Study Publisher: Pew Research Center
Study Date: January 26 2017
Study URL: http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2017/01/26102016/Americans-and-Cyber-Security-final.pdf

Study Overview:
"The analysis in this report is based on a Pew Research Center survey conducted from March 30 to May 3, 2016, among a national sample of 1,040 adults, 18 years of age or older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. Fully 262 respondents were interviewed on landline telephones, and 778 were interviewed on cellphones, including 477 who had no landline telephone. The margin of sampling error for the complete set of weighted data is ±3.4 percentage points. The survey was conducted by interviewers at Princeton Data Source under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International."

Statistics From This Study:

• Do Americans ever share online account passwords?
• Do Americans ever use less secure passwords to make them easier to remember?
• Do Americans ever worry about how secure their online passwords are?
• Do Americans have a hard time keeping track of their online passwords?
• Do Americans use 2FA or 2SV for any of their online accounts?
• Do Americans use an authentication lock on their smartphones?
• Have Americans ever had their email or social media accounts taken over?
• How similar are the passwords used at different sites by Americans?
• What are the different methods Americans use to keep track of their passwords?
• What authentication feature do Americans use to unlock their smartphone?
• What is the primary method Americans use to keep track of their passwords?