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From: John McNutt <mcnuttjg
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Date: Sep 3, 2006 12:17 PM
Subject: [NIRG] FW: New Data on How Americans Use the Internet
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From: Cornelia Carter-Sykes [mailto:ccarter-sykespewinternet.org]
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 10:49 AM
To: mcnuttjgnetzero.com
Subject: New Data on How Americans Use the Internet
Those who are regular users of our data will find that we've recently
posted an updated and reorganized version of our "Usage Over Time"
spreadsheet in the Latest Trends section of our website:
http://www.pewinternet.org/trends.asp
The spreadsheet is meant to serve as a quick reference guide to some of
the core data on internet use and online activities that has been
gathered by the Pew Internet & American Life Project since 2000. The
spreadsheet can be used to examine changes over time among online
Americans in key internet activities such as using email, getting news
online, doing internet banking, using search engines, accessing weather
information, buying products, pursuing hobby information, making travel
reservations, getting sports information, downloading music and other
digital files, sending instant messages, and participating in online
auctions.
The spreadsheet also contains some demographic data for all of those
activities, so users can compare trends among online men and women,
different age cohorts, and different racial and ethnic groups.
Before accessing the spreadsheet, we recommend that all users first read
over an updated version of the "Usage Over Time Tip Sheet"; here:
http://www.pewinternet.org/trends/UsageOverTimeTipsheet.pdf
While the data included in the spreadsheet reflect just a small sampling
of all the research done by the Project over the past seven years, those
who are interested in digging deeper into our library can access all of
our raw data sets and questionnaire files here:
http://www.pewinternet.org/data.asp
We are pleased to provide our raw data to scholars and analysts for
their own research, and we hope it will be useful in furthering their
understanding of the evolution and impact of internet use.
We would also appreciate hearing from those of you who use our data. If
you have cited the Project in a speech, given a lecture containing some
of our research, used our data in a client presentation, assigned our
reports for a class, or cited our findings in an article or book, please
let us know, http://www.pewinternet.org/about.asp. We and our
benefactors at the Pew Charitable Trusts always enjoy learning about how
our research is being used.
Cornelia Carter-Sykes
Manager, Pew Internet
The Pew Research Center
202-419-4513
.