Overview

Broadband users spend more time online, do more things, and do them more often than dial-up Internet users. They are more likely to create content. Their online world is much more expansive than dial-up users. They also high levels of satisfaction with the way the Internet helps them connect to family and friends, learn new things, pursue their hobbies, do their jobs, and connect to local organizations.

About the Survey

This report is based on the findings of a survey of Americans about their use of the Internet.  The results are based on data from telephone interviews conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates between January 29 and February 20, 2002, among a sample of 507 Internet users, 18 and older, who have broadband Internet access.  For results based on the total sample, one can say with 95% confidence that the error attributable to sampling and other random effects is plus or minus 4 percentage points.  In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting telephone surveys may introduce some error or bias into the findings of opinion polls.