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What portion of the delta in republican/democrat identification do you think might be attributable to the much more significant skew between the age of Twitter
by abathur 8y ago
What portion of the delta in republican/democrat identification do you think might be attributable to the much more significant skew between the age of Twitter users and the general population?
This data suggests that, on Twitter:
18-29 are overrepresented by 8%
30-49 are overrepresented by 11%
50-64 are underrepresented by 7%
65+ are underrepresented by 12%
identified democrats overrepresented by 5%
identified republicans underrepresented by 6%
A 2016 Pew report (https://www.people-press.org/2016/09/13/2016-party-identification-detailed-tables/ https://www.people-press.org/2016/09/13/2016-party-identific...) suggested the partisan affiliation deltas per age group (sorry--there's probably a better dataset to use out there: the age ranges don't quite align, and this is just registered voters) broke out like:
18-35: +12% democrat
36-51: +6% democrat
52-70: +2% democrat
71-88: +8% republican