General Social Survey, 2002

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CATDRCTY Now I'd like to ask you about how you navigate around the Web. How frequently do you use each of the following ways of getting to the web sites you visit: -- Go to a category directory or web guide and select an option?   1) Never   2) Less than half of the time   3) About half of the time   4) More than half of the time   5) Almost always   8) Don't know   9) No answer

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Never	121	33.4%	33.4%	-.74
Less than half of the time	129	35.6%	69.1%	-.37
About half of the time	28	7.7%	76.8%	.01
More than half of the time	17	4.7%	81.5%	.38
Almost always	13	3.6%	85.1%	.76
Don't know	5	1.4%	86.5%	1.88
No answer	49	13.5%	100%	2.26

Variable Comparisons

Race Marital status Age Family income Political ideology Religion Education Sex

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Black	TOTAL
Never	35.5% 107	10.3% 3	33.3% 110
Less than half of the time	34.9% 105	41.4% 12	35.5% 117
About half of the time	6.6% 20	20.7% 6	7.9% 26
More than half of the time	5.0% 15	3.4% 1	4.8% 16
Almost always	2.7% 8	17.2% 5	3.9% 13
Don't know	1.7% 5	0.0% 0	1.5% 5
No answer	13.6% 41	6.9% 2	13.0% 43
TOTAL	100.0% 301	100.0% 29	330

Marital status (I-MARITAL)

	Married	Widowed	Divorced	Separated	Never married	TOTAL
Never	40.7% 68	7.7% 1	18.3% 11	21.4% 3	35.2% 38	33.4% 121
Less than half of the time	29.9% 50	46.2% 6	50.0% 30	21.4% 3	37.0% 40	35.6% 129
About half of the time	6.6% 11	0.0% 0	8.3% 5	7.1% 1	10.2% 11	7.7% 28
More than half of the time	3.6% 6	15.4% 2	5.0% 3	14.3% 2	3.7% 4	4.7% 17
Almost always	3.0% 5	0.0% 0	3.3% 2	7.1% 1	4.6% 5	3.6% 13
Don't know	1.2% 2	0.0% 0	3.3% 2	7.1% 1	0.0% 0	1.4% 5
No answer	15.0% 25	30.8% 4	11.7% 7	21.4% 3	9.3% 10	13.5% 49
TOTAL	100.0% 167	100.0% 13	100.0% 60	100.0% 14	100.0% 108	362

Age (I-AGE)

	18-30	31-44	45-64	65+	TOTAL
Never	44.6% 41	33.9% 39	30.0% 39	8.0% 2	33.4% 121
Less than half of the time	30.4% 28	43.5% 50	32.3% 42	36.0% 9	35.6% 129
About half of the time	7.6% 7	7.0% 8	7.7% 10	12.0% 3	7.7% 28
More than half of the time	3.3% 3	4.3% 5	6.2% 8	4.0% 1	4.7% 17
Almost always	3.3% 3	1.7% 2	6.2% 8	0.0% 0	3.6% 13
Don't know	1.1% 1	0.9% 1	2.3% 3	0.0% 0	1.4% 5
No answer	9.8% 9	8.7% 10	15.4% 20	40.0% 10	13.5% 49
TOTAL	100.0% 92	100.0% 115	100.0% 130	100.0% 25	362

Family income (I-FINCOME)

	Less than $10K	$10K-19,999	$20K-24,999	$25K or over	TOTAL
Never	21.1% 4	25.0% 9	80.0% 12	33.2% 90	33.7% 115
Less than half of the time	31.6% 6	25.0% 9	6.7% 1	39.9% 108	36.4% 124
About half of the time	15.8% 3	8.3% 3	6.7% 1	7.0% 19	7.6% 26
More than half of the time	5.3% 1	11.1% 4	0.0% 0	3.7% 10	4.4% 15
Almost always	5.3% 1	11.1% 4	0.0% 0	3.0% 8	3.8% 13
Don't know	5.3% 1	2.8% 1	0.0% 0	0.7% 2	1.2% 4
No answer	15.8% 3	16.7% 6	6.7% 1	12.5% 34	12.9% 44
TOTAL	100.0% 19	100.0% 36	100.0% 15	100.0% 271	341

