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Americans with just basic cell phones are a dwindling breed
The share of Americans who have a basic cellular phone that is not a smartphone has dropped 33 percentage points since 2005.
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Data Feed: Partisanship, Obama, winter storms
A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers. Politics Poll: Obama approval, minimum wage, jobless benefits, Quinnipiac “National thermometer” for 2016 presidential contenders available 12 PM, Quinnipiac American politics more competitive than ever, making partisanship worse, The Washington Post Are red or blue companies more likely […]
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Few Americans track their weight, diet or exercise online
Among the 6-in-10 Americans who say they track their weight, diet or exercise routine, 9% say they use online or app tools.
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Data Feed: Poverty, marijuana, jobs for college grads
A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers. Politics How we estimated an election’s outcome before all the votes were counted, Huffington Post How fed nominations have played out in Senate, The Wall Street Journal What inferences can/ can’t be drawn from the “Republican shift”? Cultural […]
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Methods
The Pew Research Center Library Survey, sponsored by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and the Gates Foundation, obtained telephone interviews with a nationally representative sample of 6,224 people ages 16 and older living in the United States. Interviews were conducted via landline (nLL=3,122) and cell phone (nC=3,102, including 1,588 without a […]
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Detailed Demographic Tables
Internet use and Broadband adoption Nationally, there is a seven percentage point gap between whites and blacks when it comes to internet use. Internet use is nearly universal among younger adults, the college-educated, and those with relatively high incomes, regardless of race. But older blacks are significantly less likely to go online than their white […]
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Chart of the Week: The best-performing U.S. cities
Technology and energy drove the strongest urban economies last year.
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How Americans Value Public Libraries in Their Communities
54% of Americans used a public library in the past year; 72% live in a “library household”
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About this Report
This report is part of a larger research effort by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project that is exploring the role libraries play in people’s lives and in their communities. The research is underwritten by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This report contains findings from a nationally representative survey of 6,224 Americans ages […]