Online dating users and online daters are used interchangeably throughout this analysis to refer to those who have ever used a dating site or app. Here are the questions used for this analysis, along with responses, and its methodology. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S.
It also included an oversample of 1,038 respondents from Ipsos’ KnowledgePanel. This included 4,996 respondents from the Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses. adults ages 18 and older from July 5 to 17, 2022.
Pew Research Center conducted this analysis to understand how Americans ages 50 and older experience dating sites and apps and their views of online dating generally.