Web Survey Bibliography
Search and email remain the two online activities that are nearly universal among adult internet users, as 92% of online adults use search engines to find information on the Web, and a similar number (92%) use email. Since the Pew Internet Project began measuring adults’ online activities in the last decade, these two behaviors have consistently ranked as the most popular, even as new platforms, broadband and mobile devices continue to reshape the way Americans use the internet and web. Even as early as 2002, more than eight in ten online adults were using search engines, and more than nine in ten online adults were emailing.
Perhaps the most significant change over that time is that both activities have become more habitual. Today, roughly six in ten online adults engage in each of these activities on a typical day; in 2002, 49% of online adults used email each day, while just 29% used a search engine daily.
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Web survey bibliography - Pew Research Center (10)
- Evaluating a New Proposal for Detecting Data Falsification in Surveys; 2016; Simmons, K.; Mercer, A. W.; Schwarzer, S.; Courtney, K.
- Methods can matter: Where Web surveys produce different results than phone interviews; 2016; Keeter, S.
- App vs. Web for Surveys of Smartphone Users: Experimenting with mobile apps for signal-contingent experience...; 2015; McGeeney, K.; Keeter, S.; Igielnik, R.; Smith, A.; Rainie, L.
- Tips for Creating Web Surveys for Completion on a Mobile Device; 2015; McGeeney, K.
- U.S. Survey Research: Sampling; 2015
- A Comparison of Results from Surveys by the Pew Research Center and Google Consumer Surveys; 2012; Keeter, S., Christian, L. M.
- Smartphone ownership update: September 2012; 2012; Rainie, L.
- Ebook readings jumps, print book reading declines; 2012; Rainie, L., Duggan, M.
- Adult gadget ownership over time (2006-2012); 2012
- Search and email still top the list of most popular online activities; 2011; Purcell, K.