network manager or director	15%
Network architect, operator, database designer, operations staff	15%
EO, COO, CFO, president, VP operations	12%
Telecom or engineering manager or director	10%
CIO/CTO/Senior VP or VP MIS/IT/IS	8%
Software programmer, trainer, help desk, tech support	8%
Internet/intranet/e-commerce manager or director	3%

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	Survey demographics

Respondents come from a variety of industries.

Industry	% of respondents
Manufacturing	29%
Government	12%
Education	9%
Healthcare services	11%
Insurance/real estate/legal	7%
Finance/banking	6%
Utilities/process engineering	5%
Retail/wholesale trade	6%
Media/TV/cable/print/radio	4%
Aerospace	2%
Transportation	3%
Hospitality/entertainment/recreation	4%
Military	1%
Other	1%

All respondents are from enterprise-size companies, by revenue and employees.

	Mean	Median
Number of employees throughout company	8,972	5,333
Corporate revenue	$41.9 million	$4.6 million

by Julie Bort

Julie is also author of Building an Extranet (Wiley, 1997).

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