The Web in Daily Life
That’s the percentage of online Americans who say the internet has greatly improved the way they pursue their hobbies and interests.
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That’s the percentage of online Americans who say the internet has greatly improved the way they pursue their hobbies and interests.
That’s the number of Americans who now seek out news on the internet on a typical day. The daily audience online for news has grown dramatically since 2002 — a surge fueled by the rise in home broadband connections.
47% of adult Americans have a home broadband connection as of early 2007
People with chronic conditions are likely to be older and less educated than the general population. Large surveys of Americans generally show that about one-fifth of the adult population live with disabilities or serious chronic conditions.[3.numoffset=”3″ In the 2004 American Community Survey, 35 million Americans age 16+ were estimated to be living with a “long-lasting […]
Pew Forum Faith Angle Conference Key West, Florida Some of the nation’s leading journalists gathered in Key West, Fla., in December 2007 for the Pew Forum’s biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life. Stephen Prothero, chair of the Department of Religion at Boston University, discussed the issue of religious illiteracy in the […]
Parents & Teens 2006 Survey Final Topline, 12/01/06 Data for October 23 – November 19, 2006 Princeton Survey Research Associates International for the Pew Internet & American Life Project Margin of error is plus or minus 3 percentage points for results based on all parents Margin of error is plus or minus 4 percentage points for […]
Sources One reason the line up of stories on the user-news sites may be different from the mainstream media is where they are drawn from. About seven in ten (71%) stories on Del.icio.us, Reddit and Digg, originally appeared on blogs and sites that generally offer very little news. Overall, four in ten (40%) stories originated […]
About the Pew Internet & American Life Project The Pew Internet Project is a nonprofit, non-partisan initiative of the Pew Research Center that explores the impact of the Internet on children, families, communities, the work place, schools, health care, and civic/political life. Support for the project is provided by The Pew Charitable Trusts. More information […]