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Results for the main Political Typology Survey are based on telephone interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International among a nationwide sample of 2,000 adults, 18 years of age or older, during the period Dec. 1-16, 2004. For results based on the total sample, one can say with 95% confidence that […]
Question language Asked of all respondents IPOD01 Do you have an iPod or other MP3 player that stores and plays music files, or do you not have one of these? IPOD02 Have you ever downloaded a podcast or internet radio program so you could listen to it on your digital audio player at a […]
The activists participating in the study were randomly selected from the Democracy for America (formerly Dean for America) volunteer database. Only active members of the campaign[3. “Active members of the campaign” were defined as those having made a financial contribution or engaged in at least one substantive activity such as attending a MeetUp for Dean.] […]
The nine groups in the political typology are defined by their beliefs and values, not by their demographic characteristics. Yet each group has a distinctly different demographic profile, which in some cases bears little resemblance to those of their ideological and political allies. For example, Enterprisers have by far the highest percentage of men of […]
Fully 45% of American adult internet users and 57% of online teenagers have used the internet when they search for colleges or other schools to attend. Older teenage girls are the most likely to do this: 79% of online teenage girls ages 15-17 have used the internet to search for schools or colleges. Surveys of […]
Gender differences: Men have a higher search profile than women. More men than women use search engines and use them more often. In significant numbers, men are more likely to use search engines than women. Some 88% of men who are Internet users have used search engines, compared to 79% of women. Men also search […]
SAMPLING AND INCLUSION Two distinct categories of media were studied as part of the 2005 PEJ Media Report Card project. The first, text-based media, included newspapers and Internet news sites. Princeton Survey Research Associates International conducted coding for those media. The second, electronic media, included both broadcast network and cable network news. The School of […]