README_2017.txt

The Public 2017 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

Description:

The enclosed data set is the full, cleaned results of the 2017 Stack Overflow Developer Survey. Free response submissions and personally identifying information have been removed from the results to protect the privacy of respondents. There are three files besides this README:

1. survey_results_public.csv - CSV file with main survey results, one respondent per row and one column per answer
2. survey_results_schema.csv - CSV file with survey schema, i.e., the questions that correspond to each column name
3. DeveloperSurvey2017QuestionaireCleaned.pdf - PDF file of survey instrument

The survey was fielded from January 12 to February 6, 2017, with responses sourced from Stack Overflow, Stack Exchange, and social media channels. Four-fifths of responses came from Stack Overflow or another Stack Exchange site. You can find the official published results here:

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017

Find previous survey results here:

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey

Legal:

This database - The Public 2017 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results - is made available under the Open Database License (ODbL): http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/. Any rights in individual contents of the database are licensed under the Database Contents License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/dbcl/1.0/

TLDR: You are free to share, adapt, and create derivative works from The Public 2017 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results as long as you attribute Stack Overflow, keep the database open (if you redistribute it), and continue to share-alike any adapted database under the ODbl.

Acknowledgment:

Massive, heartfelt thanks to all Stack Overflow contributors and lurking developers of the world who took part in the survey this year. We value your generous participation more than you know.