Teens Forge Forward with the Internet and Other New Technologies
The number of teenagers using the internet has grown 24% in the past four years and 87% of those between the ages of 12 and 17 are online.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
The number of teenagers using the internet has grown 24% in the past four years and 87% of those between the ages of 12 and 17 are online.
The nature of teens’ online activities changes with age and access. In the same way that age matters when looking at patterns of internet use among different generations of adults, teens continue to demonstrate different phases of internet use as they grow older and new technologies become available to them. Some of these changes in […]
The Parents & Teens 2004 Survey sponsored by the Pew Internet and American Life Project obtained telephone interviews with a nationally representative sample of 1,100 teens ages 12-17 and their parents living in continental United States telephone households. The interviews were conducted in English by Princeton Data Source, LLC, from October 26 to November 28, […]
Schools-related questions in the survey Final Topline, 12/14/04 Data for October 26 – November 28, 2004 Princeton Survey Research Associates International for the Pew Internet & American Life Project Interviewing dates: 10.26.04 – 11.28.04 Margin of error is plus or minus 3 percentage points for results based on parents Margin of error is plus or […]
91% of internet users have changed their online behavior for fear of becoming victims. Computer programs that secretly plant themselves on people’s computers and then monitor users’ online behavior or hijack their browsers have become a scourge.
This survey, sponsored by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, obtained telephone interviews with a nationally representative sample of 2,001 adults living in continental United States telephone households. The survey was conducted by Princeton Survey Research International. Interviews were done in English by Princeton Data Source, LLC from May 4 to June 7, 2005. […]
The author would like to acknowledge the contributions to this study by the following people: Kristen Purcell of Princeton Survey Research Associates designed survey questions that capture the slippery concepts of spyware, adware, and internet security. Lee Rainie, John Horrigan, and Katherine Murray of the Pew Internet Project provided editorial insights and analytical support. The […]