Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Introduction Previous studies by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that a home high-speed internet connection draws people deeper into internet use, and the data from our December 2005 survey add further weight to this finding. Half of online users (53%) say they spend more time online since getting a high-speed internet connection […]
About The Pew Internet & American Life Project The Pew Internet & American Life Project is a non-profit initiative, fully-funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts to explore the impact of the internet on children, families, communities, health care, schools, the work place, and civic/political life. The Project is non-partisan and does not advocate for any […]
Introduction Once a person makes the switch to a high-speed internet connection at home, his or her relationship to the internet deepens. A home broadband user logs onto the internet more often and does a wider range of activities online than a dial-up internet user.[1. The Project has documented how a home broadband connection affects […]
The results in this report are based on data from a series of telephone interviews conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International between October, 2004, and June, 2005. For results based on the sample of 6,403 adults, 18 and older, conducted January-June, 2005, one can say with 95% confidence that the error attributable to sampling […]