Business Reference: Number of New Firms Continues to Slide, According to New...
From the Kauffman Foundation: Building on a long-term trend, the nation’s business startup rate fell below 8 percent for the first time in 2010, marking the lowest point on record for new firm births....
View ArticleYahoo Releases Survey Findings About Americans and Their Tablets
Tablet computers are quickly becoming the tool many use to access the web, play games, and the preferred tool to read ebooks. Here are some new survey results that Yahoo has made available that look at...
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New Statistics from Pew Internet: “Teens & Online Video”
From the Report’s Overview: In a survey of 799 teens conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project between April 19 and July 14, 2011, the teens were asked about a number...
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New Stats: “Cross-Platform Report: How We Watch From Screen to Screen”
The Q4 2011 Cross-Platform Report from Nielsen is now available online. You can register (free) to download the full text. A summary blog post and infographic are also available. Game Consoles Now in...
View ArticleLink Rot: Georgetown Law Library Finds 38 Percent of Online Documents...
From the Georgetown Law School (via Free Government Information): The Georgetown Law Library and members of the Chesapeake Digital Preservation Group have released new data that shows within a...
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New Report from Pew Internet: “Just-In-Time Information Through Mobile...
From the Overview The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project has documented some of the ways that people perform just-in-time services with their cell phones. A new nationally...
View ArticleUpdated Statistics from Nielsen: Mobile Operating System Share & Demographics
From a Nielsen Wire Blog Post: In March 2012, a majority (50.4%) of U.S. mobile subscribers owned smartphones, up from 47.8 percent in December 2011. Consumers purchasing new phones picked smartphones...
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Flurry Reports on Emerging Trends in Mobile Apps: Video Sharing Apps Are Hot!
From a Flurry Blog Post: This report reveals emerging trends in mobile app category usage. By studying how consumer time is shifting across app categories, we provide an early, clear demand signal....
View ArticleUsing Wolfram|Alpha to Access and Analyze Census Data
C. Alan Joyce from Wolfram|Alpha has a terrific post (the first in a series) about using the wonderful computational reference resource to analyze data (comparisons, chart, etc.) from the American...
View ArticleRevised Report: How Much Money Does the U.S. Federal Government Spend on Info...
Many answers (with actual numbers) in the recently revised report embedded below. Title: Federal Government Strategic Sourcing Of Information Products And Services A Report Prepared by the Federal...
View ArticleUpdated Database: College Athletics Finances (2006-2011)
Provided by the USA Today. The data, updated for 2011, are based on the revenue and expense reports collected from more than 225 public schools in the NCAA’s Division I that have an obligation to...
View ArticleFast Facts and Stats About Facebook (May 2012)
As Facebook prepares for its IPO on Friday, Matt Tatham at Experian Hitwise has shared a bunch of fast facts and stats about the social networking powerhouse according to Experian Hitwise Research....
View ArticleReference:16th Edition of the Eurostat Yearbook Released and Now Online
From the News Release The 16th edition of the Eurostat yearbook, published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union [is now available online, PDF version to follow]. The Eurostat...
View ArticleReference: Just Released: U.S. National, State and County Population...
From the U.S. Census: The U.S. Census Bureau today released a set of estimates showing that 50.4 percent of our nation’s population younger than age 1 were minorities as of July 1, 2011. This is up...
View ArticleUpdate: Database Statistics: MEDLINE Citation Counts by Year of Publication
Statistics for 2011 are now available. Years of publication Total # Citations # Citations Published in US % Citations Published in US 2011* 736,191 324,046 44% 2010 828,527 351,484 42% 2009 791,388...
View ArticleGuest Post: Where is the “Big Data” for Libraries? by Matt Weaver
Editors Note Matt Weaver is the Web Librarian at Westlake Porter Public Library (Westlake, Ohio) and a board member for Library Renewal. Matt is also a great friend and supporter of infoDOCKET. For...
View ArticleMary Meeker’s Internet Trends Report 2012 Now Online
This new 112 page report loaded with Internet statistics that might be of interest to you and/or colleagues not to mention its value as a reference resource. Mary Meeker is a partner at Kleiner Perkins...
