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Your denominator is interesting - I presume it includes:
gear - 110 units (of which I have none - alright, I do own a minifigure ice cube tray)
sets that weren't "for sale" (eg the Christmas staff handout, the MMMBs, etc)
duplo - 32 units (ok, so it is lego, but not primarily AFOL market - although I see have bought three for my little boy)
plus a few other interesting categories
So against a narrower measure, I might have about a third, but individual CMFs clearly bump this up. I seem to have more 2011 stuff but possibly higher proportions of sets issued in earlier years.
I thought 45% was pretty high and I was a little surprised, but I'm 99.999% certain someone will beat that figure by a country mile...
I have nothing in my wish list from 2010, which makes my collection 100% complete based on my personal measure of completeness :)
My vital statistics are not worth mentioning...
Oh well, here is a current breakdown of my entire collection by year...
2011 = 22%
2010 = 16%
2009 = 11%
2008 = 5%
2007 = 1.5%
2006 = 1.5%
2005 = .8%
2004 = .2%
2003 = 1.5%
2002 = 2%
2001 = 7%
2000 = 3.9%
1999 = 3.9%
1998 = 2%
1997 = 1.7%
1996 = .5%
1993 = .7%
1992 = 8%
1991 = 1.5%
1990 = 2.7%
1989 = .7%
Sum of number of parts in each of the unique sets owned by you / sum of the number of parts in each of the available sets from 2010
It would be like percentage owned by volume!
Even accounting for the sets I haven't added to the database yet I have less than 200, so looks like Andy is in the lead at the moment.....
But if I happen to move into a house next year that has a sizable attic or basement, then all bets are off! :)
Also: I would LOVE to see photos of how everyone displays/stores their sets.
-Dan
That said, considering how squeamish some people are about people perhaps potentially finding out about the size of their collections, I agree that avoiding any sort of published statistics is a good idea. Despite how curious we may be to know these little tidbits about the Brickset population.
As for metrics, I am with @bluemoose and could care less about individual collections. What I would like to see is the distribution of owned sets which could help show us popularity of sets by year as well as year over year.
Maybe I should go and work for customer insight at Lego :)
I also think it would give casual users of the site an insight into just how many serious collectors are on here, and quite how serious they are, which would be no bad thing I think. There's nothing else on brickset which currently does this.
As for myself, I have 25 sets from 2010 and want 2. Good enough for me!