README_2023.txt

The Public 2023 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

Description:

The enclosed data set is the complete, cleaned results of the 2023 Stack Overflow Developer Survey. Free response submissions have been removed. 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. so_survey_2022.pdf - PDF file of the survey instrument

The survey was fielded from May 8, 2023 to May 19, 2023. The median time spent on the survey for qualified responses was 17 minutes.

Respondents were recruited primarily through channels owned by Stack Overflow. The top 5 sources of respondents were onsite messaging, blog posts, email lists, meta.stackoverflow posts, banner ads, and social media posts. Since respondents were recruited in this way, highly engaged users on Stack Overflow were more likely to notice the links for the survey and click to begin it.

You can find the official published results here:

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/

Find previous survey results here:

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey

Legal:

This database - The Public 2023 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 2023 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. <3