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New Cisco Forecast Projects the Internet Will Be Four Times as Large (1.3...
From Cisco: Today, Cisco issued results of the annual Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast (2011-2016), the company’s ongoing initiative to forecast and analyze Internet Protocol (IP)...
View ArticleLA Times: Some Teens Aren’t Liking Facebook as Much As Older Users
From the Los Angeles Times: With more than 900 million users, Facebook remains the most popular online hangout. But some young people are turning their attention elsewhere. They are checking out new...
View ArticleJust Released Report from Pew Internet: Twitter Use 2012
From the Report’s Overview: As of February 2012, some 15% of online adults use Twitter, and 8% do so on a typical day. Overall Twitter adoption remains steady, as the 15% of online adults who use...
View ArticleNetflix Surpasses Apple to Take Lead in U.S. Online Movie Business in 2011
From the IHS Suppli Data Announcement: Riding a tidal wave of growth for subscription video on demand (SVOD), Netflix Inc. in 2011 surged past Apple Inc. to become the largest U.S. online movie service...
View ArticleBowker Releases 2011 U.S. Book Publishing Market Statistics & New Book Output...
From Bowker: Bowker [has] released its annual report on U. S. print book publishing for 2011, compiled from its Books In Print database. Based on preliminary figures from U.S. publishers, Bowker is...
View ArticleSurvey Reveals 100% Increase in Publishers Making Double-Digit Annual...
From Aptara and Publishers Weekly: Publishers Weekly (PW) magazine and Aptara announce that initial results from the 4th Annual eBook Survey of Publishers, conducted in April, reveal a 100%...
View ArticleNew Statistics From Scholar One: “Global Publishing: Changes in Submission...
Scholar One is a Thomson Reuters service. The full text white paper is available (free) but requires registration. From a News Release: The ScholarOne Manuscriptsreport, Global Publishing: Changes in...
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New Statistics: Older Adults and Internet Use, 53% of U.S. Seniors Now Using...
Released today by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. From the Overview: As of April 2012, 53% of American adults age 65 and older use the internet or email. Though these adults are still...
View ArticleNew Reference Resource: State-Level Maps and Graphs on Voting From U.S. Census
From the U.S. Census Web Site: The Census Bureau today released a menu-driven, interactive Web page permitting users to access for any state a series of graphs showing percentages of adults who voted...
View ArticleStatistical Survey of IFLA’s Metropolitan Libraries Section 2010, 59...
From the International Federation of Library Associations Web Site: It was compiled by Toronto Public Library on behalf of the Section. There was a record participation from 59 libraries from 25...
View ArticleReference: Digest of Education Statistics 2011 Now Available
Released yesterday by the National Center for Education Statistics. The primary purpose of the Digest of Education Statistics is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad...
View ArticleU.S. Census Releases New Version of OntheMap for Emergency Management...
From a U.S. Census E-Mail: New features in the Census Bureau’s OnTheMap application improve access to workforce and demographic statistics for emergency preparedness, response and recovery activities....
View ArticleNew Report, Statistics: Green and Gold Open Access Percentages and Growth, by...
Title Green and Gold Open Access Percentages and Growth, by Discipline Authors Yassine Gargouri Universite du Quebec a Montreal Vincent Larivière Universite du Quebec a Montreal Yves Gingras Universite...
View ArticleEducation Statistics: NCES Releases New Data on Postsecondary Tuition, Fees...
New online from the National Center for Education Statistics. Title Postsecondary Institutions and Price of Attendance in 2011-12; Degrees and Other Awards Conferred: 2010-11; and 12-Month Enrollment:...
View ArticleReference: Report/Statistics/Infographic: Mobile Phone Access Reaches Three...
From The World Bank: Around three-quarters of the world’s inhabitants now have access to a mobile phone and the mobile communications story is moving to a new level, which is not so much about the...
View ArticleStatistics: Mobile Browsing Share Exceeds 10% for the First Time
From NetMarketShare: For the first time in our sample [NetMarketShare provides usage stats for many Internet services], browsing on mobile devices has exceeded 10% of all browsing. This actually...
