An informal survey of 23 Peace Corps volunteers (PCVs) in the Agroforestry, Community Development and Health programs taken at their Close of Service Conference in Yaounde, Cameroon in August, 1997.

Percentage of PCVs who miss Mexican food more than their mom: 86
Percentage of pet owners who had one eaten: 53
Number of different types of insects eaten by the average PCV: 2
Percentage of PCVs who miss cheese more than their siblings: 67
Average number of pounds lost by male volunteers during their service: 17
Average number of pounds gained by female volunteers: 1

Average number of hours PCVs “actually work at post” per week: 13
Percentage of volunteers who spend more of their time working than either drunk or asleep: 1
Percentage of PCVs who spend most of their time asleep: 82

Number of times the average PCV masturbates per month: 25
Percentage of PCVs who had sex during their Peace Corps service: 85
Percentage of males who had sex: 100
Percentage of females who had sex: 75
Percentage of male PCVs who fooled around with a Cameroonian: 60
Percentage of female PCVs who fooled around with a Cameroonian: 38
Percentage of volunteers who had sex with a Cameroonian: 35

Percentage of PCVs with neither running water nor electricity at post: 55
Percentage of PCVs with electricity: 32
Percentage of PCVs with running water: 29

Average number of times a PCV soiled his or her shorts: 1.4
Ratio of the percentage of women who did not shave their legs while in Cameroon to the percentage of PCVs who voted in the 1996 US presidential election: 2:1

Average number of beers consumed per week while at post: 3.5
Average number of beers consumed per week when around other PCVs: 21

Percentage of volunteers who like the Grateful Dead: 67
Percentage of PCVs who saw lions at Waza National Park: 13
Percentage of PCVs who like the Grateful Dead who saw lions at Waza National Park: 29
Number of administrative separations the average PCV has earned: 3

Longest bush taxi ride, in hours: 48
Percentage of female PCVs bothered more by sexual harassment than by illness, racial harassment or bush taxi rides: 55
Percentage of male volunteers who were bothered most by sexual harassment: 0

Percentage of female volunteers who experienced petty theft while in Cameroon: 92
Percentage of male volunteers who experienced petty theft while in Cameroon: 50
Percentage of male volunteers who were robbed, mugged, assaulted, and/or had their home broken into during their Peace Corps service: 50
Percentage of female volunteers: 75

Percentage of female PCVs who take Doxycycline rather than Mefloquine: 38
Percentage of male PCVs who do: 0

Most days a PCV has gone without seeing another ex-patriate: 75
Number of visitors from abroad received by the average PCV: 1
Number of 10 total provinces visited by the average PCV: 8
Percentage of volunteers who left Cameroon on vacation: 50

Percentage of PCVs who like dried fish: 39
Number of articles of clothing the average volunteer had tailored: 9
Most batons de manioc consumed in one day: 12