Online Activities The Pew Internet Project asked not all the online activities questions during every day of surveying in 2000. Different activities have varying numbers of respondents. Email: N=13,946 users; was asked March-December 2000; Margin of Error is ±1%. Just for fun: N=13,946; was asked March-December 2000; Margin of Error is ±1%. Hobby information: N=12,378; […]
SELECTED KEY FINDINGS ON FIVE CITIES PORTLAND, OREGON Real changes in communities are evident in Portland as a result of a wide range of community Internet projects, some of them long-established. Portland”s Neighborhood Pride Team, initially founded to revitalize a community in southeast Portland, has grown from one computer in 1995 to a skills center […]
Many use the Internet to connect with online communities that embrace their hobbies, their professions, their passions, and their beliefs 28 million go online with church groups, sports leagues, and social organizations in their home towns WASHINGTON-The Internet allows tens of millions of Americans to participate in a thriving social world where they enjoy serious […]
65 million Americans have sought health care information on the Internet Most online health activities are not covered by HIPAA WASHINGTON-Path-breaking new federal rules designed to protect the medical privacy of Americans will not guard the privacy of Internet users when they are doing the most common e-health actions online. The Health Insurance Portability and […]
12:00 – 1:30 p.m. New York, New York E.J. DIONNE: I’d like to welcome everyone to this discussion and celebration of our book, Sacred Places, Civic Purposes: Should Government Help Faith-Based Charity? We are blessed to have so many wonderful people with us today at this discussion sponsored by the Brookings Institution and the Pew […]
Background on the Pew Internet Project and its surveys of Hispanics The results presented in this report come from a year’s worth of research about how American adults use the Internet and how they feel about it. The Pew Internet & American Life Project commissioned phone survey work from Princeton Survey Research Associates that began […]
Schools and the Internet In 1996, the Telecommunications Act was signed into law, creating the E-Rate program that provided discounts of 20% to 90% to schools (depending upon the number of poor children in a district) to allow them to purchase Internet access for the school or library. More than 98% of American public schools […]
Washington, D.C. Discussants: Gary Bass, OMB Watch Rev. Stephen Burger, International Union of Gospel Missions Bill Faith, Ohio Coalition on Housing and Homelessness Richard Foltin, American Jewish Committee Richard G. Overmoyer, Jr., Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare Darren Walker, Abyssinian Development Corporation Moderated by: Melissa Rogers, Executive Director of the Pew Forum on Religion & […]
Families and the Internet In addition to altering how teens interact with their friends, the Internet is introducing new dynamics into family life. In their overall judgment, parents think that the Internet’s role in their children’s lives beneficial. More than half of parents of online youth (55%) believe the Net is generally a good thing […]
Contact: Lee Rainie Director, Pew Internet & American Life Project 202-296-0019 Allan Holmes Editor in chief, Federal Computer Week 703-876-5102 Judi Hasson Editor at large, Federal Computer Week 703-876-5099 Or contact: Graeme Browning, 301-775-1983 (cell) Uncle Sam Sold $3.6 Billion in Goods to the Public Online Last Year from 164 Web Sites The government “shopping […]
