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ACA Climbing Insurance Survey – Please Help 28-Apr-2006 At 6:02:51 PM MartinR

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Thanks to everone who responded to the survey. We had over 250 replies and that is enought for the Insurance guys to have a look at the options.

Will keep you up to date with the progress on this.

Cheers,

Martin

For your interest the results were:

Q1) Where are you from?
Australia (94.8%), Germany (0.7%), Italy (0.4%) NZ (1.1%), USA (1.1%), UK (1.1%), Other (0.4%)
Q2) How old are you?
<18 (0.7%), 18-24 (12.6%), 25-34 (45.7%), 35-44 (27.5%), 45-60 (12.6%), 60+ (0.7%)
Q3) How long climbing?
< 1 year (1.5%), 1-3 y (11.5%), 3-5 y (20.1%), 5-10 y (26.4%), 10-20 (27.9%), 20+ (12.6%)
Q4) What is the top grade you climb?
10-16 (7.4%), 17-20 (29.7%), 21-25 (45.4%), 25-30 (15.6%), 30+ (1.9%)
Q5) How often do you climb?
Monthly 4-6 times year 2-3 times a year once a year, every few years, never
OZ 78% 14% 5% 1% 1% 0%
OS 1% 2% 9% 28% 46% 14%
Q6) What sort of climbing do you do?
Sport 81%
Free 72.5%
Aid 17.1%
Soloing 7.8%
Treking 49.4%
Mountaineering 41.6%
Other 20.8%
Q7 Rate what you would like to see in a climbing insurace product?
unecessary OK Important Very important Essential
Medical 0% 1% 8% 16% 75%
Evacuation 1% 1% 8% 19% 71%
Death 13% 27% 26% 17% 18%
Dental 27% 44% 15% 9% 6%
Liability 10% 25% 27% 19% 18%
Gear 9% 22% 37% 21% 10%

Q8) Do you belong to a climbing Club?
Yes (63.6%) No (31.2%), Other (5.2%)
Q9) Have you ever bought climbing insurance before?
Yes (5.6%), No (70.6%), If yes who (23.8%)
Q10) Suggestions:
Lots of interesting suggestions. Thanks for your feedback.
Q11) What is your name?
everyone answered this one differently, there was no consistency :-).