Statistics: Introduction:

This section reviews results of some interesting studies of tattoos and opinions of tattoos in the United States. The first section refers to the Harrison Study which was conducted online within the United States between July 14 and 20, 2003 among a nationwide cross section of 2,215 adults. Figures for age, sex, race, education and number of adults in the household were weighted where necessary to bring them into line with their actual proportions in the population.

The second section is a review of interesting facts and statistics collected from numerous sources. Enjoy!

Harrison Study
Demographics:
% of adult respondants who have at least one tattoo:	16%
% of respondants reporting having at least one tattoo that were male:	16%
% of respondants reporting having at least one tattoo that were female:	15%
% of respondants who reported being bisexual or gay:	31%
% of adult respondants who are White:	16%
% of respondants who are Black:	14%
% of respondants who are Hispanic:	18%
% of respondants age 18-24:	13%
% of respondants age 25-29:	36%
% of respondants age 30-39:	28%
% of respondants age 40-49:	14%
% of respondants age 50-64:	10%
% of respondants age 70+:	7%
% of respondants who reported being from the East:	14%
% of respondants who reported being from the West:	20%
% of respondants who reported being from the Midwest:	14%
% of respondants who reported being from the South:	15%
Politics:	&nsbp
% of respondants who were Republican:	14%
% of respondants who were Democrat:	18%
% of respondants whowere Independent:	12%
How Tattoos Make People With Them Feel:	&nsbp
% of respondants who say having tattoos makes them feel more sexy:	34%
% of female respondants who say having tattoos makes them feel more sexy:	42%
% of male respondants who say having tattoos makes them feel more sexy:	25%
% of respondants who say having tattoos makes them feel more rebellious:	29%
% of respondants who say having tattoos makes them feel more attractive:	26%
% of respondants who say having tattoos makes them feel more intelligent:	5%
% of respondants who say having tattoos makes them feel more healthy:	4%
% of respondants who say having tattoos makes them feel more athletic:	3%
How Tattoos Make People Without Them Feel:	&nsbp
% of respondants who say people with tattoos are LESS attractive:	42%
% of respondants who say people with tattoos are LESSsexy:	36%
% of respondants who say people with tattoos are LESS intelligent:	31%
% of respondants who say people with tattoos are MORE rebellious:	57%
% of respondants who say people with tattoos are LESS intelligent:	31%
Regret:	&nsbp
% of respondants who have at least one tattoo who do not regret getting them:	83%
of the 17% who regretted it % identifying themselves as Republican:	24%
of the 17% who regretted it % identifying themselves as living in the South:	21%
of the 17% who regretted it % identifying the reason as being that they had a name tattooed on themselves:	16%
of the 17% who regretted it % identifying the reason as being that they don't like the way it looks:	12%
of the 17% who regretted it % identifying the reason as being that it faded over time:	11%
of the 17% who regretted it % identifying the reason as being that they felt it was a stupid decision:	11%
of the 17% who regretted it % identifying the reason as being that it is more visible than they intended:	8%
of the 17% who regretted it % identifying the reason as being that they have trouble getting jobs:	2%

Section II:

• The National Geographic News stated in April 2000 that 15% of Americans were tattooed (or approximately 40 million people!)
• Esquire Magazine estimated in March 2002 that 1 in 8 Americans was tattooed
• An estimated 15,000 parlors are operating in the United States, according to a recent U.S. News & World Report article (November 1996), which said, on the average, an establishment is being added in the country every day.
• The same U.S. News & World Report article (November 1996) ranked tattooing as the sixth fastest growing retail venture of the 1990s, right behind Internet, paging services, bagels, computer and cellular phone service.
• Search Engine Lycos, ranks the Top 50 search terms every week. "Tattoos" was the third most popular search term in 2002, the fourth most popular search term in 2001, seventh most popular search term for the year 2000, and the eleventh most popular search term in 1999. "Tattoo and tattoos" is one of only seven search terms to never fall out of the Top 50 Search terms in the 199 weeks since Lycos has been keeping track. The other six are Dragon Ball, Pamela Anderson, Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, Las Vegas and the WWE/WWF.
• In July of 2002 "tattoos" reached its highest ranking ever, coming in as the number two most requested search term on the internet. "Tattoos" was requested more often than Britney Spears, marijuana or Kazaa
• The world's most tattooed person is Tom Leppard from the Isle of Skye, Scotland, who has 99.9 per cent of his body covered with a leopard-skin design. Guinness World Records states that the only parts of Tom's body that remain untattooed are the skin between his toes and the insides of his ears.
• The claim to be the world's most tattooed woman is shared between Canadian Krystyne Kolorful and American Julia Gnuse. Both have 95 per cent of their bodies tattooed. Julia began to tattoo her body in order to disguise the effects of porphyria, a disease which can leave skin permanently scarred.

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