How Serious Is Polling’s Cell-Only Problem?
The landline-less are different from regular telephone users in many of their opinions and their numbers are growing fast. Can survey researchers meet this challenge?
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What’s Missing from National RDD Surveys? The Impact of the Growing Cell-Only Population
The number of cell-phone-only households has continued to grow — 12.8% of all households by the end of 2006, according to the National Health Interview Survey. While the noncoverage problem is currently not damaging estimates for the entire population, a study finds evidence that it does create biased estimates on certain variables for young adults, 25% of whom are cell-only.
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China’s eBay-MySpace
In China, there is a virtual meeting place for people who have social connections to buy or sell.
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Online Patient Groups
12% of internet users participate in an online patient group.
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Campaign Watchers on the Net
That’s the percentage of U.S. adults who used the internet during the 2006 midterm election campaigns to get political news and information and to discuss the races through email. And the number of Americans using the internet as their main source of political material doubled since the last mid-term election, rivaling the number from the 2004 presidential election year.
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Spam 2007
37% of email users said spam had increased in their personal email accounts, up from 28% of email users who said that two years ago.
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Health Data Geeks’ Wisdom
Cancer “weather maps,” the age of biology, and how cell-only adults really are different from landline users.
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Digital Content and Users: Patterns and Impacts
This presentation was made at the OECD’s Workshop entitled: “The economic and social impacts of broadband communications: From ICT measurement to policy implications.”
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E-patients.net
Tom Ferguson’s spirit lives on at e-patients.net
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Briefing Panelists Debunk Online Safety Myths
The main point of the recent congressional briefing panel was to stop the misinformation and obfuscation around the issue of online child victimization, and to focus on the facts and observations that had emerged from our collective research.