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    5. Other shared and on-demand services

    In addition to asking a series of in-depth questions about home-sharing services, ride-hailing apps and crowdfunding sites, the survey also measured how many Americans have used a number of other shared and on-demand services. This chapter of the report examines the usage and demographics of these other commercial online platforms. Several of these services are […]

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    How Libraries Fit into Community Education Ecosystems

    Lee Rainie presents new survey findings about how people use libraries, the kinds of services and programs people would like from libraries, and how libraries are connected to communication education and learning environments.

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    Acknowledgments

    This report was made possible by The Pew Charitable Trusts. It is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals: Primary researchers Lee Rainie, Director, Internet, Science, and Technology Research Maeve Duggan, Research Associate Michaela Hoffman, Research Intern                                  Research team Aaron Smith, Associate Director, Research Andrew Perrin, Research Assistant Claudia […]

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    Acknowledgments

    This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals. Find related reports online at pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/internet Maeve Duggan, Research Associate Aaron Smith, Associate Director, Internet, Science, and Technology Research Lee Rainie, Director, Internet, Science, and Technology Research Andrew Perrin, Research Assistant Dana Page, Senior Communications Manager Margaret Porteus, Information […]

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    Works Cited

    AAPOR. 2003. “Interviewer Falsification in Survey Research: Current Best Methods for Prevention, Detection and Repair of Its Effects.” Benford, Frank. 1938. “The Law of Anomalous Numbers.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Bredl, Sebastian, Peter Winker and Kerstin Kötschau. 2012. “A statistical approach to detect cheating interviewer falsification of survey data.” Survey Methodology. Bredl, Sebastian, […]

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    1. The state of privacy

    Americans frequently face choices about whether or not to share information about themselves in return for getting something that is potentially valuable to them. From retail stores that track customers’ shopping behavior in exchange for discounts to online applications that offer free services in exchange for serving personalized ads to users, Americans regularly face the […]

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    1. Home broadband adoption: Modest decline from 2013 to 2015

    Broadband adoption in the United States has experienced a modest decline in recent years, falling from 70% in 2013 to 67% in 2015. Those figures compare a September 2013 Pew Research Center survey that has a large sample size of 6,010 adults with combined surveys from April, July and November 2015 that total 6,687 adult […]