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1. Your country (select one from the menu)
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Percent		Response
Count
Afghanistan 0.0%0
Albania 0.0%0
Algeria 0.0%0
American Samoa 0.0%0
Andorra 0.0%0
Angola 0.0%0
Anguilla 0.0%0
Antarctica 0.0%0
Antigua and Barbuda 0.0%0
Argentina 0.0%0
Armenia 0.0%0
Aruba
0.1%1
Australia
16.9%270
Austria
0.2%3
Azerbaijan 0.0%0
Bahamas
0.1%1
Bahrain 0.0%0
Bangladesh
0.1%1
Barbados
0.1%2
Belarus 0.0%0
Belgium
0.7%11
Belize 0.0%0
Benin 0.0%0
Bermuda
0.1%1
Bhutan 0.0%0
Bolivia 0.0%0
Bosnia and Herzegowina 0.0%0
Botswana
0.1%1
Bouvet Island 0.0%0
Brazil 0.0%0
British Indian Ocean Territory 0.0%0
British Virgin Islands 0.0%0
Brunei Darussalam 0.0%0
Bulgaria 0.0%0
Burkina Faso 0.0%0
Burma 0.0%0
Burundi 0.0%0
Cambodia 0.0%0
Cameroon
0.1%1
Canada
20.9%333
Cape Verde 0.0%0
Cayman Islands
0.1%1
Central African Republic 0.0%0
Chad 0.0%0
Chile
0.1%1
China
0.1%1
Christmas Island 0.0%0
Cocos (Keeling) Islands 0.0%0
Colombia 0.0%0
Comoros 0.0%0
Congo-Brazzaville 0.0%0
Congo-Kinshasa 0.0%0
Cook Islands 0.0%0
Costa Rica 0.0%0
Cote Divoire 0.0%0
Croatia 0.0%0
Cuba 0.0%0
Curacao
0.1%1
Cyprus 0.0%0
Czech Republic
0.1%1
Denmark
0.4%6
Djibouti 0.0%0
Dominica 0.0%0
Dominican Republic 0.0%0
East Timor 0.0%0
Ecuador 0.0%0
Egypt 0.0%0
El Salvador 0.0%0
Equatorial Guinea 0.0%0
Eritrea 0.0%0
Estonia
0.1%2
Ethiopia 0.0%0
Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 0.0%0
Faroe Islands 0.0%0
Fiji
0.1%1
Finland
0.4%7
France
0.5%8
French Guiana 0.0%0
French Polynesia 0.0%0
French Southern Territories 0.0%0
Gabon 0.0%0
Gambia 0.0%0
Georgia 0.0%0
Germany
0.7%11
Ghana 0.0%0
Gibraltar 0.0%0
Greece 0.0%0
Greenland 0.0%0
Grenada 0.0%0
Guadeloupe 0.0%0
Guam
0.1%1
Guatemala 0.0%0
Guinea 0.0%0
Guinea-Bissau 0.0%0
Guyana 0.0%0
Haiti 0.0%0
Heard and Mc Donald Islands 0.0%0
Honduras 0.0%0
Hong Kong 0.0%0
Hungary
0.1%1
Iceland 0.0%0
India
0.3%4
Indonesia 0.0%0
Iran
0.3%4
Iraq
0.1%1
Ireland
3.0%48
Israel
0.1%2
Italy
0.2%3
Jamaica
0.1%1
Japan
0.3%5
Jordan 0.0%0
Kazakhstan 0.0%0
Kenya
0.1%2
Kiribati 0.0%0
Korea
0.1%2
Kosovo 0.0%0
Kuwait 0.0%0
Kyrgyzstan 0.0%0
Laos 0.0%0
Latvia 0.0%0
Lebanon 0.0%0
Lesotho 0.0%0
Liberia 0.0%0
Libya 0.0%0
Liechtenstein 0.0%0
Lithuania 0.0%0
Luxembourg 0.0%0
Macau 0.0%0
Macedonia 0.0%0
Madagascar 0.0%0
Malawi 0.0%0
Malaysia
0.1%1
Maldives 0.0%0
Mali 0.0%0
Malta
0.1%2
Marshall Islands 0.0%0
Martinique 0.0%0
Mauritania 0.0%0
Mauritius 0.0%0
Mayotte 0.0%0
Mexico 0.0%0
Micronesia 0.0%0
Moldova 0.0%0
Monaco 0.0%0
Mongolia 0.0%0
Montenegro 0.0%0
Montserrat 0.0%0
Morocco 0.0%0
Mozambique 0.0%0
Namibia 0.0%0
Nauru 0.0%0
Nepal
0.2%3
Netherlands
1.3%21
New Caledonia 0.0%0
New Zealand
4.0%63
Nicaragua 0.0%0
Niger 0.0%0
Nigeria
0.1%1
Niue 0.0%0
Norfolk Island 0.0%0
Northern Mariana Islands 0.0%0
Norway
1.6%26
Oman 0.0%0
Pakistan
0.1%2
Palau 0.0%0
Palestine 0.0%0
Panama 0.0%0
Papua New Guinea 0.0%0
Paraguay 0.0%0
Peru 0.0%0
Philippines
0.1%2
Pitcairn 0.0%0
Poland 0.0%0
Portugal
0.1%1
Puerto Rico 0.0%0
Qatar 0.0%0
Reunion 0.0%0
Romania 0.0%0
Russia
0.2%3
Rwanda 0.0%0
Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.0%0
Saint Lucia 0.0%0
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.0%0
Samoa 0.0%0
San Marino 0.0%0
Sao Tome and Principe 0.0%0
Saudi Arabia 0.0%0
Senegal 0.0%0
Serbia 0.0%0
Serbia and Montenegro
0.1%1
Seychelles 0.0%0
Sierra Leone 0.0%0
Singapore
0.1%1
Slovakia 0.0%0
Slovenia 0.0%0
Solomon Islands 0.0%0
Somalia 0.0%0
South Africa
0.4%7
South Georgia 0.0%0
Spain
0.8%12
Sri Lanka
0.1%1
St. Helena 0.0%0
St. Maarten 0.0%0
St. Pierre and Miquelon 0.0%0
Sudan 0.0%0
Suriname 0.0%0
Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands 0.0%0
Swaziland 0.0%0
Sweden
1.5%24
Switzerland
0.5%8
Syria 0.0%0
Taiwan 0.0%0
Tajikistan 0.0%0
Tanzania
0.1%1
Thailand
0.1%1
Tibet 0.0%0
Togo 0.0%0
Tokelau 0.0%0
Tonga 0.0%0
Trinidad and Tobago
0.1%1
Tunisia 0.0%0
Turkey
0.3%5
Turkmenistan 0.0%0
Turks and Caicos Islands 0.0%0
Tuvalu 0.0%0
Uganda 0.0%0
Ukraine 0.0%0
United Arab Emirates 0.0%0
United Kingdom
22.6%360
United States of America
19.1%305
Uruguay 0.0%0
Uzbekistan
0.1%1
Vanuatu 0.0%0
Vatican City 0.0%0
Venezuela
0.1%1
Vietnam 0.0%0
Virgin Islands (British) 0.0%0
Virgin Islands (U.S.) 0.0%0
Wallis and Futuna Islands 0.0%0
Western Sahara 0.0%0
Yemen 0.0%0
Zambia 0.0%0
Zimbabwe 0.0%0

