The demographics extract contains information regarding eBay buyers for successful listings only. Items that have been successfully purchased will contain age, gender, country code and postal code.
Pos
Column
Column Type
Description
1
item_id DECIMAL 12,0 A unique ID for the item (the same as those in the item extract, if that has been purchased)
2
transaction_id DECIMAL 12,0 A unique ID for this transaction ( there might be multiple transactions per item, e.g. dutch auctions , stores, etc.)
3
buyer_id DECIMAL 12,0 A unique ID for the buyer (integer)
4
date_of_birth DATE Buyer's date of birth.
5
gender CHAR 1 Gender : M, F, U (unspecified)
6
buyer_cntry_id DECIMAL 9,0 Numeric identifier for a country. See lookup package : Countries
7
pstl_code VARCHAR 20 Buyer's zip code / postal code

Example Row:
  • Delimiter: Each field is delimited by character 127, the delete character. Hold alt then type 0,1,2,7 in sequence will type the delete character or use "x7F" in most programming languages.
  • Example File Name: 20060504_site0_meta1_demographics.data.gz for meta 1 on eBay.com ending on May 4, 2006.

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