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Most online Americans view online shopping as a way to save time and a convenient way to buy products, but most also express discomfort over a key step in online shopping - sending personal or credit card information over the internet, according to a Pew Internet Project survey, writes MarketingCharts.
Specifically, the study found as follows:
See table of online shopping upsides and downsides by income bracket.
The report, titled “Online Shopping: Internet users like the convenience but worry about the security of their financial information,” finds that two-thirds (66 percent) of online Americans have at one time bought a product online.
If online Americans did not have such high levels of concern about sending personal or credit card information over the internet, the report estimates that the share of internet users buying products online could be as much as three percentage points higher, or 69 percent.
Household Income a Factor
Low-income online Americans are most likely to express concerns about providing credit card or personal information online and least likely to see time-savings or convenience in e-commerce:
Online Shoppers More than Double
In broad terms, the report finds, the number of Americans who have ever bought anything online has more than doubled since 2000, from 22 percent in June 2000 to 49 percent in September 2007. That amounts to 66 percent of Americans with internet access who have bought products online. (See chart of 2000-2007 growth.)
People are more likely to do background research on a product than execute the purchase online: Some 60 percent of all Americans say they have used the internet for product-related research in September 2007, up from 35 percent who had done this in June 2000.
Banking and Classifieds
The Pew Internet Project’s September 2007 survey also found increases in the use of the internet for banking and online classified ads:
About the study: The data for this report was gathered through telephone interviews conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates between August 3, 2007 and September 5, 2007, among a sample of 2,400 adults, age 18 and older.
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