Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
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 […]
Introduction The rise of e-government has been one of the most striking developments on the Web. In just a few years, thousands of government agencies, legislators, and courts have established a Net presence. Today, all three branches of the federal government are online, and the portal FirstGov.gov claims to link to 47 million pages.[1. http://www.firstgov.gov/top_nav/about.html?ssid=1007419749171196_172 […]
Part 1: Shopping and gift buying online The overall e-shopping picture Online shopping continues to grow as a popular Internet activity. Since we have begun to track online activity in March 2000, the overall size of the online shopping population has grown from 44 million people (the number of those who have ever bought a […]