Political ideology (I-POLITICS)

	Liberal	Moderate, middle of the road	Conservative	Don't know	TOTAL
Never	43.2% 48	27.2% 37	31.1% 33	37.5% 3	33.5% 121
Less than half of the time	33.3% 37	36.0% 49	38.7% 41	12.5% 1	35.5% 128
About half of the time	5.4% 6	8.1% 11	9.4% 10	12.5% 1	7.8% 28
More than half of the time	5.4% 6	4.4% 6	4.7% 5	0.0% 0	4.7% 17
Almost always	2.7% 3	2.9% 4	5.7% 6	0.0% 0	3.6% 13
Don't know	0.9% 1	2.2% 3	0.9% 1	0.0% 0	1.4% 5
No answer	9.0% 10	19.1% 26	9.4% 10	37.5% 3	13.6% 49
TOTAL	100.0% 111	100.0% 136	100.0% 106	100.0% 8	361

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	None	Other	Don't know	TOTAL
Never	32.7% 50	33.7% 32	44.4% 4	38.8% 26	25.0% 9	0.00% 0	33.6% 121
Less than half of the time	36.6% 56	34.7% 33	33.3% 3	34.3% 23	38.9% 14	0.00% 0	35.8% 129
About half of the time	9.8% 15	4.2% 4	0.0% 0	7.5% 5	11.1% 4	0.00% 0	7.8% 28
More than half of the time	2.6% 4	6.3% 6	0.0% 0	6.0% 4	5.6% 2	0.00% 0	4.4% 16
Almost always	3.3% 5	5.3% 5	0.0% 0	4.5% 3	0.0% 0	0.00% 0	3.6% 13
Don't know	0.7% 1	2.1% 2	0.0% 0	3.0% 2	0.0% 0	0.00% 0	1.4% 5
No answer	14.4% 22	13.7% 13	22.2% 2	6.0% 4	19.4% 7	0.00% 0	13.3% 48
TOTAL	100.0% 153	100.0% 95	100.0% 9	100.0% 67	100.0% 36	100.0% 0	360

Education (I-EDUC)

	Less than high school	High school	Associate/Junior college	Bachelor's	Graduate	TOTAL
Never	35.3% 6	32.6% 60	41.9% 13	34.7% 26	29.6% 16	33.5% 121
Less than half of the time	23.5% 4	28.3% 52	41.9% 13	48.0% 36	44.4% 24	35.7% 129
About half of the time	23.5% 4	7.6% 14	9.7% 3	5.3% 4	5.6% 3	7.8% 28
More than half of the time	0.0% 0	7.1% 13	3.2% 1	2.7% 2	1.9% 1	4.7% 17
Almost always	5.9% 1	4.9% 9	3.2% 1	0.0% 0	3.7% 2	3.6% 13
Don't know	0.0% 0	1.6% 3	0.0% 0	1.3% 1	1.9% 1	1.4% 5
No answer	11.8% 2	17.9% 33	0.0% 0	8.0% 6	13.0% 7	13.3% 48
TOTAL	100.0% 17	100.0% 184	100.0% 31	100.0% 75	100.0% 54	361

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Never	38.2% 76	27.6% 45	33.4% 121
Less than half of the time	35.7% 71	35.6% 58	35.6% 129
About half of the time	7.0% 14	8.6% 14	7.7% 28
More than half of the time	2.0% 4	8.0% 13	4.7% 17
Almost always	3.0% 6	4.3% 7	3.6% 13
Don't know	1.5% 3	1.2% 2	1.4% 5
No answer	12.6% 25	14.7% 24	13.5% 49
TOTAL	100.0% 199	100.0% 163	362