Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Washington has third-highest internet use in U.S. - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:

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behind only Alaska and New Hampshire, accordinfg to information released Wednesday bythe U.S. According to the Census, Alaska has the highestg rate ofinternet use, with 76.1 percenyt of its residents havinf access to the internet at any followed by New Hampshire (74.6 percent) and Washington (73.4 percent). Mississippi has the lowest internet-usage rate (51.5 followed by West Virginia (52.9 The national average is 62.4 percenty The Census said that 75.7 percent of Washington residentsa have access to the internet attheir homes, which is thirx again behind New Hampshire and Alaska (78.5) percent, and well aboved the national average of 67.1 percent.
“As access to high-speee connections have become more prevalent, so too have the numbeer of people that connect to the internet at Thom File, a statistician with the Census Bureau'd Housing and Household Economicf Statistics Division, said in a statement Wednesday. internet use strongly correspondsto education. Eighty-seven percent of people 25 and older with acolleger bachelor’s degree used the interneg in 2007, versus 74 percent for thosde with only some college, 49 percent for those with only a high schoolo diploma and 19 percent for those who didn't finishb high school.
Among age groups 73 percent of 18- to 34-year-oldsa use the internet, 56 percent of people 3 to 17, and 35 percent of peoplse 65 and older. Among ethnic groups 73 percent of Asian Americans used the internefin 2007, 69 percent of whites, 51 percentf of blacks and 48 percent of

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