Twitter Usage In America: 2010

Twitter Usage In America: 2010 is a new report derived from the Edison Research/Arbitron Internet and Multimedia Series. This study presents three years of tracking data from a nationally representative telephone survey (via landline and mobile phone) of 1,753 Americans, and was conducted in February 2010.
This report details new data on the awareness and usage of Twitter, along with user demographics, status updating behaviors, brand following activity and even an early look at location-based social networking. The study was originally presented on Thursday, April 29th, in an online presentation.

The Social Habit - Frequent Social Networkers

Social Networking has exploded in popularity over the past two years, with the percentage of Americans maintaining a profile page on one or more social sites doubling from 24% in 2008 to 48% in 2010. Even more remarkably, as social networking has entered the mainstream, it has also quickly become not just an occasional diversion but a habitual part of American life. In 2009, 18% of social networkers in America checked their sites and services several times a day. Just one year later, this figure stands at 30%, even as the total number of social networkers has grown. With both numbers growing dramatically, the actual number of Americans with "the social habit," who check their social media sites multiple times per day, has more than doubled, from approximately 18 million to 39 million.

This new report, based upon the 18th Edison Research/Arbitron Internet and Multimedia Research Series, examines these habitual social networkers, providing information on dempgraphics, status updating behaviors, mobile access and how social media has affected their consumption of other media. The data is based upon a nationally representative telephone survey of 1,753 Americans (including 371 mobile phone interviews) ages 12+ conducted in February, 2010.

Performance Evaluation of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

During the period 2004-2009 SBY government, the level of public satisfaction on the performance of SBY has fluctuated, from 80 percent in late 2004 and continued to fall until it reaches 45 percent in June 2008 when Yudhoyono to raise fuel prices a third time. Public satisfaction SBY lucky to have rebounded after September 2008. SBY positive trends on the performance of this election season continues until the year 2009. This is what explains why the Democratic Party, founded SBY experienced electoral surge, almost three times than Election 2004. This also explains why SBY with easy win in one round in the Presidential Election in July 2009. This positive trend continued post-election and reached 84 percent in September 2009. Source of satisfaction is a positive assessment of the people against the government's performance continues to increase almost every sector that is felt urgently by the people. In fact, public satisfaction towards SBY economic performance also increased. SBY performance only in the field of law enforcement with a decrease in the public eye.

The Kaiser Family Foundation Health Insurance Survey

The Kaiser Family Foundation Health Insurance Survey was designed and analyzed by researchers at the Kaiser Family Foundation. Fieldwork was conducted by telephone by Princeton Survey Research Associates between April 30 and July 20, 2003, among a sample of 2,507 respondents ages 18 to 64 years.  The sample includes 2,042 respondents who are covered by health insurance (including 1,542 who are insured through an employer and 152 who purchase their own insurance), and 457 uninsured respondents. Results for all groups have been weighted to reflect the actual distribution in the nation.
The margin of sampling error for the survey is plus or minus 2 percentage points for total respondents; for respondents with health insurance it is plus or minus 2 percentage points; for respondents insured through an employer it is plus or minus 3 percentage points; for respondents who purchase their own insurance it is plus or minus 9 percentage points; and for uninsured respondents it is plus or minus 5 percentage points. For results based on subsets of respondents the margin of error is higher. Note that sampling error is only one of many potential sources of error in this or any other public opinion poll. Click this link for further details.

2009 Small Business Credit Card Survey

The NSBA 2009 Small Business Credit Card Survey provides a detailed view of how small businesses are utilizing their credit cards, how their credit-card companies are treating them, and the impacts of deteriorating credit-card terms on their business. Additionally, the survey provides valuable trending data from NSBA's 2008 Economic Reports.

Small business credit-card usage is on the rise. When asked in December 2008, 49 percent reported using credit cards in the past 12 months to finance their firms. In late- April, however, that number jumped to 59 percent. This increase is occurring despite a rise in the number of small businesses reporting worsening credit-card terms. Asked to evaluate their credit-card terms over the last five years, 79 percent reported worsening terms—up from 69 percent in December 2008. Even more eye-opening: when asked if their credit-card terms had worsened in the last six months, a whopping 75 percent reported that they had.
Source of this article: 2009 Small Business Credit Card Survey