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What Are You Doing Online?

Thank you very much for joining our survey. We would like you to think about the very last time you went online before this session and answer some questions about it. We're interested in the most recent session when you spent a bit of time online, not one where you just logged on for a few minutes.

1.

Did this session take place today, yesterday or longer ago than yesterday?

2.

Did you log on from home, work or someplace else?

3.

How long was this online session?

4.

Did you do any of these things during this session?

  Yes No

A.

Send or read email

B.

Get news online

C.

Do research for school or training

D.

Look for health or medical information

E.

Not including email, do research for work

F.

Look for information about a hobby or interest

G.

Go online for no particular reason, just to browse for fun

H.

Send instant messages to someone who was online at the same time

I.

Download a music file

J.

Look for information about a job

K.

Look for information about a place to live

L.

Play a game online

M.

Participate in an online auction

N.

Hunt for a particular fact or to get an answer to a particular question

O.

Look for information about movies, books or other leisure activities

5.

How much, if at all, has the Internet improved your ability to do these things?

A Lot Some Only a Little Not at All

A.

Get information about health care

B.

Manage your personal finances

C.

Connect to members of your family

D.

Connect to your friends

E.

Do your job

F.

Shop

G.

Learn new things

H.

Enjoy your hobbies

6.

We'd be interested in hearing about the most amazing thing that has ever happened while you were online. It could be a story about how something on the Web changed your life, something interesting you discovered on the Web, or something really important or even really amusing that happened during an exchange of email.

7.

And now a few questions about you.

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The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project is one of seven projects that make up the Pew Research Center. The Center is supported by The Pew Charitable Trust.