Fig. 1.

(A) Marital status among the 19,131 (unweighted) respondents. (B) Meeting venue. (C) Offline meeting site. 21.66% of the respondents who met their spouse offline met through work, 19.06% through friends, 10.97% at school, 6.77% through family, 8.73% at a bar/club, 4.09% at a place of worship, 9.99% at a social gathering, 7.57% grew up together, 2.66% met on a blind date, and 8.51% met through “other” venues. (D) Online meeting site. Of the respondents who met their spouse online, 4.64% met through instant messaging, 2.04% through e-mail, 9.51% in a chat room, 1.89% through a discussion group/posting board, 20.87% through social network, 2.13% in a virtual world, 3.59% on a multiplayer game site, 6.18% in an online community, 1.59% on a message/blog site, 45.01% through an online dating site, and 2.51% met through “other” online venues. (E) Online dating site. Of the 45.01% who met through an online dating site, 25.04% met on eHarmony, 24.34% on Match, 7.21% on Yahoo, 5.71% on Plenty of Fish (POF), 24.74% were spread in smaller numbers (<100) across the remaining 14 dating sites specified in the survey (labeled hereafter as “small”), and 13.09% met on a dating site they specified as “other.”