Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World

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Internet and Technology

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    Cancer and Race

    African Americans are over-represented among cancer patients and under-represented among internet users, particularly on some health discussion group sites.

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    Social Networking Websites

    Online social networking is both about connecting to others through publicily displayed networks and about creating self-expressive content.

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    Demographics, Degrees of Internet Access, and Health

    This presentation contains a general overview of the internet population, an analysis of African Americans and the internet, and some thoughts about the internet’s impact on health and health care.

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    Online Banking 2006

    Online banking is holding steady as a mainstream internet activity, growing along with internet use generally, though not accelerating as have some other forms of online activities.

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    Latinos and cell phones

    Our recent survey about how Americans use and think about their mobile phones revealed notable differences between Latino cell users and whites.

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    Home Broadband Adoption 2006

    Adoption of high-speed internet at home grew twice as fast in the year prior to March 2006 than in the same time frame from 2004 to 2005. Middle-income Americans accounted for much of the increase.