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reportApr 22, 2025

Parents are more worried than teens about teen mental health. Both groups – especially parents – partly blame social media. But teens also see benefits.

short readApr 14, 2025

short readFeb 19, 2025

Elon Musk (left) listens as President-elect Donald Trump addresses the House Republican Conference in November 2024 in Washington, D.C.; Mark Zuckerberg appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee in January 2024. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images and Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

short readFeb 18, 2025

Influencers make a social media video about Sponge Cake the cat in New York City's Times Square on Jan. 19, 2025. (Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images)

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reportNov 17, 2002

Online Banking 2002

Pew Internet Project surveys tracked a 164% increase in online banking and a 90% increase in travel purchases between 2000 and 2002. Convenience and cost savings were the top reasons cited by Internet users who have switched to online banking.
reportOct 2, 2002

Digital Town Hall

Fully 88% of local elected officials use the Internet in the course of their official duties and many say their online activities have helped them learn more about local public opinion, stay in touch better with community groups, and encounter new voices in local civic life.
reportSep 15, 2002

College Students and the Web

Data provided by comScore Networks detailing the kinds of Web sites that are particularly appealing to college students, and the kinds of sites where a high proportion of shoppers are college students.
presentationSep 10, 2002

The Internet and Collecting the History of the Present

This speech covers our findings related to how people used the Internet just after the 9/11 terror attacks and our follow-up survey.
reportSep 5, 2002

One year later: September 11 and the Internet

This report contains the first scholarly studies built around analysis of hundreds of Web sites that have been cached in the September 11 Web Archives, and makes clear that no event in the Web era has so dominated so many Web sites in such a short, intense period of time.
reportAug 14, 2002

The Digital Disconnect: The widening gap between Internet-savvy students and their schools

This focus group-based study of Internet savvy middle and high school students found that students report a substantial disconnect between school-based and teacher-directed internet use and home internet use for school.
reportAug 5, 2002

Hunting for a home online

40 million Americans, one third of all Internet users, have looked online for information about a place to live.
reportJul 17, 2002

Online Job Hunting

Fifty-two million Americans have looked online for information about jobs, and more than 4 million do so on a typical day.
reportJul 3, 2002

Search Engines

85% of American Internet users have ever used an online search engine to find information on the Web and 29% of Internet users rely on a search engine on a typical day. Only the act of sending or reading email outranks search-engine queries as an on…
presentationJun 27, 2002

The Broadband Difference

The presentation highlights our findings about how broadband users are different from dial-up users.

Signature Reports

reportDec 12, 2024

An image of two teenage boys use their smartphones in Vail, Colorado. (Robert Alexander/Getty Images)

Nearly half of U.S. teens (46%) say they’re on the internet almost constantly. YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat remain widely used by teens.

reportMar 11, 2024

Most teens at least sometimes feel happy and peaceful when they don’t have their phone, but 44% say this makes them anxious. Half of parents say they have looked through their teen’s phone.

reportApr 3, 2025

These groups are far apart in their enthusiasm and predictions for AI, but both want more personal control and worry about too little regulation.

reportJan 31, 2024

Most U.S. adults today say they use the internet (95%), have a smartphone (90%) or subscribe to high-speed internet at home (80%). About four-in-ten report being online almost constantly.