Timeline of Fan Surveys

This page lists Fan Surveys and other articles about fandom polls, arranged in chronological order.

See also Category:Surveys by Fans.

Examples Wanted: Editors are encouraged to add more examples or a wider variety of examples.

1970

• the Strekfan Roster Questionnaire in 1970/71, the results used for Star Trek Lives!

1973

• Star Trek Animated Version Survey (1973/74)
• first STW Volunteer Worker Questionnaire

1974

• Star Trek Movie Cast Poll

1976

• Questionnaire: A Piece of the Action. For Shatner: Where No Man...
• Second STW Volunteer Worker Questionnaire

1978

• August Party 1978 Survey

1980

• 1980 Star Trek: The Motion Picture STAG Survey
• The Pits Questionnaire

1981

• survey by Concerned Supporters of Star Trek
• Star Trek - The Fans: A Study of the Legend and Its Followers

1984

• Annual Zine Fan Survey (results printed 1985 at MediaWest*Con #5)

1985

• Star Trek IV: William Shatner-Paramount Salary Dispute and Survey
• the Comlink surveys, the first was taken in 1985, published in 1986 in issue #25

1987

• Women in K/S Fandom: A Survey
• the On the Mark survey called "Fantasy Film Survey" in 1987, the results used for an unclear reason, as On the Mark was an official Mark Hamill fan club

1990

• Who Are Star Trek Fans? A Survey

1992

• The Starman Survey (published)

1993

• 1993 Virgule-L Fan Fiction Survey

1994

• 1994 Beauty and the Beast Fan Questionnaire
• 1994 Virgule-L Memorable Songvids Survey

1996

• Sandy Herrold's 1996 Slash Fandom Survey

1997

• Cinda Gillilan's 1997 Fan Survey

1998

• The Blake's 7 Q-study
• The Survey of Pern - undertaken by the person playing the character "Torlan" for their Journeyman Project as a harper apprentice in Harper's Tale MOO, circa 1998
• the Understanding Slash Challenge - the results are available at TER/MA

2000

• Vachon's Library 2000 Fan Fiction Survey
• A Cyborg Subculture: Slash Fandom Online
• Slash Writers Survey - the results were available at Mona's Fiction Page

2004

• K/S Survey for the K/S Press

2005

• Fandom Wank Poll: Fandom Wank, possible virtures of.
• Nerfherder's Playground: Do you either buy or read fanzines?

2006

• The Origin of Squickies

2008

• X-Phile Census

2009

• Ogi Ogas Survey on The Cognitive Neuroscience of Fan Fiction
• SurveyFail - not by fans

2011

• Slash Fandom Questionnaire: Project J.E.N.I., ^{Archived version} (a questionnaire for slash fans, a base for an academic paper, uses "One index finger on the mouse scroll bar and the other on my clit": slash writers' views on pornography, censorship, feminism and risk as a jumping-off place) (2011)

2013

• AO3 Census: Masterpost by centrumlumina

2016

• Game of Thrones Research Project (begins)
• the Fansplaining Fic Preferences Survey, conducted by the Fansplaining podcast

2017

• The Captain Swan Fanfiction Survey
• Severus Snape fandom survey
• The Yuri Fandom Demographic Survey
• Clexa au survey

2018

• Pro Shipping/Anti Anti Survey

2020

• RWBY WLW Ship Survey
• RWBY MLM Survey