GVU's Seventh WWW User Survey Politic Graphs

Involvement with Issues

Notes:

A popular hypothesis was that having political material online and available to more people would make people more knowledgeable of and involved with political issues. Our results do seem to bear this out since 44.0% of respondents report being more involved with the issues since coming online. However, a slightly higher percentage (46.5%) report being equally involved. Respondents from Europe are more likely to report feeling more involved with the issues than respondents in the US. Younger respondents are more likely to feel more involved while older respondents feel equally involved since coming on line.

Table of Data for All Categories

Involvement with Issues	All	Male	Female	USA	Europe	19-25	26-50	50+
Don't know	1024.00 8.16%	609.00 7.19%	405.00 10.25%	774.00 7.71%	68.00 8.44%	165.00 7.42%	573.00 7.60%	184.00 10.32%
Equally Involved	5832.00 46.48%	3903.00 46.09%	1883.00 47.63%	4807.00 47.85%	325.00 40.32%	918.00 41.28%	3668.00 48.63%	856.00 48.01%
Less Involved	176.00 1.40%	118.00 1.39%	53.00 1.34%	133.00 1.32%	9.00 1.12%	35.00 1.57%	104.00 1.38%	18.00 1.01%
More Involved	5514.00 43.95%	3838.00 45.32%	1612.00 40.78%	4331.00 43.12%	404.00 50.12%	1106.00 49.73%	3198.00 42.40%	725.00 40.66%

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