Mining PEW #3: Internet Access

Perrin, A., & Duggan, M. (2015, June 26). Americans' Internet Access: 2000-2015. Retrieved November 25, 2015, from http://www.pewinternet.org/files/2015/06/2015-06-26_internet-usage-across-demographics-discover_FINAL.pdf

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Without internet, may tasks can become impossible.  Completing a homework assignment, conducting research for a paper, checking available times to a movie, watching streamed movies, the list can on. Internet seems to be a common necessity in many people's lives.  As times have progressed, we have seen a rise in percentage.   Though most of the findings below were predictable, one surprising number was held by the senior citizens.  Though senior citizens lived in an era in which internet was not as popular, slowly they have began to gain interest and determination in keeping up to date with today's innovate-technological sources.  

Additional Findings:
1. Older adults have lagged behind younger adults in their adoption, but now a clear majority (58%) of senior citizens uses the internet.

 2. Those who live in households earning more than $75,000 are more likely to be internet users than those living in households earning less than $30,000.
3. Today, 78% of blacks and 81% of Hispanics use the internet, compared with 85% of whites and 97% of English-speaking Asian Americans.

 4. Those who live in rural areas are less likely than those in the suburbs and urban areas to use the internet. Yet, 78% of rural residents are online.