This Pew Internet & American Life Project report is based on the findings of a daily tracking survey on Americans’ use of the Internet. Telephone interviews were conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates between November 29 and December 31, 2005, among a sample of 3,011 adults, 18 and older. For results based on the total […]
Washington — More Americans are turning to the internet as a place to hang out. Nearly a third of internet users go online on a typical day for no particular reason, just for fun or to pass the time. A new report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows that surfing the Web […]
Summary of Findings A growing number of Americans rely solely on a cell phone for their telephone service, and many more are considering giving up their landline phones. This trend presents a challenge to public opinion polling, which typically relies on a random sample of the population of landline subscribers. A new study of the […]
November/December 2005 Daily Tracking Survey Final RDD Topline, 1/13/06 Data for November 29 – December 31, 2005 Princeton Survey Research Associates International for the Pew Internet & American Life Project Sample: n = 3,011 adults 18 and older Interviewing dates: 11.29.05 – 12.31.05 Margin of error is plus or minus 2 percentage points for results […]
Overall, men spend slightly more time online and go online more frequently than women. Various measures of intensity of internet use suggest men are slightly more engaged with their lives online than women. Measures of overall time spent online, frequency of going online, and likelihood to go online on any given day are all stronger […]
Washington – A wide-ranging look at the way American women and men use the internet shows that men continue to pursue many internet activities more intensively than women, and that men are still first out of the blocks in trying the latest technologies. At the same time, there are trends showing that women are catching […]
Some evidence about relationships has been alarming. Robert Putnam argued in 2000 that people are seeing friends and relatives much less than they were in the mid-1960s. For example, family picnics decreased by 60% between 1975 and 1999, and card playing went down from an average of 16 times per year in 1981, to 8 […]
