Welcome to the Pew Internet & American Life Project data page. This page contains links to the Project's survey datasets that are currently available in SPSS on this site. Survey data are generally released as soon as possible and no later than six months after the project has issued a report about the survey. If the information you are interested in is more than six months old but is not here, please contact us.
We are pleased to provide our raw data to scholars for their own research. We hope it will be useful in furthering our collective understanding about how Americans use the Internet. The Project staff is available to answer questions and to provide limited assistance in importing and analyzing the data. But we strongly recommend that only experienced analysts who are familiar with SPSS software or large cross-tabulated data files attempt to download these data sets. The archive is not the place to find answers to specific questions you have about survey results or our reports. Instead, those questions can be directed to Project staff. Please keep us informed of publications that use either report analysis or raw data so that we can keep our research catalogue up to date by emailing us .
Data is presented in two forms: as an SPSS file and as cross tabulations of questions with some basic demographics in a Word file. The data listed on this page (below) are identified by SPSS file name (generally the rough dates that the survey was fielded), a sentence describing contents of data set, and the date the set was posted on the site. To learn more about the survey and the sample used for each dataset, consult the questionnaire which is available for downloading on the individual page for each data set.
All raw SPSS data files include a weight variable that should be used in analysis and is identified in the SPSS file as the variable "WEIGHT." Please check and make sure that the variable is "on" before you begin your analysis.
The SPSS dataset and crosstab Word files are all in compressed files (Zip-file) that may be downloaded and saved on your computer. Other files provided are not zipped. If you find you cannot decompress the files software is available at download.com and on many freeware/shareware sites on the web that will allow you to decompress them.
All manuscripts, articles, books, and other papers and publications using Project data should reference the Pew Internet & American Life Project as the source of the data, and should acknowledge that the Project bears no responsibility for the interpretations presented or conclusions reached based on analysis of the data.
Further questions concerning the datasets may be directed to the Pew Internet Project .
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