[Air-l] american internet penetration stats?

Mon Sep 11 11:25:50 PDT 2006

Here are US Internet user, former users (dropouts), nonusers, nonaware, 
aware nonusers, from 1995, 1996, 1997 and 2000 nationally representative 
telephone surveys.  This is table 3.1, from chapter 3, of Katz, J. & Rice, 
R.E. (2002).   Social consequences of Internet use: Access, involvement and 
interaction.  Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.  Table 3.3 breaks usage/nonusage 
percentages down by demographics, table 3.4 by reported start year (i.e., 
1992 through 1999), Table 3.8 shows awareness of Internet in each of the 
survey years by demographics, etc.

     Oct.  1995
     Nov.  1996
     Nov.  1997
     Mar.  2000

      Sample N
     2500
     557
     2148
     1305

      Users
     8.1%
     18.8%
     30.1%
     59.7%

      Former Users as Percent of Respondents
     7.8%
     11.5%
     9.8%
     10.5%

      Former Users as Percent of Current & Former Users
     48.7%
     37.9%
     24.6%
     14.9%

      Not Users
     84.3%
     69.9%
     60.1%
     29.7%

      Not Aware of Internet,

      Not Users
     15.2%
     10.1%
     9.9%
     8.3%

      Aware of Internet,

      Not Users
     69.1%
     59.8%
     50.2%
     21.4%

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Ronald E. Rice
Arthur N. Rupe Chair in the Social Effects of Mass Communication
Co-Director, Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television and New Media
President of the International Communication Association 2006-2007
Fulbright Professor, Finland 2006
Dept. of Communication, 4840 Ellison Hall
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4020
ph: 805-893-8696; fax: 805-893-7102
rrice at comm.ucsb.edu
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nancy Baym" <nbaym at ku.edu>
To: <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 5:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Air-l] american internet penetration stats?

> Yes -- this is the problem I was having, I agree on the value of the
> ITU stats,but I was specifically looking for what percentage of
> Americans were using the internet. Background here is that I am
> looking at American discourse about the internet from 1993ish-2004
> (newspaper advice columns right now), and want to convey a sense of
> how many Americans might have been using the internet during those
> years, especially the early years when the internet is constructed as
> a marriage and life destroying monster (yes, that's really the
> metaphor that gets used).
>
> Thanks,
> Nancy
>
>
>>Andy,
>>it depends on what Nancy looks for. The ITU provides the provider view,
>>the supply-side, the technology side. If Nancy wants to have a look on
>>usage, or the demand side,  the value of the ITU numbers is "somewhat"
>>limited. The number of telephone main lines or of hosts does not predict
>>social usage.
>>
>>Regards
>>F. Thomas
>>
>>Chadwick Andrew wrote:
>>>  Hi Nancy,
>>>
>>>  It's probably better to use the ITU data as the definitive source; they
>>>  are the only official global repository. They rely on the national
>>>  sources, but try to be consistent and rigorous in the way they clean 
>>> the
>>>  data. They have a complete set for the US for every year back to 1995.
>>>  Look for the latest Statistics Yearbook on their website - a goldmine!
>>>
>>>  Yours,
>>>
>>>  Andy
>>>
>>>  ---------------------------------
>>>  Dr Andrew Chadwick,
>>>  Senior Lecturer in Political Science,
>>>  Head of Department,
>>>  Department of Politics & International Relations,
>>>  Royal Holloway College,
>>>  University of London,
>>>  http://www.rhul.ac.uk/politics-and-IR
>>>  http://www.andrewchadwick.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>  -----Original Message-----
>>>>  From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org
>>>>  [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Nancy Baym
>>>>  Sent: 08 September 2006 16:19
>>>>  To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>>>>  Subject: Re: [Air-l] american internet penetration stats?
>>>>
>>>>  Also I do want to mention the Pew chart on American internet
>>>>  adoption at this page:
>>>>
>>>>  http://www.pewinternet.org/trends.asp
>>>>
>>>>  Nancy
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>>
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