Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
This report is based on a continuous survey of American adults from November 19 through December 23. Some 4,052 American adults (18 and over) were interviewed – 2,364 of them are Internet users. For results based on the total sample, one can say with 95% confidence that the error attributable to samples of both all […]
Activities Religion Surfers are a spiritually well-rounded group who incorporate into their spiritual lives communal and individual activities, formal and informal practices. The most valued spiritual activities to Religion Surfers are individual prayer (85%), volunteer service (71%), communal worship (70%), and informal conversations with friends (69%). By contrast, the importance to them of going online […]
A matter of faith Studies in all areas have tried to get at the issue of whether the Internet qua Internet has powers that can change people. Concerns have arisen (and been challenged) as to whether Internet use fosters social isolation. The Southern Poverty Law Center, a group which defends victims of hate crimes, watched […]
Online Activities The Pew Internet Project asked not all the online activities questions during every day of surveying in 2000. Different activities have varying numbers of respondents. Email: N=13,946 users; was asked March-December 2000; Margin of Error is ±1%. Just for fun: N=13,946; was asked March-December 2000; Margin of Error is ±1%. Hobby information: N=12,378; […]
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. The Project creates original research that explores the impact of the Internet on children, families, communities, health care, schools, the work place, and civic/political life. The Pew Internet & […]
65 million Americans have sought health care information on the Internet Most online health activities are not covered by HIPAA WASHINGTON-Path-breaking new federal rules designed to protect the medical privacy of Americans will not guard the privacy of Internet users when they are doing the most common e-health actions online. The Health Insurance Portability and […]
The dot-com meltdown and the Web Background In mid-March, the Pew Internet & American Life Project issued a report entitled “Risky Business: Americans see greed, cluelessness behind dot-com’ comeuppance.”[1. See: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/Reports/2001/Risky-Business-Americans-see-greed-cluelessness-behind-dotcoms-comeuppance.aspx] Six months after asking online Americans about how the impact of Internet companies’ problems on their experiences on the Internet, we decided to ask […]
Methodology The report is based on the findings of a daily tracking survey on Americans’ use of the Internet. The results contained in this report are based on data from 11 months of telephone interviewing conducted by Princeton Survey research Associates between March 1, 2000 and December 22, 2000 as well as between February 1 […]
A general portrait of wired teens “I multi-task every single second I am online. At this very moment, I am watching TV, checking my email every two minutes, reading a newsgroup about who shot JFK, burning some music to a CD and writing this message.” — 17-year-old boy Introduction The Internet is the telephone, television, […]
Background on the Pew Internet Project and its surveys of Hispanics The results presented in this report come from a year’s worth of research about how American adults use the Internet and how they feel about it. The Pew Internet & American Life Project commissioned phone survey work from Princeton Survey Research Associates that began […]