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reportJul 31, 2025

73% of U.S. adults have experienced some kind of online scam or attack, and these are common across age groups. Most get scam calls, texts and emails at least weekly.

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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.
reportJun 23, 2002

The Broadband Difference: How online behavior changes with high-speed Internet connections

Those who have home broadband connections use the Internet differently from those who have dial-up connections. Broadband users spend more time online, do more things, and do them more often than dial-up Internet users.
reportMay 22, 2002

Vital Decisions: A Pew Internet Health Report

Disease information, material about weight control, and facts about prescription drugs top the list of interests for health seekers. A typical health seeker searches for medical information only occasionally, and she relies on search engines and mult…
reportMay 8, 2002

Use of the Internet at Major Life Moments

Information on the Web is important to significant numbers of Americans when they are making important choices related to education and job training, investments and big-ticket purchases, and health care for themselves or for loved ones. Online mater…
reportApr 3, 2002

The Rise of the E-Citizen: How People Use Government Agencies’ Web Sites

Sixty-eight million Americans have used the Web sites of government agencies, a figure up from 40 million such users two years ago. They exploit their new access to government in wide-ranging ways, finding information to further their civic, professi…

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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.