Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Holidays online It has become clear that between a quarter and a third of U.S. Internet users have become quite attached to using the Internet to celebrate the holidays and shop for gifts online. It is a growing group and certainly would have fallen well below 10% of Internet users just several years ago. Active […]
The practice of using the Internet to track down old friends or get background information about a new acquaintance or business contact is popular among Internet users. Often called “Googling”, named after the search engine, about one-third of Internet users have turned to the Internet to find out something about other people. Vanity is a […]
Most American workers say email helps them do their jobs and few feel overwhelmed by the volume of email they handle WASHINGTON — Contrary to the popular perception that American workers are buried in email, a new survey finds that the vast majority of jobholders say their experience with email is very manageable, and they’re […]
Introduction The use of email has become almost mandatory in most U.S. workplaces. The number of U.S. workers with Internet access at their workplaces has grown from under 30 million in March 2000 (the first month the Pew Internet & American Life Project began to monitor Americans’ Internet use) to over 57 million in October […]
WASHINGTON—The growing ranks of experienced Internet users as well as the deepening reach of the Internet into all aspects of American culture has raised all Americans’ expectations about what is available online. New research from the Pew Internet and American Life Project finds that most Internet users (80%) and many non-users (about 40%) expect that […]
The people, places, and technologies that signal the future of email The responses to this survey of email in the workplace have given us a pretty good understanding of the role of email in mainstream work situations – that workers use email moderately and responsibly, that email works better for straightforward communications than delicate ones, […]
This report is based on the findings of a daily tracking survey on Americans’ use of the Internet. The results in this report are based on data from telephone interviews conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates between October 30 and November 24, 2002, among a sample of 2,745 adults, 18 and older. For results based […]
Email at Work This report is based on the findings of a daily tracking survey on Americans’ use of the Internet and email. The results in this report are based on data from telephone interviews conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates between April 9 and May 17, 2002, among a sample of 2,447 Internet users, […]