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February 2004 Pew Internet Tracking Survey (Excerpt) Final Topline, 3/8/04 Data for February 3 – March 1, 2004 Princeton Survey Research Associates for the Pew Internet & American Life Project Sample: n = 2,204 adults 18 and olderInterviewing dates: 02.03.04 – 03.01.04 Margin of error is plus or minus 2 percentage points for results based […]
Samples Mirror Public Profile The profile of people interviewed in the standard survey conducted by Pew mirrors most demographic characteristics of the American public. Despite the growing difficulties in obtaining a high rate of response, well-designed telephone polls reach a representative cross-section of the public in terms of race, age, marital status, and even key […]
As is the case with much of the web, numbers only tell part of the story of online political offerings during the 2004 political season. A page’s personality and depth-what you get from all those links and stories-can’t be captured in a strictly quantitative analysis. So as it did in 2000, the Project asked journalist […]
WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 22 – The number of Americans who have done basic online activities such as getting health information, accessing government data, buying products, and participating in auctions has increased smartly in the past three years, but the growth of the number of Internet users has slowed dramatically markedly in the past two years. […]
Three-quarters of Internet users have looked for information on their hobbies or interests. 77% of Internet users have searched for hobby or interest information online as of January 2002. That represents growth of 40% from 65 million who had pursued hobby information online as of March 2000, to 91 million who had done so by […]
Pew Internet Project Reports, 2000-2003 Online Activities & Pursuits Spam: How it is hurting email and degrading life on the Internet (Author: Deborah Fallows. Release date: October 22, 2003) Available at: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/Reports/2003/Spam-How-it-is-hurting-email-and-degrading-life-on-the-Internet.aspx Music Downloading, File-sharing and Copyright (Authors: Mary Madden and Amanda Lenhart. Release date: July 31, 2003) Available at: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/Reports/2003/Music-Downloading-Filesharing-and-Copyright.aspx Let the Games Begin: Gaming technology […]
Most Internet users have searched for answers to specific questions. 83% of users have done a search online to answer a specific question, according to our latest survey on the subject in September 2002. The number of those who have used the Internet to answer questions grew 24% from 79 million to 98 million between […]
