Data Set

March-May 2002 Data Set

May 24, 2002

This dataset contains tracking data and questions pertaining to Internet access and barriers to access. Many questions asked of non-users.

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Media Mention

Computer Aid for the Poor Could Dry Up

Karen MacPherson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

May 16, 2002

A coalition of 100 civil rights, education, religious and labor groups yesterday launched a "Digital Empowerment Campaign" in a nationwide effort to persuade Congress to save two federal programs aimed at bringing technology to low-income Americans. ...

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Americans Make Life Decisions on the Net

BBC Online Staff, BBC Online

May 15, 2002

Research by US-based think-tank Pew Internet found that millions of Americans are turning to the web for help about getting a job, moving home and choosing a school for their children. Nearly half said that the internet played an important role i...

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Report

Use of the Internet at Major Life Moments

May 8, 2002Lee Rainie, Nathan Kommers

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...

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More in: Decision Making, Education, Health, Shopping, Work

Media Mention

Americans now depend on the Net

BY LESLIE BROOKS SUZUKAMO, St. Paul Pioneer Press

Mar 4, 2002

A year ago, when she lived in Grand Rapids, Mich., Trish Hazzard mainly used the Internet to e-mail friends and family. But when she relocated to Bloomington last summer, Hazzard's life got a whole lot busier — and so did her Internet usage. The Ne...

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Report

Getting Serious Online: As Americans Gain Experience, They Pursue More Serious Activities

Mar 3, 2002Lee Rainie, John Horrigan

As Americans gain experience online, they use the Internet more for their jobs, to make more online purchases and carry out other financial transactions, and to write emails with more significant and intimate content.

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More in: Decision Making, Shopping, Email

Data Set

January 2002 Tracking Data Set

Jan 31, 2002

This dataset contains questions about how people use the Internet when making important decisions in their lives. It also includes general tracking questions.

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Report

Trust and Privacy Online

Aug 20, 2000Susannah Fox

Online Americans have great concerns about breaches of privacy, while at the same time they do a striking number of intimate and trusting things on the Internet, and the overwhelming majority has never had a seriously harmful thing happen to them onl...

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More in: Safety, Decision Making, Identity

Media Mention

The Net Effect: Social Impact

Tom Zucco, St. Petersburg Times

Jun 25, 2000

From St. Petersburg Times

There were lots of dire predictions about how the Internet would affect our lives. Now the research is starting to come in. This much is clear: It will draw us together. Unless it pulls us apart.

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