View ArticleChildren Borrowing More Books From Japan’s School Libraries & More New...
From Kyodo News Service (via The Japan Times): The number of books checked out by elementary school children from libraries nationwide reached a record average of 26 per child in fiscal 2010, the...
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GenY and Mobile: Cisco Releases Connected World Technology Report 2012
From Cisco: Ninety percent of Gen Y surveyed worldwide said they check their smartphones for updates in email, texts and social media sites, often before they get out of bed, according to the 2012...
View ArticleCenter for Digital Future Publishes at USC Annenberg School Publishes World...
From the Center for Digital Future at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism: The fourth edition of the report features findings on the behavior and views of Internet users and non-users...
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New Report/Infographic Looks at U.S. Consumer Electronics Usage
New from Nielsen. According to Nielsen’s new U.S. Consumer Usage Report 2012, nearly 120 million people within television homes own four or more TV sets, and 16 percent of television homes own a...
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Pew Internet Releases New Report on Library Services (Plus Commentary)
For additional comments, see below. Report Summary by Meredith Schwartz, Library Journal In a new survey from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, One thing that’s clear is...
View ArticlePublic Libraries of New Zealand Release 2012 Statistics, Ebook Downloads...
Wow, quite a day for public library numbers. First, Pew Internet survey findings and then IMLS with a new report. Now, let’s move to New Zealand. From a PLNZ News Release: New Zealanders are...
View ArticleReference Shelf: First Look at Key Demographic Characteristics of New...
From the U.S. Census: For the first time, the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey is providing access to detailed demographic data on congressional districts for the 113th Congress. These...
View ArticleReport: Ontario Public Library Assoc. Child and Youth Services Committee Teen...
Here’s another new report out of Canada. Earlier this week we shared the “National Statistical and Values Profile of Canadian Libraries” published by the Canadian Library Association. Today, a new...
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New From Pew Internet: The Demographics of Social Media Users — 2012
From Pew Internet: A late 2012 survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project shows that young adults are more likely than others to use major social media. At the same time,...
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Fast Facts: China Moves Ahead of U.S. As World’s Largest Smartphone Market
New data from Flurry, a mobile data analytics company. From the Flurry Blog: Just days into the Chinese New Year (Year of the “Snake” for anyone keeping track), China has passed the U.S. to become the...
View ArticleHighlights From The Survey of Academic Library Subject Specialists: Biology &...
Selected findings from a new Primary Research Group report. From the The Survey of Academic Library Subject Specialists: Biology & Medical Sciences Summary Page: This study is based on data from 55...
View ArticleFresno State University: From Laptops to the Reference Desk, “Library Student...
From The Collegian: (Student Newspaper at Fresno St. University) Since its remodel in 2009, The Henry Madden Library has had 4,262,955 students, faculty, and community members walk through its doors,...
View ArticleReport: China’s E-Book Revenues Up 20.5% Annually Since 2012
Note: The following report (via Global Post) from Xinhua, China’s state-run news service. From the Article China’s e-book revenues have grown from 150 million yuan (24.5 million U.S. dollars) in 2006...
View ArticleNew Report: “Who Votes? Congressional Elections and the American Electorate:...
From the U.S. Census: Who Votes? Congressional Elections and the American Electorate: 1978-2014, uses data collected by the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey. This report provides a detailed...
View ArticleAssociation of American Publishers Reports Sales Were “Slow” During First...
From the Association of American Publishers: Publishers’ book sales for the first quarter of the year (Jan – March 2015) were down 6.6% for the year to date at $2.22 billion compared to $2.38 billion...
View ArticleNew Report, Statistics: “Mapping the Digital Divide” (U.S.)
The report (embedded below), Mapping the Digital Divide, was released by the White House Council of Economic Advisers on Wednesday, July 15, 2015. Later that day President Obama announced the launch of...
View ArticleHigher Education (U.S.): New Data Released on Postsecondary Tuition, Fees and...
From the National Center for Education Statistics: Between 2012-13 and 2014-15, the average tuition and required fees at 4-year public institutions (after adjusting for inflation) increased...
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