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    Appendix A: Survey Methodology

    The survey was conducted by telephone with a national sample of adults (18 years of age or older) living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The results reported here are based on 2,012 interviews (1,032 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone and 980 were interviewed on a cell phone). Interviews […]

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    About the Surveys

    Most of the analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted Aug. 15-18, 2013, among a national sample of 1,000 adults 18 years of age or older living in the continental United States (500 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 500 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 265 who had […]

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    Main Findings

    58% of teens have downloaded an “app” to their cell phone or tablet computer. As part of an ongoing collaboration with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University to study American teens’ technology use and privacy-related behaviors, the Pew Internet Project has undertaken a study that focuses specifically on youth use of […]

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    Methods

    This report is based on the findings of a survey on Americans’ use of the Internet. The results in this report are based on data from telephone interviews conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International from April 17 to May 19, 2013, among a sample of 2,252 adults, age 18 and older.  Telephone interviews were […]

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    At Grandmother’s House We Stay

    In 2011, 7.7 million children in the U.S.–one-in-ten—were living with a grandparent, and approximately 3 million of these children were also being cared for primarily by that grandparent.[1. Based on cases where a minor child is living with a grandparent who is a household head, spouse of the head, or parent or parent-in-law of the […]

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    Celebrating Christmas and the Holidays, Then and Now

    Nine-in-ten Americans say they celebrate Christmas, and three-quarters say they believe in the virgin birth of Jesus. But only about half see Christmas mostly as a religious holiday, while one-third view it as more of a cultural holiday.

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    Methods

    This report is based on the findings of a survey on Americans’ use of the Internet. The results in this report are based on data from telephone interviews conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International from April 17 to May 19, 2013, among a sample of 2,252 adults, age 18 and older.  Telephone interviews were […]