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MBTI™ Statistics '98The figures below are from a random sampling of 3009 people culled from a total pool of 16,000 using the 1998 MBTI™ Form M. The individuals whose form results were used in this random sampling were not provided with the data to verify or question their accuracy. But these numbers do provide a working base on which to build further understanding and development of the model as extraplated to larger populations. At Toronto's 1998 Ontario Association for the Application of Personality Type Conference, "Growing with Type," Danielle Poirier gave an excellent presentation on the then-new MBTI™ Form M and manual, for those who may be interested in researching more background information for these figures. These MBTI™ statistics are from the psych-type list, circa 1998. M - Males, F - Females, T - Totals
The modal type (the largest group) for males in this sampling is ISTJ. For females, the modal type is ISFJ. ISFJ is the largest type group overall, in this sampling. Male INFJs and female INTJs are the smallest groups by gender within this population, with INFJ the rarest overall type.
This
would indicate that the E-I split is close to 50-50. There
is some speculation that the general male T preference (just over 50%
of all males) and female F preference (75%),
That
INFJ turns out as the rarest type is unsurprising. MBTI Statistics '88 - '91Some older statistics, from the intj-list. The Journal of Psychological
Type, Volume 37, 1996 contains a paper by Allen L. Hammer and Wayne D.
Mitchell that examines type distributions in US adults. The type preferences
of a national (US) sample stratified by gender, ethnicity and geographic
location were obtained from 1,267 adults aged 18 to 94 who completed Form
G of the MBTI™ between 1988 and 1991. This sample was selected from
a larger sample to match as closely as possible the gender by ethnicity
breakdown of the US 1990 Census. Compared to three previous estimates
of type percentages in the population, the present sample provides the
closest approximation to the type table that might be obtained from a
national random sample. The 16 Types ISTJ 15.6% ISFJ 11.5% INFJ 2.6% INTJ 3.5% ISTP 6.4% ISFP 4.5% INFP 4.3% INTP 5.2% ESTP 4.8% ESFP 5.7% ENFP 6.3% ENTP 4.7% ESTJ 9.9% ESFJ 9.6% ENFJ 2.5% ENTJ 2.8% Dichotomous Preferences E 46.3% I 53.7% S 68.1% N 31.9% T 52.9% F 47.1% J 58.1% P 41.9% Functional Pairs and Temperaments ST 36.8% SF 31.3% NF 15.8% NT 16.1% SJ 46.7% SP 21.4% By Gender -- Females: The 16 Types ISTJ 12.3% ISFJ 16.2% INFJ 3.1% INTJ 2.2% ISTP 4.3% ISFP 6.4% INFP 4.2% INTP 4.0% ESTP 3.6% ESFP 7.2% ENFP 6.6% ENTP 2.8% ESTJ 7.3% ESFJ 14.1% ENFJ 3.4% ENTJ 2.1% Dichotomous Preferences E 47.2% I 52.8% S 71.4% N 28.6% T 38.8% F 61.2% J 60.8% P 39.2% Functional Pairs and Temperaments ST 27.5% SF 43.9% NF 17.4% NT 11.2% SJ 49.9% SP 21.6% By Gender -- Males: The 16 Types ISTJ 19.4% ISFJ 6.3% INFJ 2.0% INTJ 4.8% ISTP 8.7% ISFP 2.3% INFP 4.5% INTP 6.5% ESTP 6.2% ESFP 4.0% ENFP 6.0% ENTP 6.7% ESTJ 12.9% ESFJ 4.7% ENFJ 1.5% ENTJ 3.5% Dichotomous Preferences E 45.4% I 54.6% S 64.4% N 35.6% T 68.6% F 31.4% J 55.1% P 44.9% Functional Pairs and Temperaments ST 47.1% SF 17.4% NF 14.0% NT 21.5% SJ 43.2% SP 21.2%
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