Millennium On Our Mind

STATISTICS

Dollars spent on on-line holiday shopping in 1997: 215 million

Dollars spent on on-line holiday shopping in 1998: 629 million

Percentage of Americans concerned about the Y2K computer bug: 85

Percentage who feel the issue has been overblown: 85

Percentage who will not travel by air that day: 40

Percentage who plan to "go into a cave": 1

Percentage who believe someone or something is hiding the solution to the Y2K crisis: 15

Percentage of those people who believe the White House is hiding the answer: 33

Percentage who think Microsoft is: 60

SOURCES: Greenfield Online Digital Consumer Shopping Index and "The Lowdown on the Countdown" survey; "The Generations@The Millennium," a study conducted by Scudder Kemper Investments Inc.; and Zona Research