Technologies Used for Communication

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Notes:

• This is a new question for the fifth survey, and was designed to determine what technologies people are using to communicate with each other. The results indicate that most people use many different technologies to communicate.

• Email is used by respondents just as much as the telephone, and both uses are reported by almost all of the respondents (98.1% email, 97.6% phone). The technologies that are used the least are wireless phones (44.3%) and pagers (32.5%), but these percentages are still quite high, in general.

• More than twice as many US respondents use voice mail as European respondents, likewise for pagers.

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Notes:

• There were no significant differences for gender for this question.

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Notes:

• Respondents in the 26-50 age range are more likely to to use each communication method than are other users with the exception of traditional mail ("snail mail") which is used more by older respondents.

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Table of Data for All Categories

badre.dont	All	Male	Female	USA	Europe	19-25	26-50	50+
dont	12 0.18%	2 0.05%	7 0.41%	8 0.18%	1 0.17%	2 0.15%	0 0.00%	0 0.00%
email	6496 98.14%	4070 98.55%	1685 97.74%	4332 98.39%	583 98.81%	1286 98.85%	3545 98.34%	496 98.61%
fax	4944 74.69%	3101 75.08%	1277 74.07%	3231 73.38%	451 76.44%	793 60.95%	2969 82.36%	391 77.73%
night	3248 49.07%	2012 48.72%	872 50.58%	2289 51.99%	242 41.02%	521 40.05%	1979 54.90%	249 49.50%
other	1091 16.48%	704 17.05%	264 15.31%	674 15.31%	139 23.56%	262 20.14%	544 15.09%	48 9.54%
pagers	2151 32.50%	1369 33.15%	555 32.19%	1640 37.25%	104 17.63%	423 32.51%	1246 34.56%	129 25.65%
phone	6462 97.63%	4054 98.16%	1672 96.98%	4308 97.84%	576 97.63%	1262 97.00%	3547 98.39%	492 97.81%
smail	5189 78.40%	3259 78.91%	1369 79.41%	3605 81.88%	380 64.41%	946 72.71%	2950 81.83%	424 84.29%
vmail	4045 61.11%	2484 60.15%	1131 65.60%	3002 68.18%	160 27.12%	724 55.65%	2441 67.71%	255 50.70%
wphone	2935 44.34%	1812 43.87%	775 44.95%	1985 45.08%	216 36.61%	491 37.74%	1661 46.07%	223 44.33%

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GVU's WWW Surveying Team
Graphics, Visualization, & Usability Center
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0280