The Pew Internet & American Life Project is a non-profit initiative of the Pew Research Center for People and the Press. Pew Internet & American Life Project creates and funds original, academic-quality research that explores the impact of the Internet on children, families, communities, the work place, schools, health care and civic/political life.
The Ever-Shifting Internet Population: A new look at Internet access and the digital divide released April 16, 2003 seeks to address issues of the ever changing online population. This report focuses on several new findings about those who say they do not use the Internet. The digital divide has been a concern of policy makers since the middle of the 1990s when the Internet emerged as a major communications medium and information utility. Concern about the divide centers on arguments that those who do not have access to the Internet are disadvantaged compared to Internet users for a number of reasons.
