6. Subquestion 4

Introduction

Now that we’ve answered the first three questions we’ll answer the question; “What is the difference between the people visiting the Kalverstraat and the Grote Houtstraat with regard to their gender, age, place of residence and purpose of their visit?“.
Our hypothesis to this question is: The gender, the age and the purpose of the visitors will be almost the same. The visitors who visit the Kalverstraat however come from all over the country and many are foreign. The visitors of the Grote Houtstraat are only from Haarlem and surroundings.

To answer our last subquestion we will ask 50 people in each street to answer our short questionnaire.

The questionnaire

We’ve asked 50 people in both streets to answer our questionnaire. The questions that we wanted them to answer were:
1) What is your gender? (most of the time we could just see that though!)
2) What is your age?
3) What is your place of residence?
4) What is the purpose of your visit to the Kalverstraat/Grote houtstraat?

Results Grote Houtstraat

Gender

What is your gender?













Gender
Male: 20
Female: 30

Age

What is your age?























Place of residence

What is your place of residence?





















Purpose

What is the purpose of your visit to the Grote Houtstraat?













Purpose
Looking around: 14
Buying: 21
Both: 15

Results Kalverstraat

Gender

What is your gender?













Gender
Male: 24
Female: 26

Age

What is your age?



















Place of residence

What is your place of residence?



































Purpose

What is the purpose of your visit to the Kalverstraat?













Looking around: 13
Buying: 19
Both 18

Compared results

Gender

When we look at the graph of gender, it seems as if there are more females shopping in the Kalverstraat than in the Grote Houtstraat. But since we only asked 50 people and just picked people that seemed nice to us, it could as well be that by accident we asked more females than males in the Grote Houtstraat than we did in the Kalverstraat. We’ve decided not to use this information in our conclusion.













Age

We’ve held both of the questionnaires on a Friday afternoon between three and four o'clock. We thought there wouldn’t be much difference in the age of people. But as you can see in the graph the people in the Grote Houtstraat are of all ages while the people walking up and down the Kalverstraat are more likely to be between the age of 10 to 29. We can conclude that the Kalverstraat is a place where young people like to go, while people of all ages can be seen in the Grote Houtstraat.













Place of residence








There is quite a big difference between the places of residence of the visitors in both streets. In the Kalverstraat a lot more foreigners can be found than in the Grote Houtstraat. The Grote Houtstraat is a shopping street where people from the surrounding cities go to, while the Kalverstraat is also attractive to people from other parts of the Netherlands.

Purpose













We haven't found much difference in the purpose of people passing through both shopping streets.

Conclusion

Our hypothesis for this subquestion was: The gender, the age and the purpose of the visitors will be almost the same. The visitors who visit the Kalverstraat however come from all over the country and many are foreign. The visitors of the Grote Houtstraat are only from Haarlem and surroundings.

Our hypothesis seems to be partly right and parly wrong.
We decided not take the gender into account, because we don't feel we've done the right research on this part of the topic.
The age did differ a lot, to our great suprise. The people that come to the Grote Houtstraat are of all ages, while the people in the Kalverstraat are mostly younger than 29 years old.
The purpose of the visitors was indeed almost the same.
Looking at the place of residence of the visitors of both streets it is not as easy as we first thought. It is true that more foreigners can be found in the Kalverstraat than in the Grote Houtstraat, but there are foreigners in the Grote Houtstraat also. It is true that there are more visitors from all over the country in the Kalverstraat than can be found in the Houtstraat. Our hypothesis on this part has been proven to be a bit extreme, but we were almost correct.

Our hypothesis; "The gender, the age and the purpose of the visitors will be almost the same. The visitors who visit the Kalverstraat however come from all over the country and many are foreign. The visitors of the Grote Houtstraat are only from Haarlem and surroundings" on the whole was incorrect!