Using the Internet, Decade, Census Bureau reports

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New U.S. Census Bureau, indicates that 62% of households reported by using the Internet at home for growth in 1997, 18% in 2007, the first year, the Bureau collected information about the use of the Internet.(See table 1).

18 individuals and more than sixty-four percent use the Internet from any location in 2007, only 22% of the 2000-2001 in 1997.(See table 2)

Households use the Internet in 2007, 82% of the announced rapid connection and 17% is used for dial-up connection.(See table 1).

"As it is fast access to connections have become more prevalent, so is too people who connect to the Internet at home," said Thom file, Statistician Census Bureau housing and household economic Statistics Division with. "This information gives us a better understanding and access the Internet from. "

The States of Alaska, and New Hampshire residents in the territory in the fastest Internet access from any location (home, work and publicity) 3 and older in 2007. Mississippi and West Virginia was, inter alia, the use of the minimum number of approximately 52%.(See table 3).

The use of the Internet also varied between training and earned a Bachelor's degree from older individuals with 87% reported online from any location in 2007.74% reported in respect of only some of the college, by using the Internet. about half (49%) with only high school diploma declared 19% as compared to those without a high school diploma (or equivalent) by using the Internet.

Internet access also depart from the race and Hispanic origin of, 69% of Whites lived in households of the Internet where the same was 51% of blacks, 73% of the Western Europe and 48% of Hispanics.(See table 2)

In view of the age groups, which uses the Internet the percentage, 18, 34-year-old was more than double (73%), 65 and older (35%). 3-17 Children among the 56% use the Internet.(See table 2)

These figures come from the 2007 Supplement to the use of the Internet and your computer's current Population Survey.

The current Population Survey data was collected in October 2007 for the collection of statistics sampling and nonsampling error. for more information about the data in the source and the confidence interval for the accuracy of the estimates and standard errors, see annex G at .