TABLE II: 'SIGNIFICANT OTHERS' BY SEX
"One comes for social reasons, not for hiking.
We see here that DPS men more frequently have significant others. The age cohorts proved interesting here too: 100% of the 20's (one) is without someone, as are 44% of those in their 30's and 36% of those in their 50's. Only 17% of those in their 40's lack someone and all of those in their 60's have someone, although 43% of them never come on trips!
A final remark on the age cohorts before turning to hiking. The 30 and 40 year olds had some special characteristics. It was the 30 year olds who led in not coming to meetings (80% of those respondents), followed by 40 year olds (74% of them). People In their 20's and 50's were the most enthusiastic attenders (100% and 64% respectively). While the 30 years olds were the only group with more opponents than supporters of the peak list going over 99 (laziness? manageable ambitions?), it was the 40 year olds who supplied all four opponents of the Road and Peaks Guide (21% of their age cohort - mid-life crisis of some sort?).
Returning to the subject of hiking, we find that our respondents include many new members - about half started hiking before 1980 and half from 1980 on. We have retained more male members from earlier years: 5 men and 1 woman started hiking before 1968 and are still with us; another 15 men and I woman started between 1968 and 1978; 23 men and 14 women began hiking from 1978 on.
The number of peaks respondents had at the time of the survey was impressive. The median was 50 - about half had 50 or less, half had 51 or more. It is the women who are pulling that median up, 67% of the women have over 50 but only 47% of the men do.
While 72% of all respondents were emblem holders, there was a difference by sex. 67% (29) of the men and 75% (12) of the women respondents were emblem holders. Half the respondents had obtained their emblems before 1982 and half from 1982 on. 23% (14) of the respondents were list finishers, 11 men and 3 women; 7 finished in the 80's, 6 in the 70's, 1 in the 60's. Here there was a wide range of years to finish, with the three women taking from 9 to 27 years to finish and the men from 3 to 20 years to finish the list. Computing the years to emblem and finishing by sex gave the table below, which shows that women respondents got the emblem faster but took longer to finish the list, on average.
| TABLE III; YEARS TO EMBLEM AND LIST FINISHING | TABLE IV: EDUCATIONAL LEVEL BY SEX |
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*7 of the 42 emblem holders did not give dates.
Finally, a table on education by sex above which shows that our respondents are a highly educated group (47% have graduate or professional degrees).