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Using The Web As A Survey Tool: Results From The Second Www User Survey, James Pitkow, Mimi Recker
Using The Web As A Survey Tool: Results From The Second Www User Survey, James Pitkow, Mimi Recker
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This paper presents the initial results from the second World-Wide Web User Survey, which was advertised and made available to the Web user population for 38 days during October and November 1994. The survey is built on our architecture and Web technologies, which together offer a number of technical and surveying advantages. In particular, our architecture supports the use of adaptive questions, and supports methods for tracking users' responses across different surveys, allowing more in-depth analyses of survey responses. The present survey was composed of three question categories: general demographic questions, browsing usage, and questions for Web information authors. In …