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Networked Workers
Sep 24, 2008Mary Madden, Sydney Jones
The majority of employed adults (62%) use the internet or email at their job, and many have cell phones and Blackberries that keep them connected even when they are not at work.
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Technology use in the workplace brings up questions about work-life balance, what counts as overtime work, and the extent to which personal online activity can spill into normal working hours.

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Online Job Hunting
Jul 17, 2002Angie Boyce, Lee Rainie
Fifty-two million Americans have looked online for information about jobs, and more than 4 million do so on a typical day.
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May 2002 E-mail at Work Data Set
May 30, 2002
This dataset includes questions on the use of e-mail in the workplace. Also includes questions about occupational information and about the volume of email received.
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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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Internet has unifying effect
By McGregor McCance, Richmons Times-Dispatch
Nov 4, 2001
Survey results compiled by the Pew Internet & American Life Project show that nearly 85 percent of those who use the Internet do so to connect with online communities that reflect their hobbies, professions, passions and beliefs.
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Finding the purrfect uses for the Web
by Stephanie Schorow , Boston Herald
Jul 17, 2001
A recent survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project of the time people spend online underscores how the best laid plans of dot-coms and start-ups oft go astray.
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Time Online
Jul 16, 2001Lee Rainie, Susannah Fox
Four in ten Internet users say the amount of time they spend online has changed in the last six months, with most saying their time online has increased, pointing to work or school demands as the cause.
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Wired Workers
Sep 3, 2000Lee Rainie
Some 38 million full-time workers have Internet access at work, and though access multiplies the possibilities for goofing off, seventy-two percent of that 38 million say that Internet access at work has improved their ability to do their jobs.
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Data Set
April 2000 Survey Data
Apr 1, 2000
This file contains standard tracking data on Internet use, music downloading behaviors and questions about the Internet posed to those not online.
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Data Set
March 2000 Survey Data
Mar 1, 2000
Extensive tracking of internet use basics, email use, family connectedness and social capital.
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