How focus groups helped inform our survey about technology use in emerging economies
With global survey research, it’s important to understand what people are thinking about the subject we’re studying. Focus groups help address this.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
With global survey research, it’s important to understand what people are thinking about the subject we’re studying. Focus groups help address this.
In each of 14 countries surveyed in 2016, nearly all people reported owning a mobile phone. But the shares who own a smartphone vary considerably.
India and China have long had a competitive relationship and have emerged as major economic powers. But in the digital space, China has a clear advantage.
People in emerging and developing nations are quickly catching up to those in advanced nations in terms of access to technology.
Many people around the world consider free expression in cyberspace to be a fundamental right.
Only about a fifth of India’s roughly 1.2 billion people are online, according to a recent Pew Research Center report, and the world’s biggest technology companies are clamoring for this large, untapped user base. Facebook recently tried (and failed) to implement its “Free Basics” internet program, and Google is also vying for the vast Indian […]
In our survey of thousands of people across 32 emerging and developing nations, we found some notable data points that might have been lost in the fray.
Our new report looks at how people perceive the internet’s impact on their lives, how many people access it and who they are, and what people do online.
While half of Indian internet users regularly access social media sites, such as Facebook or Twitter, only about a third of these users share views about politics on these social networks.
Within a remarkably short period of time, some developing nations are catching up to the U.S. in technology use.
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