This past April, Social Science Research Solutions surveyed 1,014 Americans about their cellphone use. The following is their findings.
Do you answer cellphone calls ...
| Yes | 18-49 |
50+ |
Total |
| At movie theaters | 15% | 4% | 11% |
| In restaurants |
69% | 45% | 59% |
| At live performances (concerts, theater, etc.) |
24% | 6% | 17% |
| At religious services |
6% | 3% | 5% |
| In store checkout lines |
64% | 44% | 56% |
| In fast-food order lines |
60% | 37% | 51% |
| In restrooms | 50% | 32% | 42% |
| On public transportation | 68% | 35% | 55% |
Do you use your cellphone while driving?
| 18-49 | 50+ | Total | |
| Yes | 53% | 29% | 44% |
| No | 46% | 71% | 56% |
Do you text while driving?
| 18-49 | 50+ | Total | |
| Yes | 16% | 1% | 10% |
| No | 84% | 98% | 90% |
Do you favor or oppose allowing cellphone use on commercial airline flights?
| 18-49 | 50+ | Total | |
| Favor | 43% | 36% | 40% |
| Oppose | 45% | 47% | 46% |
| Don't know/refused | 12% | 17% | 13% |
What is your level of tolerance when you encounter the following?
(responded “very annoying”)
| 18-49 | 50+ | Total |
||
| Someone talking loudly on cellphone in public places | 50% | 61% | 55% | |
| Someone interrupting a conversation to take a call | 34% | 42% | 37% | |
| Ringing cellphone in a theater, library, meeting, etc | 66% | 75% | 70% | |
| Someone driving and talking on a cellphone |
45% | 59% | 51% | |
| Someone texting while talking with you | 42% | 61% | 50% |
Survey of 1,014 adults age 18 and older conducted by SSRS April 14-21, 2010.
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