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"Internet user statistics"
12/27/2002 Entry

Sometimes what seem like the most obvious statistics are actually quite hard to come by. I have run into this problem numerous times when writing about the state of Internet diffusion. I'm not referring to the general problem of counting and tracking users but even simply gaining access to reliable information about existing data from rigorous national surveys. One solution in such a case is to go get the data yourself and run the necessary crosstabs. So that's what I did with the Current Population Survey data on Internet users. (Of course this makes it sound extremely simple. In reality, it takes a while to figure out how the data were compiled and how you can convert them into a format that makes sense for your purposes.) Today, I put up a page with some graphs about basic Internet user statistics. I've been looking at these data for a piece I'm writing on digital inequality. I figured I might as well share the graphs, perhaps they will be of use to others as well.



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