Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
The number of Americans doing online banking has shot up 164% since we began to explore online life and it is among the fastest-growing Internet activities that we monitor. To read our findings about the rise of convenience activities online click here.
Central banks across the region are tracking remittance income more carefully which has somewhat boosted the numbers they report. Nonetheless, there seems little doubt that the remittance flow has continued to increase over the past two years even as the U.S. economy dropped from its boom time peaks. In 2000 remittances to Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua–nations that receive almost all their money transfers from the United States–totaled some $10.2 billion. This year that figure could reach $14.2 billion or more, a flow of $39 million a day. By 2005 the sum, which does not capture all remittances to Latin America, will go beyond $18 billion, according to projections by the Pew Hispanic Center.
Parents are more enthusiastic about technology than non-parents and more likely to use the Web for health information, for their work or training, and for getting religious information Washington (Nov. 17) – Seventy percent of parents with a child at home use the Internet, compared to 53% of non-parents. These parents are more enthusiastic than […]
At a reporter’s request, we took a special look at those ages 38-56 and compared them to those ages 18-29 and those 65 and older.
A Pew Research Center Note
6-Nation Survey Conducted November 2 – 10, 2002
Summary of Findings As has been the case in recent elections, the popular vote for the House of Representatives is likely to be divided about equally between Republican and Democratic candidates, almost ensuring a narrow advantage for the party that controls the next Congress. The Pew Research Center’s final nationwide survey of 1,035 likely voters […]