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Overview Despite tumultuous events abroad, the public’s news habits have been relatively stable over the past two years. Yet modest growth has continued in two important areas online news and cable news. Regarding the latter, the expanding audience for the Fox News Channel stands out. Since 2000, the number of Americans who regularly watch Fox […]
The recurring theme of “reinvention” in American government has in recent years been fueled by the desire to employ networked communication technologies to enhance government’s capacities. Electronic government, or e-government, has come to refer not just to Web pages of government agencies and government officials using email, but also to the Internet’s transactional and interactive […]
Results for the survey are based on telephone interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International among a nationwide sample of 1,000 adults, 18 years of age or older, during the period April 21-25, 2004. Based on the total sample, one can say with 95% confidence that the error attributable to sampling […]
Summary of Findings The presidential election is capturing the public’s attention much more now than it did at this point four and eight years ago. Nearly half of Americans (47%) say they are more interested in politics than they were four years ago, up from 38% who expressed that view in June 2000. Public attention […]
by Andrew Kohut in The New York Times
Samples Mirror Public Profile The profile of people interviewed in the standard survey conducted by Pew mirrors most demographic characteristics of the American public. Despite the growing difficulties in obtaining a high rate of response, well-designed telephone polls reach a representative cross-section of the public in terms of race, age, marital status, and even key […]
Results for the survey are based on telephone interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates among a nationwide sample of 1,703 adults, 18 years of age or older, during the period March 17-21, 2004. Based on the total sample, one can say with 95% confidence that the error attributable to sampling and […]
The composition of the sample Most of the respondents have other jobs in addition to their work as in music. So, the answers reported in this survey come from a poorer and less professional segment of the music community than is often represented in the discussions that have raged around Washington about copyright and downloading. […]