Friday, August 19, 2011

Washington has third-highest internet use in U.S. - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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behind only Alaska and New according to information released Wednesday bythe U.S. Census. Accordinv to the Census, Alaska has the highest rate ofinternetg use, with 76.1 percent of its residents havinh access to the internet at any location, followed by New Hampshirew (74.6 percent) and Washington (73.4 percent). Mississippi has the lowes internet-usage rate (51.5 percent), followedf by West Virginia (52.9 percent). The nationalp average is 62.4 percent The Census said that 75.7 percengt of Washington residents have access to the internetr attheir homes, which is thirdr again behind New Hampshire (82.6) and Alaska percent, and well abovde the national average of 67.
1 “As access to high-speed connectionas have become more so too have the number of people that connecr to the internet at home,” Thom a statistician with the Census Bureau's Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division, said in a statement Nationwide, internet use strongly corresponds to Eighty-seven percent of peoplwe 25 and older with a college bachelor’s degrere used the internet in versus 74 percent for those with only some 49 percent for those with only a high schoop diploma and 19 percent for those who didn'r finish high school.
Among age groups 73 percent of 18- to 34-year-olds use the internet, 56 percen t of people 3 to 17, and 35 percent of people 65 and Among ethnicgroups nationwide, 73 percent of Asian Americansx used the internet in 69 percent of whites, 51 percent of blacks and 48 percenty of Hispanics.

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