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12% of internet users look online for information about how to stay healthy on a trip overseas. Just 12% of internet users, or 9% of adults, look online for information about how to stay healthy on a trip overseas, such as through immunizations and shots. This is the first survey in which the Pew Internet […]
66% of internet users look online for information about a specific disease or medical problem. The percentage of internet users who look for information about a specific disease or medical problem has remained the same over the past six years. In 2002, 63% of internet users looked online for information about a specific medical problem, […]
38% of internet users look online for information about hospitals or other medical facilities. Some 38% of internet users, or 28% of adults, go online in search of information about hospitals or medical facilities. Of those adults seeking hospital information online, 45% have consulted online rankings or reviews of hospitals or other medical facilities. About […]
Introduction The American economy has been staggered by financial problems that started in the housing industry and financial sectors but have now spread to most other parts of the domestic and global economy. Families are struggling as large numbers of jobs are being lost or being put at risk, as their ability to keep their […]
Results for this survey are based on telephone interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates among a nationwide sample of 1,502 adults, 18 years of age or older, from June 10-14, 2009 (1,126 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 376 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 153 who had […]
Some 4.1 million Hispanics of Puerto Rican origin resided in the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia in 2007, according to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.