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A. Have you ever first come into contact with someone on the Internet"through a chat room, bulletin board, news group, discussion forum, or other interactive site, or through their Web page"with whom you later established a relationship outside the Internet?
Met someone online who became an offline relationship · Asked in 2 waves, 2000–2002 · 1,464 responses · weighted estimates computed from individual responses
Shares of people who gave an answer. Each column is one wave, evenly spaced rather than to scale in time; hover for exact shares.
Shares of people who gave an answer. A group’s column is left blank in waves where its effective sample is under 50; hover for exact shares.
| Group | Yes | No | n | MoE | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All respondents | 11% | 89% | 722 | ±4 | |
| Protestant | 7% | 93% | 388 | ±6 | |
| Catholic |
| Poll | Field dates | Mode | Respondents | Responses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Social Survey 2002 | 2002-02-06 to 2002-06-26 | face to face | 2,765 | 722 |
| General Social Survey 2000 | 2000-02-01 to 2000-06-25 | face to face | 2,817 | 742 |
| 13% |
| 87% |
| 173 |
| ±9 |
| Jewish † | Too few respondents | – | – | 14 | ±30 |
| Other faith † | Too few respondents | – | – | 24 | ±23 |
| None | 18% | 82% | 117 | ±11 |
General Social Survey 2002 · US adults 18+ living in households (English, and Spanish since 2006). Shares of people who gave an answer. n is unweighted; ± is the 95% margin of error at 50% from the weighted effective sample. Groups with an effective sample under 50 are grayed; under 20, hidden.