2. Which languages do you understand?
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Percent		Response
Count
English
98.3%1,551
Arabic
0.8%12
Bengali
0.4%6
Bulgarian 0.0%0
Burmese 0.0%0
Catalan
0.6%10
Chinese
0.4%6
Creole
0.1%1
Croatian
0.1%2
Czech
0.1%2
Danish
2.6%41
Dutch
2.9%46
Esperanto
0.3%4
Finnish
0.9%14
French
17.2%272
German
8.4%133
Greek
0.2%3
Gujarati
0.2%3
Hebrew
0.5%8
Hindi
0.6%9
Hungarian
0.3%5
Icelandic
0.1%1
Indonesian
0.4%6
Italian
2.8%44
Japanese
0.8%12
Javanese 0.0%0
Korean
0.2%3
Malay
0.3%4
Malayalam
0.1%1
Mandarin
0.3%4
Marathi
0.1%1
Norwegian
2.9%45
Persian
0.4%7
Polish
0.5%8
Portuguese
1.6%26
Romanian
0.1%1
Russian
1.2%19
Serbian
0.3%5
Setswana 0.0%0
Slovak
0.1%1
Spanish
10.2%161
Swedish
3.7%58
Tamil
0.2%3
Telugu 0.0%0
Thai
0.1%2
Turkish
0.6%10
Ukrainian
0.1%1
Urdu
0.4%6
Vietnamese
0.1%2
Other (please specify)
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3. Do you have an account on Twitter?
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Percent		Response
Count
Yes
31.1%496
No
67.0%1,068
I don't know
1.8%29

4. Do you post tweets (messages sent via Twitter) yourself?
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Percent		Response
Count
Often
9.1%139
Sometimes
15.4%234
Never
75.5%1,151

5. If you do tweet, are your tweets about trade union matters?
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Percent		Response
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Often
9.4%99
Sometimes
17.8%188
Never
72.8%769
Tell us what you tweet about
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6. If you do send out union-related tweets,have you joined the Union Twibe (http://www.twibes.com/group/union)?
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Percent		Response
Count
Yes
3.5%40
Never heard of it before, but will join now
24.8%285
No
71.7%822

7. Do you re-tweet (forward on other people's Twitter messages)?
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Percent		Response
Count
Often
5.1%62
Sometimes
14.4%173
Never
80.5%970

8. If you do re-tweet, do you do this for LabourStart's tweets?
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Percent		Response
Count
Often
1.8%19
Sometimes
10.6%113
Never
87.6%932

9. Does your union use Twitter?
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Percent		Response
Count
Yes
14.8%221
No
29.2%436
I don't know
56.0%837
If yes, please tell us more
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10. What other social networks do you use for trade union purposes?
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Percent		Response
Count
Bebo
1.3%12
Delicious
2.6%25
Digg
2.2%21
Facebook
75.7%720
Flickr
11.7%111
My Space
5.7%54
Second Life
1.6%15
UnionBook
18.1%172
You Tube
37.1%353
Other (please specify)
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15.9%151

11. Finally, what's your view? Tell us your thoughts about trade unions and Twitter.
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