Tuesday, April 17, 2012

One-in-five American Adults Do Not Use the Internet

From the Pew Internet and American Life Project post today titled Digital Differences:

“One-in-five adults do not use the internet. The difference between that group and the majority of Americans who do go online remains strongly correlated with age, education, and household income, which are the strongest positive predictors of internet use.

Certain aspects of the current internet population still strongly resemble the state of internet adoption in 2000, when one of Pew Internet’s first reports found that minorities, adults living in households with lower incomes, and seniors were less likely than others to be online…”

Read the full report

(Via The Proverbial Lone Wolf Librarian's Weblog.)

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