IJA
Membership Survey
We
are proud to present the results of our first IJA membership survey,
and thank Alan Howard and IJA secretary Rich Chamberlin for
compiling the data.
The
numbers given are the percentage of the entire sample that selected
that choice. Since every person did not answer every question, not
all percentages total 100. On other questions, people were asked to
select more than one choice, so the percentage total is more than
100.
Dominant
Hand Left 11.5%
Rt. 79.7%
Age
Under
10 .4% 10-20 13.5%
21-30 31.2% 31-40 37.5% 41-50 7.7% 51-60 3.1% Over 60 2.2%
Sex
- Male 81.4%
Female 15.4%
Occupation
Artist 3.9%; Clerical 2.6%;
Computers
7.8%; Entertainer 12.7%;
Engineer 6.0%; Journalism 2.1%; Laborer 2.3%; Management 5.3%;
Military 1.4%; Sales 4.2%; Student 19.5%;
Teacher
1
1.0%; Retired 2.3%.
Income
Under $10,000 22.4%;
10-20,000 18.7%; 20-30,000
18.7%; 30-40,000 13.2%; 40-50,000 6.6%; Over $50,000 8.4%.
Education,
finished...
High
School 30.8%; College
39.4%; Masters 15.6%; Doctoral 5.8%.
Juggling
Involvement
Amateur
60.4% Semi-pro 21.8% Pro 10.1%.
Years
Juggling 1-3 40.7%;
4-8 39.6%; 9-12 13.
1%; 13-20 5.4%; 21+ 2.9%.
|
Years
in IJA
Less
than 1 35.0%; 1-3 30.9%; 4-7 19.9%; 8-10 6.0%; 10-20 2.1%;
More than 20 0.8%.
|
|
IJA
Conventions attended
None
61.4%; 1- 21.2%; 2 - 7.8%; 3 - 5.4%; 4 - 2.9%; 5 -
2.4%; 6+ 1.6%.
|
|
Numbers
- Juggling Limit - Balls
3
- 23.1%; 4 - 40.2%; 5 - 27.6%; 6 - 5.9%; 7
- 3.6%; 8 - 0.8%; 9 - 0.2%
|
|
Rings
|
|
|
3
|
43.5%
|
|
4
|
23.4%
|
|
5
|
10.1%
|
|
6
|
2.0%
|
|
7
|
0.9%
|
|
8
|
0.3%
|
|
9
|
0%
|
|
10
|
0.1%
|
|
Clubs
|
|
|
3
|
68.5%
|
|
4
|
19.1%
|
|
5
|
5.6%
|
|
6
|
0.2%
|
|
7
|
0.2%
|
Favorite
Props
Clubs
74.5%; Balls 70.
0%; Bean Bags 35.3%; Rings 20.6%; Devil Sticks 12.6%; Boxes 11.3%;
Sharp Stuff 6.4%; Hats 6.0%; Scarves 5.4%; Bowling Balls
1.9%; Rope 1.5%.
Hours
practice/week
0-3
47.0%
4-6
28.1 %
7-9
9.3%
10-15
5.3%
16+
2.6%
Amount
Spent On Props Last year
Less
than $25 24.1%
$26-50
24.7%
$51-100
17.4%
$101-200
1
5.7
%
$201+
9.9%
Other
Talents
Comedy
24.9%; Musical Inst. 22.1%
;Magic 21.0%;
Singing 2.1%;
Drama 11.3%;
Mime 8.7%; Dance
7.7%; Acrobatics
4.6%.
JUGGLER
by
Lucien Stryk
Someone
with skill juggles
three
worlds together,
rainbow,
miraculous arc.
Something
compels a fourth,
widening
the circle. Five,
six
float in the charged
steep
of his mind: soon
others
whirl his wrist.
Seven,
eight -- now he's on
his
toes, up, up, rising
with
the music of the
spheres.
Still unsatisfied,
risks
the lot, down on his
knees.
He dare not drop one.
Our
lives depend on it.
(Lucien
Stryk is professor of English at Northern Illinois University in
Dekalb. He is the author of several books of poetry and a leading
translator of Japanese poetry. His numerous awards include a National
Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship, a NationalI Translation
Center grant and many others. This poem is reprinted with the
permission of the Ohio University Press, Athens.)
