The General Social Survey Internet module has some related questions such as - For about how many mins or hrs a week do you use your home computer for each of the following: .. sending or receiveing email .. - same for work computer - same for other computer Then there are questions about how many email messages does the user send and receive from all computers and how many are personal one-on-one vs. sent to/from members of a group/e-list. Then there are separate questions about time spent on the Web NOT email. You can access the GSS data here: http://www.webuse.umd.edu/ . I also collected data about email time vs Web (not email) time in my study. I had a short blurb about this in a piece: "Respondents were asked how much time they spend on the Web each week excluding e-mail use, that is, time spent specifically for browsing information online. Web use ranges from just a few minutes to over 30 hours weekly (see Table 1 for details). About half of the respondents use the Web more than they use e-mail, 18.5 percent use the two types of online services the same amount and the rest do more e-mailing than Web browsing in a typical week." from http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_4/hargittai Eszter --- http://www.eszter.com http://www.esztersblog.com _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Introducing My Way - http://www.myway.com