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Broadband Users vs. Dial-Up Users
Online Activities: Share of users in each category who have ever done listed activity |
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All Internet Users |
Dial-Up At-Home Users |
Broadband at home (all respondents) |
| Use an online search engine |
89% |
80% |
94% |
| Check weather reports and forecasts |
80% |
75% |
84% |
| Get news online |
73% |
61% |
80% |
| Visit a state or local government website |
66% |
55% |
72% |
| Look online for information about 2008 election |
55% |
37% |
62% |
| Watch a video on a video-sharing site like You Tube or Google Video |
52% |
29% |
60% |
| Look online for information about a job |
47% |
36% |
50% |
| Send instant messages |
40% |
38% |
44% |
| Read someone else's blog |
33% |
15% |
40% |
| Use a social networking site like MySpace, Facebook, or Linkedln.com |
29% |
21% |
33% |
| Make a donation to charity online |
20% |
9% |
23% |
| Download a podcast |
19% |
8% |
22% |
| Download or share files using peer-to-peer networks such as BiTorrent or LiveWire |
15% |
15% |
17% |
| Create or work on your own blog |
12% |
8% |
15% |
| Number of cases |
1,553 |
249 |
1,138 |
Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project Survey, April 2008
| The above table reports responses to questions that ask respondents if they "yesterday" did a specific activity.
This yields a portrait of what users in a specific category do on a typical day online. |
Online Activities: Share of users in each category who do listed activity on the typical day |
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All Internet Users |
Dial-Up At-Home Users |
Broadband at home (all respondents) |
| Use an online search engine |
49% |
26% |
57% |
| Check weather reports and forecasts |
30% |
14% |
36% |
| Get news online |
39% |
18% |
47% |
| Visit a state or local government website |
13% |
4% |
16% |
| Look online for information about 2008 election |
23% |
10% |
27% |
| Watch a video on a video-sharing site like You Tube or Google Video |
16% |
5% |
20% |
| Look online for information about a job |
6% |
4% |
6% |
| Send instant messages |
13% |
6% |
16% |
| Read someone else's blog |
11% |
3% |
15% |
| Use a social networking site like MySpace, Facebook, or Linkedln.com |
13% |
7% |
16% |
| Make a donation to charity online |
1% |
0% |
2% |
| Download a podcast |
3% |
1% |
4% |
| Download or share files using peer-to-peer networks such as BiTorrent or LiveWire |
3% |
2% |
3% |
| Create or work on your own blog |
5% |
3% |
6% |
| Number of cases |
1,553 |
249 |
1,138 |
Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project Survey, April 2008
| The above table summarizes the relative intensity of the different classes of users based using the average and median for the total number of activities users do out of the 14 listed - both for the total ever done and the total done on the typical day. |
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