I think it would be interesting to see what the Swiss Mustachian community is made of, so i would propose a survey in the style of this MMM one. Of course the dataset here will be smaller but it should still be enough to make some broad deductions. This might even be a fitting topic for a @_MP blog post.
In this post i would like to collect possible questions and such. I will try to keep this post updated
Tell me if you have other ideas or think some of the questions are irrelevant.
Gender
Male
Female
Other
Age (I just use 5 year blocks)
<20
20-25
25-30
30-35
35-40
40-45
45-50
>50
Marital status
Married
Engaged
Divorced
Not married
Children (including unborn ones)
This one is easy as it is just a number
Living Situation
Alone
With Spouse
Partnership/Concubinage (living with romantic partner but not married)
Shared
With parents
Job (I just ripped the ones from MMM and added some) this should probably be a multi-select
Software Engineering/Development/Programming
Other Engineering or High Tech Job
Lawyer or legal industry
Doctor or healthcare industry
Trades (carpentry, house building, plumber, etc)
Entrepreneur (in any field)
Financial Industry
Teacher or other role in education
Something in the Artsy industries
Some other form of Cubicle Jockey
Other
Whatever work I want to do - I’m Retired!
Unemployed
Stay-at-home spouse
Student (thanks nugget)
Full-time-equivalent (Can not find a good translation for that)
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
Dynamic (?)
Origin (Suggestions for a better title highly welcomed, I mean the country someone grew up in)
Switzerland
Germany
France
Austria
Italy
Poland
Spain
Portugal
UK
Europe other
USA
America other
Australia
Africa
Asia
Canton of residence (Thanks Alex)
Obvious list of cantons.
Salary yearly, personal(not household), gross, with 13th and bonus
<30k
30-50k
50-100k
100-150k
150-200k
>200k
Household income yearly, including everything, before taxes
<30k
30-50k
50-100k
100-150k
150-200k
>200k
Net worth
<10k
10-50k
50-100k
100-200k
200-500k
500k-1M
1-2M
>2M
Target retirement age
<25
25-30
30-35
35-40
40-45
45-50
50-55
>60
Brokerage
IB
CornerTrader
Suissquote
PostFinance
Degiro
Other
Bank (additional entries highly apreciated)
PostFinance
Raiffeisen
UBS
Any Kantonalbank (is it ok to lump those together?)
I think with origin you mean nationality.
I would change concubinage to partnership.
I think ten year buckets are enough as you will get very few responses anyway.
What about salary, net worth, target retirement year, bank(s), brokerage(s), 3rd pillar(s), and monthly expense average for last year?
I thought about nationality but place where you grow up is more relevant I think (I know a lot of people who grew up in Switzerland but are some other nationality)
I just looked up the english meaning of concubinage and it appears to be somewhat different to the german one, I like the german one because it is so specific(At least the Swiss legal definition). However I am not sure partnership is the best fit either.
The 5 year buckets are fine I think, I can always group them together later If I have too little Data.
I will add Salary and Net-worth as they are still quite broad.
The other questions seem interesting but I think they are out of scope as this is meant to be more of a “Who are the mustachians” survey. They are however a good Idea for a separate survey (there is already one for brokers).
I think it could be cool to have an “estimated yearly/monthly expenses”, maybe in percentage or as fix number. Maybe monthly event? Like living in CH at the moment it cost me and my family 3000 chf/month (example)
yes and no. saving rate is compared to your gross income. You can spend 4k a month and having a saving rate of 50% if you get 8k a month. Problem is we should then precisely define the denominator.
I’m more interested in knowing how much mustachian in ch spend every month without counting taxes. Could be more motivational: like MMM does when he presented his budget of 24k for the entire year.
Know what, that makes more sense, I will add it and most of the things from @Revoil. This might change the point of the survey but it seems to make more sense.
I don’t know how useful that would be. Everybody has different conditions (family, kids, hobbies, etc.). Without knowing all those variables, how can you compare a family of 5 spending 4k a month with a single 20-year-old spending the same?
of course. But if I’m the 20 year old and I think I’m frugal and I see a family of 5 that spends as much as me, then it could really be a wake up call and motivational
Sure, but you won’t be able to draw those conclusions from the survey unless you have all the responses of each particular user. I don’t think that knowing that 37% of mustachians on this forum spend between 2k and 4k a month would be particularly useful without a lot more data.
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