Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
About Us This report is built around the phone survey work of the Pew Internet & American Life Project done by our polling partner Princeton Survey Research Associates that focused on Internet users who look for health information online. The main survey for this report involved phone interviews with 500 “health seekers” in the summer […]
Introduction Tens of millions of Americans turn to the Internet when they need help with health problems. Health professionals are often apprehensive about the reliability of online health information and wonder how consumers can possibly find good advice in the untamed wilderness of the Internet. In an environment where any quack can create a credible-looking […]
Introduction and Summary The public’s news habits have been largely unaffected by the Sept. 11 attacks and subsequent war on terrorism. Reported levels of reading, watching and listening to the news are not markedly different than in the spring of 2000. At best, a slightly larger percentage of the public is expressing general interest in […]
Finding and evaluating health information on the Web Editor’s note: Since this report raises so many questions about how consumers search for health information online, we asked the Medical Library Association to provide not only a guide to finding information but also examples of the best health Web sites their librarians have found. Included in […]
Introduction The Pew Internet & American Life Project, in a series of reports starting in May 2000, has found that email and the Internet foster social connectedness. Our first report, “Tracking Life Online,” found that Internet users perceive email as a valuable way to stay in touch with family and friends, with many people—especially women—reporting […]
68 million Americans have gained new access to government services and information via the Web and email WASHINGTON – Sixty-eight million Americans have used the Web sites of government agencies, a figure up from 40 million such users two years ago. They exploit their new access to government in wide-ranging ways, finding information to further […]
What they did and how they did it We asked people to tell us a bit about the last time they visited a government Web site. As a result, we learned that government sites are not every-day browsing fare. About 1 in 3 people in our sample (38%) had visited a government site within the […]
Americans increasingly use the Internet to conduct research for their jobs, to make transactions, and share worries and seek advice through emails WASHINGTON, D.C.-As Americans gain experience online, they use the Internet more for their jobs, to make more online purchases and carry out other financial transactions, and to write emails with more significant and […]